5.
Hero Worship
With
one leg in the freezer you'll never be cool.
The lazy cigarette smoke of comrades passes between them. Both lean over the railing.
Kazuma shifts under his jacket, breaking the companionable silence.
"Cougar?"
"Yeah, kid?"
An easy grin breaks over canine lips. "You're a pretty cool cat."
A chuckle. Cougar blows a stream of smoke and half-turns to face his surrogate little brother.
"Kazuma?"
"Yeah?"
He places a larger hand on the tousled head of auburn and gold, grinning. "I'm your hero."
. . .Well damn.