so it goes like this

Everest

Ever would have followed Mateo up a tree if that's what his friend decided, such were his pack instincts at that moment. Nearly glued to the boy's heels and with his tail so far underneath his own body it almost tickled his chest, Ever hastily scampers this way.

For their part, the magna vermis are content to let this interruption to their sunbasking go without retaliation, and though it takes longer for the toothy one to lay back down, it does eventually sink back into the mud.

Gripped by flashbacks of the time he and Paige had been chased by a molten tiger, Ever is enthusiastic in his panic. Whimpering between puffs of air and feeling his coordination begin to decline with his energy levels, the shepherd warbles a sound that's halfway between a whine and a bark, which he intends to mean, I'm not sure how much farther I can go, but probably sounds like he's chocking on something.

If I told you that you'd do nothing with it
I'd still be that cigarette that you couldn't finish