“GRROWLLL!”
“What the?! — oh, hi Ben. You scared me you joker. I thought Eloise over there had come back to life!”
“GRROWLLL!”
“Yeah, I know. You’re probably starving. Been gone for 2 days. Where’ve you been… Ben, he he?”
“GRROWLL?”
“Well come on in and tell me all about it, then. We’ll eat breakfast and share stories. Because *I’ve* got something to tell *you* too, something you won’t believe.”
—–
“I don’t blame you, Ben. I don’t want to get too close to it either.”
“GRRRRROWWWWL!”
“I know. I’m scared too.”