"Imma so take you up on that!" Which found a spoon which did not belong to Teresa nonetheless poking around in Teresa's cake. "An yeah, 's real fun mosta the time. Not like people's minds ever bug me anymore at this point, but I... ah..."

Zephyr licked his lips after any stray icing, and found none. More than that, he really had talked himself into something of a corner, and not so much what Teresa had asked; left her there now, wondering.

Well, wasn't going to matter if he just told her. "I get lonesome kinda easy."