❝ they’re cute now ... but they become quite the handful when they’ve matured. -- which isn’t to say that they aren’t already hand-fulls now.
the fondness in his words brought out the softness in a smile as eyes glued to the small reptiles bouncing around the room, wrestling, or sleeping against a nook. almost a year already since the eldest one ( much too big to simply walk inside the house ) had hatched from the jagged egg it had come from. a few months since the youngest had joined their tight little family &. not once had he ever regretted taking in every single one of them. arms crossed &. features of gentle attention were pasted over the sharpness of his usual expression. a short OOF pushed from his lips as head suddenly rammed into his shin followed by the whine of need that he was oh so used to.
@edgid