Snippet #1369190

Minnie came back inside after August came out of the woods, in his wolf form. She went into the kitchen and sat down at the table next to Luke and Autumn, who were both already eating. She would've told them to wait for the others but they both seemed pretty hungry and they'd already started anything. Still, Minnie waited for Dan to appear in the doorway before eating.

"Hi Dan!" she greeted him perkily and then placed a single piece of french toast and a few scoops of eggs onto her plate. She began eating, listening silently to Hope and Dan discuss using Dan's phone to call her family.

Minnie polietly waited until Dan was done talking to begin her usual chatter. "Isn't this breakfast great? Hope and I made most of it. But Autumn helped set the table. Wasn't that sweet of them to help me out? It would've taken forever for me to make all this food by myself! So where's Gilthanas and Tori? They still sleeping? August and Emily are outside. I hope that's alright. Emily wanted to go out and I know you said they weren't allowed outside alone . . . So I told August to go with her. They're both fine. Emily was just playing soccer and August was in his wolf form just screwing around. I just called them to come and eat. They should be here soon. Emily has to put her sports stuff away and August has to change back. Oh - here's August."

She watched August walk in, noting the submissive way that he greeted Dan and the tolerant way he greeted Luke. Minnie could tell he was trying to behave himself, which wasn't something he did on a regular basis. She wondered if it had anything to do with last night . . .

He came and sat down next to her, piling food onto his plate. "Hi Auggie!" she chirped.
She noticed that his hair was all messed up, from shifting and running through the woods, she assumed. She gingerly reached out and grabbed a small brown leaf from his hair and showed it to him. "You have leaves in your hair," she giggled.

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Luke really wasn't paying attention to most of what was going on in the kitchen. Lots of talking - most of which came from Minnie. He caught something Hope said about using Dan's phone. Luke lowered his eyes at that - hoping Dan wouldn't ask him if he wanted to call his dad, which he defienetly didn't want to do. He looked up when he heard his name, surprised that it had been August to say it. August seemed very . . . reserved for some reason.

"Morning," Luke mumbled in response, keeping his eyes trained on his food as he ate, tuning everybody out. He could hear Minnie giggling over something, but ignored that too.