"I can see that." Deuteronomy lifted a furry brow and kept grinning her wolf grin. "I'm Deuteronomy. Everyone calls me Deuteronomy because I like to inconvenience people."

She was a four-legged creature that went through the trouble of learning to speak and by God everyone else was going to call her by her full name if she could say it. She climbed the rest of the way onto the porch and shoved the bag off over her head.

"So you're the reason sourpuss here's started whistling all of the sudden."

"Don't you have somewhere to be?" JW stuck his neck out and grit his teeth. His ears were turning red--somehow they hadn't during the whole trip uphill.