Chapter 458: Daphne
I walk around with Lyra wrapped around my neck. She was hunting a rabbit, missed it, slammed her head into the ground, and broke her fang.
Her tooth.
It came out.
So she was crying, and in pain. My poor baby. Though I know she is crying more from embarrassment than pain.
"It is okay," I comfort her, patting her back. "It is normal. It will grow back."
"But then I will have to walk around with a gap!"
"No one will care."
"That is not true!" She wails. "Uncle Eric laughed. I saw Grandpa try not to by masking it with a cough."
I bite the inside of my cheek.
"They just thought you looked cute."
"I do not want to be cute." Her voice is muffled against my neck. "I want to be scary and big like you."
My heart has a fuzzy feeling. A warm, spreading sensation that starts in my chest and radiates outward. She wants to be like me. She wants to be scary and big like me.
"You are still very scary," I say.
"Not with a missing toof!" She hugs my neck tighter.
