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Apakk growled at Snapper, and Snapper tried biting the growing adolescent red's nose.

"Not nice!" Apakk screeched. Her vocabulary had grown quite a bit over the last few weeks, mostly due to Snapper's interference. "Stop it! Pylori! Make him stop!"

After all the effort that Apakk went through to get her little nest ready, Snapper seemed apt to get her to destroy it.

"Snapper," Pylori warned, "now's not the time. Apakk is concentrating." Snapper hissed, and flew up to the rafter of the den. "That's a good baiton... Now, Apakk, what have you got for me?"

"I made flat reeds. I will want them warm. Should I burn them?" She made ready to try huffing at the pile of long dry reeds, but Pylori waved at her.

"No, no, that's probably not the best idea. You like it warm... I think we can find some hot rocks or something..."

"Sometimes I want to lay on Snapper," Apakk warned, looking up at the baiton which was ready to drop onto her back from above, "because he is always warm."

Pylori snorted and laughed, and leaned back. He got a message that his father Virus had bonded elsewhere, at a fantastic volcanic place.

"I bet you'd like it there, Apakk," he said while looking at the image of Ring of Fire.

"It burns?"

"It sure does..."

"Then some day we will go there, won't we?"

"Or some place like it, yeah. I think so!"