Stelze did not take her eyes off him. At one stage she tried to hum a song she
heard once on her master's radio. She thought that would comfort ไพเรท. But
บุดดา was yelling down from the roof top:
“Hey, mate! Your howling gives me the shivers. Are you trying to scare us
all to death?”
So she stopped humming and instead licked ไพเรท feathers clean, gently
and carefully.
“How is he doing?” all of a sudden Hoover asked.