   "Silverton Control, this is Beechcraft Sundowner November Mouse eight-eight-six-eight, altitude two thousand, heading three fiver zero. Request permission to land and info on what the wind is doing down there and how the airstrip is holding up."
   "Beech eight-six-eight, cleared to land. Wind is due northwest, eleven knots gusting to fourteen, visibility a half mile. Strip is soggy but the gravel is holding up well. Take a heading three fiver fiver and descend to altitude one-two hundred, land at your discretion."
   "Beech eight-six-eight, heading three fiver fiver at one-two hundred, roger. Thank you, Silverton. I'm coming in."
   "Roger, Beech eight-six-eight. You're back early, Minty."
   "Yeah, have you [i]seen[/i] the weather? It's just as bad up here as it is down there, you know."
A soft chuckle crackled through the radio at that un-regulatory reply.
   "Roger, Minty. Be careful when you bring her in, alright? Frank reported sudden wind gusts from the west when coming down past the trees."
   "Roger, thank you, Silverton. I'm coming in now, passing below one-two hundred now."

An acknowledgement came through the radio as the light green mouse piloted her small green airplane down through the sour weather towards the gravel airstrip of Silverton Airfield. It was such a shame; Minty had been looking forward to having a nice flight that day, but only twenty minutes after she had taken off the weather had completely turned around from slightly overcast but sunny to completely clouded over with hard wind and rain. The sudden and quite bad weather had forced the green mouse to break off her leisurely flight and turn back to the airfield, facing a dull day indoors instead. Minty didn't even know what she might do once she was back on the ground - she had pretty much expected to be out in her plane most of the day, she had even emailed a basic flight plan to the airport in Portland where she used to hangar her plane when she still lived in Portland, having planned to at least stop by there and perhaps catch up with an old friend or two. Well, at least that was something she could and even should do once she was back on the ground again; get in touch with the Portland airport and inform them her plans had been canceled due to the weather.

The wind buffeted the little plane as Minty brought it down towards the airstrip, pushing it off towards the right a bit. Minty compensated, making a slightly rougher than usual landing on the soggy gravel strip and rolling her plane right off the end of the strip and towards the large hangar where she stored her plane. Having mentioned through her radio that she was coming into the hangar right after landing, the large doors of the building were already opened as Minty rolled her plane towards it, and, after the cheetah man who had opened the doors had stepped out of the way, into it. After she had stopped her plane and shut off the engine, and with the help of a few other people present in the hangar had rolled her plane backwards into its parking spot, the green mouse took some time to dry off her little plane as best as she could with an old sheet, somewhat to the amusement of the other people present.
   "Not much of a pleasant weather we got, Minty, huh?" the cheetah man who had opened the hangar doors for Minty, and had closed them after her again, remarked as he stepped over to where the green mouse was drying off her plane.
   "No, it pretty much sucks," Minty agreed. "Quite sudden turnaround too; one moment it was nice, next moment it's like I'd flown into a thundercloud." She started folding up the sheet as best as she could. "And I had hoped to make it to Portland at least and see some old friends of mine again, bleh."
   "Tell me about it," the cheetah man nodded. "I was gonna go to Arlington, take my nephew out for a flight, but with this weather..." He shrugged. "It's just not done, too dangerous to even get to Arlington, let alone to fly around with a kid in your plane."
   "Yeah," Minty nodded, stowing the sheet into her locker. "I'm sorry for your nephew though, Frank. He'll probably be quite disappointed."
   "No doubt, he was looking forward to it. Ah well, but safety is more important, and we can always go fly around another time after all," Frank said.
Minty nodded again.
   "Absolutely." She stretched. "Well, I guess I better go and call Portland to tell them they can dump my flight plan in the waste bin, and then... I don't know, go home and stare at the raindrops dripping down my windows or something, I guess."
   "Sounds like fun," Frank sniggered. "Well, have a good day, Minty, or at least as good a day as you could have with all that crap outside."
   "Yeah, thanks Frank, you too," Minty said with a light giggle.

She waved and took her log book, walking into the small cantina that had been built onto the back of the building so she could make her phonecall to the Portland airport and inform them of her canceled plans. With that done, the green mouse got herself a can of 7Up from the soda machine and sat down at one of the tables to write down the disappointing progress of the day and her flight into her log book. Finishing the last of her can of 7Up on her way back into the hangar and towards her locker, Minty put her log book in her locker and took out her jacket and handbag instead, putting on her jacket and fishing her car keys from her bag to have them at the ready the moment she reached her car.

As she exited the hangar through the smaller door, the green mouse made a mad dash for the parking spaces where her old, rusty mint green and white 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible was standing rather forlorn between the other cars in the drenching rain. She shielded herself with her handbag a bit while she unlocked the driver's door so she could dive into the shelter of her car, quickly slamming the door shut behind her again. Starting the engine, Minty backed out of the parking spaces and slowly made her way off the airfield and down the road to get back home.

Blehh, what a lousy weather. The rain rumbled heavily on the waterproof linen roof of her old convertible, which proved to not be so very waterproof anymore in a small spot or two. Minty was forced to drive even more slowly and carefully than usual as the rain increased even more, causing the old little windshield wipers of her car to have a serious struggle keeping the windscreen transparent enough to see through. The road was pretty hazardous too, especially with this weather; Bush Creek Drive had an embankment along the right side which ran over into the hillside above, and it was known that during torrential rains, some of the trees on the hillside literally got the ground washed away from beneath their roots and toppled over onto the road. Now it was true that this rain, although bad, could hardly be called torrential, but one could never know, and Minty was rather safe than sorry. All the while as she drove down the road, she kept one eye pealed to the side a bit, at the embankment, to see if there was any danger coming from there. Luckily there was almost no other traffic on the road.

Despite the really lousy weather, Minty tried to make as good time as she could in getting back to her little house in Amity. Now that her day had been pretty much thrown out the window anyway, she was eager to get back home and out of the bad weather. Have a lovely long soak in a hot bath, and then... who knows, maybe call Dusty, see what she and Fifi were doing or something. Or perhaps...

All of a sudden, Minty snapped her head up and stared through the watery windshield at the embankment up ahead. What was that?! Something was tumbling down along the hillside... a rock? A bush? An old box? Minty already had her foot off the accelerator, and as the thing she had spotted landed on the road ahead, the green mouse shrieked. It was a girl! In a reflex, Minty stamped the brakes and yanked the wheel to the left, pressing herself back into the driver's seat with her arms and legs stretched out. The old car lurched from the sudden inputs, swerving, then sliding half sideways across the road. Minty shrieked again and shuddered when the car came to a stop and she heard, and even slightly felt, a thump against the passenger's side.

For several heart-stopping moments, Minty sat rigid, squeaking to herself with her paws over her muzzle and her eyes wide.
   "Ohmigosh, ohmigoshohmigoshohmigoshohmigoshhhhh! I hit her! I hit her, I hit herrrrr! Oh no, oh no, what do I do, what do I do, what do I dooooo!"
In a sudden flash, she knew. Check to see if the poor girl was alright of course!

Jumping out of her car, Minty darted around the front of it towards the passenger's side, slipping and sliding a bit on the wet road. As she reached the passenger's side of her car, she stopped dead again and gasped. That was just a young girl too! A cat, by the looks of it, with light beige and white fur and strangely clear pink hair and a clear pink, fluffy but rather raggedy tail, dressed in tattered, muddy clothes. And she couldn't be very much more than twelve, thirteen years old! But... Minty breathed a sigh of relief when the girl stirred and groaned as she tried to scramble back up. Oh thank heavens, she was alive!

In one single step, Minty was next to the girl, kneeling down and helping the small, bedraggled feline to sit up and lean against the side of her car. She gently brushed some of the soggy pink hair from the girl's face with her fingers, noticing, in passing, how the girl had strangely colored fingers and toes as well; one both feet, she had a coral-colored big toe, then a white toe, then a coral-colored toe again and the last toe was white again. Similarly, on both her paws, her thumbs, middle fingers and pinky fingers were coral-colored while her pointer finger and ring finger were white.
   "Ohmigosh, ohmigosh, are you okay?" she squeaked.
The small feline girl rubbed a paw over her head and face, blinking a couple of times and breathing deeply.
   "I... think so? I... I fell, I think... it was muddy and I slipped and... it was steep and slippery, I couldn't get a hold, and..." She looked up at Minty with groggy but strikingly deep orange eyes. "What happened?"
   "I saw you tumble down the hillside," Minty said, still trembling. "You landed on the road, and I think I just hit you with my car. Are you sure you're okay? Are you hurt?"
   "Oh... oh," the girl said softly. "Hurt... I dunno." She tried to get up again. "Everything hurts."
   "Ohh, here, sit down, don't move, don't move," Minty urged. "Try and relax, let me look at you and see if you have any injuries."

She started to examine the girl as best as she could. What she found made her breathe another sigh of relief, however; at first glance, there were no serious injuries. Minty found a graze on the side of the girl's head and some on her knees and paws, and a lot of small cuts and scrapes and bruises, most likely from tumbling down the hillside through the undergrowth. The girl underwent it all rather sullenly, keeping her eyes cast down, her ears folded against her head and the tip of her pink tail flicking and twitching continuously. Only when Minty asked her something, she looked up a bit again.
   "What?"
   "I said, what's your name?" Minty repeated.
   "Sophia."
   "Sophia? That's a nice name," Minty smiled. "My name is Minty. How old are you, Sophia?"
   "Twelve."
   "I see. Where do you live?"
   "What's it to you?" the feline girl answered with a smirk.
Minty blinked for a moment.
   "Well, I have to know, don't I? Your family must be worried about you, I should let them know you're alright. So won't you tell me where you live, please?"
   "Hmf. Foster home," Sophia huffed. She ducked away from Minty's paws and struggled to her feet. "And I ain't going back there!"
   "Easy, easy Sophia, easy," Minty urged, rising to her feet as well. "I don't think you broke anything, but still be careful, okay?" She gently lay a paw on the girl's shoulder. "I take it you don't like it at that foster home?"
   "No," Sophia growled, shaking Minty's paw off her shoulder. "I ain't going back there, you hear!"

She tried to walk away, but didn't even make it two steps before she buckled and almost collapsed onto the road again. Minty quickly dashed up to her and helped her back up, supporting the young feline and letting her lean against the car again.
   "Eep, careful now dearie," she squeaked. "Looks like you twisted your ankle pretty bad, and you bruised your knees. Do you have a headache? Any dizziness?"
Sophia shook her head, wiping some rain off her face with a paw.
   "No."
   "Good, that's good," Minty nodded. "Now, take it easy, okay? Won't you have a seat in my car?"
   "Why?" Sophia smirked. "You'll just take me back to that stupid foster home, or to the police and they take me back there, or to a doctor and they take me back there." She tried to walk away again. "And I'm [i]not[/i] going back!"
Minty quickly caught the feline girl before she could fall over again.
   "Take it easy now, Sophia." She lay both her paws on the girl's shoulders and looked straight at her. "Would you listen to me for a moment? I won't take you back to that foster home, I won't take you to the police, I won't even take you to a doctor. You just have some scrapes and bruises and a twisted ankle, nothing a doctor needs to look at. But from the look of you, you must have been wandering about for quite a while already, so you must be starving by now, you're soaked through and muddy and covered in cuts and scrapes, and your clothes are a mess. So what I'll do is, I'll take you to my home so you can have a nice warm bath, get into some dry clothes and get something to eat. Does that sound good enough for you?"

The small feline girl glared at Minty for a bit while she leaned against the car, with her ears folded down against her head and twitching her whiskers and the tip of her tail in an agitated manner. Then she lowered her head a bit and huffed.
   "Fine." She set her glaring orange eyes upon Minty's face again. "But I don't wanna go back to that stupid foster home!"
   "I won't take you there or to any authorities that would take you back there, I promise," Minty said, supporting the girl by an arm and opening the passenger door of her old convertible. "Now, go on, have a seat, try to get as comfortable as you can, okay? I live in Amity, that's a little over a half hour's drive."

Sophia huffed again, but she did get into Minty's car and sank down on the passenger's seat, huddling down a bit and crossing her arms over her chest. With a light smile, Minty closed the passenger door and walked around the car to get back in behind the wheel herself. Backing up a bit, she put her car straight on the road again and continued her way, every now and then looking aside at the young feline girl in the seat next to her.

They sat in silence for a while, save for the rumbling of the rain on the car, the noise of the engine and the repetitive squeak of the left windshield wiper as it moved back and forth across the glass. As Minty drove into the town of Salem, the young cat seemed to tense up a bit, but she relaxed again when Minty simply continued her way through town and out of it at the other side again. Only after they had passed through Salem and drove down the road alongside the Willamette River, Sophia eventually spoke up.
   "No music?
   "The radio is busted, happened a little while ago and I haven't managed to find a replacement yet," Minty said with a smile. "It's a very old car after all." She looked aside for a moment again. "So tell me a little something about yourself, Sophia. What's your last name?"
The young cat huffed and mumbled something inaudible while staring straight ahead of her, causing Minty to quirk an eyebrow in wonder.
   "What was that?" Sophia mumbled something inaudible again, and Minty shook her head. "I'm sorry, Sophia, but I really didn't catch that."
   "Darling, okay?!" the little feline suddenly blurted out. "My last name is Darling! Happy now?"
She was obviously very much not amused with her last name, and Minty did her very best not to giggle.
   "I see. Well Sophia, my name is Mindy Verde, but everyone has always called me Minty Mouse, from... well, when I was about your age on already, actually. I quite liked the name, and it stuck, so everyone at work and all my friends and such know me as Minty Mouse. I only use my actual real name for official things like my bank and my tax forms and such, but for the rest, to the world, I'm Minty Mouse."
   "Oh. That's... cute, I guess," Sophia said, looking aside for a moment but turning her gaze back at the windshield when she saw Minty looking back at her.
   "Well, thank you, dear," Minty smiled. "So, where do you come from, if you don't mind my asking? As far as I know, there's no orphanages around Silverton, are there?"
   "It was no orphanage," Sophia huffed. "It was a stupid foster home, in Salem."
   "Goodness, then how did you get all the way out there near Silverton?" Minty said with surprise and a hint of shock.
   "Walked," Sophia shrugged.
   "You walked all the way from Salem to Silverton?" Minty said, now with a clearer hint of shock in her voice. "Goodness dear, how long have you been out there?"
   "I dunno. Couple days I guess."
   "Heavens!" Minty squeaked, shaking her head a bit. "Was it that bad in that foster home?"
   "Yeah," Sophia huffed shortly. "I ain't gonna go back there."

Minty silently nodded while she nosed her car onto the Highway Twenty-two. Again they rode on in silence for quite a while, with Minty concentrating on the bad weather traffic and Sophia just staring through the windshield a bit, still holding her arms crossed over her chest. It wasn't until Minty took an offramp and stopped at the red traffic lights that Sophia spoke up again.
   "So what do you do?"
Minty looked aside with an expression of surprise, and this time the young cat did not look away.
   "I beg your pardon?"
   "What do you do?" Sophia asked again. "You know, like, for work and stuff."
   "Ohh, I see," Minty understood. "Well, I do order processing for a large paper manufacturer."
   "In Silverton?"
   "Hee, no," Minty said with a light giggle, accelerating when the lights turned green. "I used to work at one of the main offices in Portland, but now I work in a small subsidiary branch in Amity."
   "Oh." Sophia tilted her head a bit, seemingly having loosened up a bit. "So what were you doing in Silverton?"
   "Flying," Minty smiled.
Now it was Sophia's turn to blink in surprise.
   "What?"
   "Flying," Minty smiled again. "Flying is my great passion in life. I have a small airplane that I regularly take out for a flight, and it's stored at the airfield in Silverton."
   "Really?" Sophia said, sounding slightly impressed in spite of herself. "What kinda plane?"
   "She's a small 1978 Beechcraft C23 Sundowner," Minty said with a deeper smile. "Green with a yellow and white stripe, I call her Sunny."
   "Sunny?" For the first time, a soft sound resembling a giggle sounded from the small cat. "That's kinda funny. Does it have like big jet engines and stuff?"
   "Heavens, no," Minty giggled. "She's just a small plane, with just a single engine with a propeller in the nose and a fixed undercarriage."
   "What?"
   "The landing gear, you know? The wheels and wheel struts, they're fixed, meaning they can't be pulled up into the bottom of the plane but they always stick out," Minty explained.
   "Oh. So, like, it's... like them small cropdusting planes or something?"
   "Mmmyes, you could say that, yes. For things like that, they use similar small planes. Even smaller ones, actually, because cropdusting planes usually have only one seat, my Sunny seats four." Driving past the sign that read Welcome in Amity, Minty smiled and pointed at the sign. "And here we are, this is the little town where I live."

Sophia looked around her a bit as Minty drove through the streets. There was not very much to see, though, as it was just as lousy weather in Amity as it had been in Silverton, and the heavy rain had effectively washed the streets clean of populace. Sophia shrugged a bit and sank back down in the passenger's seat, just looking through the watery windshield instead and remaining silent again while Minty drove towards West 2nd Street and all the way down it to where it dead-ended by the fields that ran over into a forest.

While Minty turned onto the driveway of the last house in the street and swung her car around to park it tailfirst on the driveway, Sophia sat up a bit to look through the window again.
   "You live here?"
   "Yes, this is my little place," Minty nodded with a smile. "Like it?"
   "It's nice I guess," Sophia said with a light shrug.
   "Thanks," Minty chortled softly, killing the engine of her car and turning off the lights and windshield wipers. "Now, sit tight and I'll help you out of the car and support you, okay?"
   "Sure, fine," Sophia shrugged again.

Minty let out another soft chortle, grabbing her handbag and getting out of her car. She closed and locked the door before walking around to the other side. Sophia was already opening the door and accepted Minty's helping paw to get out of the car. After Minty had also closed and locked the passenger door, she supported Sophia as she made her way over to the house, slowly because Sophie was limping badly on her hurt ankle, but still as quickly as possible so they could get out of the rain.

Once inside, Minty took off her soaked jacket and hung it on the hall stand, then letting Sophia lean on her arm and against her side again.
   "Well, here we are then," she smiled. "I'll give you a tour of the place later, but first let's get you cleaned up and get into something warmer and especially dryer, alright?"
   "Sure, okay," Sophia shrugged. Very lightly, the ends of her lips curled upwards a bit. "It would be nice to be dry. I'm cold."
   "I can imagine," Minty nodded with a light giggle. "Well, bathroom's upstairs, and I'll draw you a nice hot bath to soak in for a bit." She wrapped her arm around the small cat's shoulders to support Sophia even better. "C'mon, let's get to the bathroom. I'll go slowly."
   "Yeah, thanks," Sophia said.

She followed Minty up the stairs, leaning heavily and limping badly as she tried to favor her hurt ankle by keeping her right foot off the floor. That way it took them almost five minutes to get to the top of the stairs and to the bathroom. Minty guided the girl into the bathroom carefully and set her down on a plastic chair that was next to the sink. Sophia looked around her a bit again, taking in the sight of the bath tub, the shower booth, the dryer booth, the sink, the toilet and a couple of cabinets and a towel rack. Minty smiled.
   "There we are. Are you okay?"
   "I guess so," Sophia said, leaning over to rub her right ankle. "My ankle hurts."
   "We'll see what we can do about that in a minute," Minty smiled. "I'll draw you a nice hot bath first so we can get you clean and warm, and I'm sure I have some clothes you'll fit too. I'm not all that big myself either after all," she added with a soft chitter. "Do you want me to help you undress too?"
Sophia looked up from her bent-over position with a smirk.
   "I can take off my own clothes very well myself, thank you, I'm not a baby."
   "I never said you were, dear," Minty smiled. "We just wouldn't want you to fall over and hurt yourself even more, would we?"
   "I'll do it sitting down."
   "Alright, alright, then I'll draw up the bath for you," Minty smiled.

She turned and leaned over the bath tub, putting the drain plug in and turning on the taps. While the water was running, Minty added some soap so the water built up a layer of pleasantly smelling foam as well. Every now and then Minty held a paw under the stream of water, adjusting the taps here and there to make sure the water was of a nice temperature. When the tub was a bit over half filled, the green mouse turned off the taps and turned again to look at Sophia, who meanwhile had taken off her tattered and muddy clothes and who was sitting back on the chair with her arms crossed over her chest again, flicking the end of her tail back and forth.

Unable to help herself, Minty kept looking at the young cat for a while. She noticed a few more details; even despite Sophia having her arms crossed over her chest, Minty could see the little feline had a rather full chestruff, which also sported the strange coral-red color, spotted all over with white polka dots. From under the ruff of fur came white fur that covered the small cat's chest and tummy, all the way down over her crotch and down the insides of her upper thighs, and just above Sophia's ankles ran a band of more orange fur around the girl's legs, similar in color to the two round spots on the girl's cheeks. The little ruffs of fur on Sophia's shoulders were also colored in the same more orange color.

All those bits of orange, coral-red and white everywhere on the young cat's body gave her a very colorful appearance. It did look a bit unnatural, however. The white on the girl's chest and tummy was normal, and even the orange spots on Sophia's cheeks looked as if they could be natural, but the coral-red and white toes and fingers, the orange ankle bands and shoulder ruffs, and the pink hair and tail looked very unnatural. The most obvious was of course the girl's chestruff, with the almost perfectly round white polka dots in the coral-red fur, which more or less proved the young cat's hair and tail and the parts of fur that were not beige were most likely dyed, except for the white ventral fur.

There also was one more other different color on the little feline's body. The skin on the inside of the girl's ears and the pad of her nose were a light pink in color. And while Minty could not see the girl's nipples because Sophia still had her arms crossed over her chest, the small cat was not holding her legs crossed as well which allowed Minty to see another spot of pale pink, a thin strip of pale pink in the middle of a pair of plump, puffy white lips between the girl's thighs.

Minty's eyes were fixed upon that thin, fleshy strip of pale pink for several moments. She only faintly noticed how the small cat seemed to be sagging slightly in the plastic chair and spreading her legs a bit further, and she didn't even notice at all Sophia said something to her. Only when it dawned in her Sophia was looking up at her face with a somewhat funny smirk, Minty blinked and gave her head a short shake.
   "I'm sorry, what did you say?"
   "I said, you like my pussy?" Sophia repeated with almost a guffaw, still holding one arm across her chest but lowering her other arm to trail her fingers over the plump white outer lips of her young vulva and lightly pull aside one of them.
Minty blinked again and cleared her throat.
   "Hrm. It's nice, yes." She quickly changed the subject. "The bath is ready, better not let the water get cold, alright? Do you mind if I join you and get the cold rain out of my fur as well? I can take the shower if you prefer though."
   "No, that's okay," Sophia said, still with that slightly funny little smirk and her head a bit tilted.
   "Alright, I'll help you get in first."

Sophia nodded, sitting up in the chair and holding out her paw to let Minty help her to her feet and into the bath tub. She flicked her tail again as she sank down in the warm, foamy water and drew in a deep breath, but then she relaxed a bit and released the breath in a slow sigh, wiggling her whiskers a bit.
   "Oh, this is nice and warm. I really was very cold." She sniffed at the foam. "Smells nice, too."
   "It's Spring Freshness, my favorite," Minty nodded with a smile as she took off her own soaked clothes and put them, together with Sophia's tattered and muddy clothes, in the hamper. She noticed how the small cat had finally lowered both arms, but still kept her chest covered with a large clump of soap suds. Shrugging inwardly, the green mouse stepped over to the bath tub. "Now, scootch forwards a bit, so I can sit behind you, would you please?"

Sophia nodded again, with her head a bit tilted as she looked the naked green mouse over while Minty got into the bath tub as well. Minty ignored it, just smiling as she sat down behind the small cat and let Sophia lean backfirst against her tummy and chest. Taking a sponge, Minty put some soap on that as well and started gently scrubbing the stains of mud and grass and dirt off the young feline's body, or at least for as much as she could reach. Gradually, Sophia's fur regained its light, almost peach-colored beige tint, and the attentions of Minty's paws and the sponge even spurred an ever so light purr to sound in the small cat's throat. Minty smiled over it, warning Sophia to keep her eyes closed and lean her head back a bit so Minty could wash her hair as well.

After rinsing out the foam, Minty smiled deeper and leaned to the side a bit so she could look at Sophia's face.
   "Feeling better?"
   "Yeah... thanks," Sophia nodded slowly. "It's nice and warm, and I haven't been washed by someone else in a long time no more."
   "Glad I could help," Minty smiled. "And now you're all clean, I can see what a pretty girl you are, too."
   "No I'm not."
Minty chittered a light giggle.
   "You may not think so, Sophia, but you really are. Only..." She lifted one of the girl's arms and held Sophia's left paw in both her own. "As cute as it looks, these colors on your fingers and toes and that tuft of fur on your chest, I'm pretty sure you weren't born with that, right? Nor with the pink hair and tail, for that matter, am I right?"
   "Well... no, I dyed it," Sophia admitted, making a funny face. "I'm so plain-jane, sand-colored and white, so, like, I put some extra color here and there."
   "I think it looks cute," Minty smiled. "Though I wouldn't mind seeing what you'd look like with just your natural fur colors."
   "You can't."
   "Why not?"
   "Well, like... I didn't know, but the dye I used is a very permanent kind. Like, it goes into your skin and colors the... the... those things from which the hairs of your fur grow," Sophia explained. "So even if you would like shave off all that colored fur, it would still grow back in the same colors."
   "Oh, I see," Minty nodded. "Well, but like I said, I think it looks cute, and it certainly makes you look special."
   "Thanks, I guess," Sophia shrugged, turning her head a bit to look at Minty's face. "And how about your fur? Surely that green must be dye as well."
   "It actually isn't," Minty said with a soft giggle. She held out a paw. "See, look at the pads of my paws, the skin inside my ears or on my tail or my nose; that's all green as well. I was actually born with the green skin and green fur."
   "Oh. That's weird." The corners of the small cat's lips lifted a bit again to show a hint of a smile. "But it looks rather nice too."
   "Thank you, dearie," Minty smiled. "Now, lean to the side a bit, if you will."

Sophia did so, looking at Minty with her head a bit tilted again as the green mouse half rose up and shifted around in the tub, until she was sitting on the other side, facing Sophia.
   "There," she smiled. "We're all clean and warm now, and nice and relaxed in the warm water, let's see what we can do about your ankle, alright?"
She reached down and took Sophia's right leg, lifting it a bit while she also pulled up her own right leg. Resting the small cat's right foot on her knee, Minty started running her paws along both sides of Sophia's lower right calf and ankle, giving a gentle massage as best as she could. Sophia winced initially and slowly flicked her tail back and forth under the water, but she gradually started to relax, leaning against the rim of the tub and half-closing her eyes. A very soft purr even started sounding in her throat again after a while as Minty continued the gentle massage of her ankle. Minty smiled deeper at it, softly rubbing the girl's ankle some more and then drawing the small cat's attention by lightly and playfully wiggling her fingers at Sophia's colorful little toes.
   "Feel better?"
The corners of Sophia's lips lifted into a true smile now, and she nodded.
   "Yeah. It hurts less now." She sat up straight and took Minty's paw in both her own. "Like... thanks for being so nice to me."
   "It's the least I could do after I almost ran you over," Minty said with a soft chitter. "And I'm always nice to cute girls."
   "Oh really?" Sophia said with a light giggle of her own.
   "Well, yeah," Minty chortled. "I mean, who wouldn't be nice to a cute girl like yourself?"
Sophia stuck out her tongue and huffed.
   "Hmf. I can name some, starting with the people in that stupid foster home."
   "I'm sorry to hear about that, dearie," Minty said, giving Sophia's paw a gentle squeeze. "And about that..." She leaned over a bit and lay her paw on Sophia's shoulder. "You can stay here for the night, Sophia, but tomorrow, I really will have to call the police and let them know you're with me."
Sophia's brow darkened.
   "I'm not going back to that foster home!"
   "I didn't say I would have you sent back there, Sophia," Minty said calmly. "But I do need to let them know what happened today, and that you're staying with me for now." She lay her paw against Sophia's cheek and turned her head a bit so she could look the small cat in the eyes. "Look, I can understand you hate it there and that you don't want to go back, but I can't just simply keep you here and tell no one. It just doesn't work that way, I will have to let the police and the people of the foster bureau know where you are, what happened to you and that you're safe."
   "But then they'll come here and take me back," Sophia grumbled. "They did that last time. And I don't wanna go back! I'll run away again!"
   "Sophia, listen to me," Minty smiled. "I do have to let them know, but I won't let them take you back if I can help it, okay? But I do have to let them know, if only so we can figure out how we can get you out of that home."
Sophia dipped her ears and tried to look away from Minty's face, grumbling to herself with twitching whiskers. But eventually she did look back at the green mouse.
   "I guess," she huffed. "But..."
Minty smiled again and lay a finger over the small cat's lips to hush her.
   "I know, you don't want to go back, and I will do everything I can to arrange you can stay with me, or with my good friend Dusty while we figure out how we can get you out of that home, okay?"
   "Who's Dusty?"
   "Dusty is my best friend, she lives in a small town about a half hour away from here, and she has a daughter who's a few years younger than you," Minty explained with a smile. "It might be needed you'd stay with her instead of with me. See, I have a week off from my work now, but next Monday I will have to go to work again, and I work five full days a week. And I couldn't just leave you here by yourself every day, could I? But Dusty works from home, so she's there all the time to look after you, and like I said, she has a daughter a few years younger than you, the two of you could be good friends too."
   "Is she... nice, like you?"
   "Sweetie, she's even nicer than me," Minty chittered. "You know what, I'll give her a call in a moment and ask her to come over so you can meet her and her daughter, okay?"
   "I guess," Sophia shrugged, looking up again. "But what if I wanna stay with you?"
   "We'll try and figure out something, okay?" Minty smiled, letting out a soft giggle. "And while we're figuring out stuff, why don't we get out of this tub first and get dried off? If we sit here in the water any longer, we might end up like a pair of hairy raisins."
In spite of herself, Sophia giggled very softly as well.
   "Yeah, okay I guess."
   "Good," Minty nodded. "Come, I'll help you out."

She rose up and stepped out of the tub, tripping the drain lever in passing. While the water drained away, Minty leaned over to help Sophia out of the tub and support the small cat. It was only now, with neither any foam nor Sophia's arms covering her chest anymore, that Minty noticed the possible reason why Sophia had kept her chest covered all the time. Her chest was decidedly flat, without even the slightest hint of any budding breasts despite the girl being twelve years old already, however her nipples were significantly pronounced, with even the areolae being very puffy, almost looking like two firm halves of a marble with a half pea on top of each one. Seeing Minty looking at her chest, Sophia smirked and quickly raised an arm again to cover her puffy nipples.
   "Why do you do that, dearie?" Minty smiled, supporting and leading Sophia to the dryer booth.
   "They look stupid," the small cat huffed.
Minty opened the door of the dryer booth with her elbow and gently steered Sophia inside, stepping inside herself as well and smiling again.
   "No they don't, I think they look nice."
   "What?" Sophia looked up for a moment, then turned her gaze towards the floor and swished her tail. "No they don't, they look stupid. And, like, I don't even have boobs yet." She sighed and dipped down her ears, shuffling a foot. "The other girls at the foster home... they all have boobs, but I don't, all I have is those stupid thick round things. They all tease me about it too. They say I'll never get boobs, that I'll stay a stupid flat surf board forever."
   "Hey, Sophia, look..." Minty switched on the dryer booth's fans and knelt down a bit, laying her paw against the small cat's cheek again. "You don't have to be ashamed for that. Those other girls, they're just being mean and dumb, they don't know what they're talking about. Your breasts will grow in, it just takes longer for some girls than others is all. I mean, heck, look at me. My breasts didn't start growing in until I was sixteen, and they always stayed very small too, see? Probably because I'm a mouse and all, everything about me is small and petite," she added with a soft chitter.
Sophia looked at Minty with a sideways glance.
   "Really?"
   "Positive, dearie," Minty nodded with a smile. She rose back up fully and lay Sophia's paws on her hips, then lay her own paws on the small cat's shoulders. "Now, stand like this, and slowly step around in a circle, okay? It'll give this dryer the chance to dry off all of our fur."

Sophia nodded silently, slowly and carefully stepping around in a circle together with Minty. All the while, she kept looking at the green mouse right in front of her with her head slightly tilted, her gaze mostly fixed upon Minty's very small breasts as if she was contemplating what Minty had told her just now. The green mouse merely smiled and remained silent as well, very slowly stepping around and around in a circle until the timer of the dryer booth ran out and the two of them were fully dry and pleasantly warm again.

Supporting the small cat again, Minty led the way to her bedroom, letting Sophia sit on her bed. After she'd taken a brush, Minty sat down on the bed cross-legged as well, behind Sophia, so she could begin to gently brush the girl's pink hair and beige fur. She kept at it for quite a while, making sure Sophia's fur came out looking sleek and glossy and quite silky, and her hair and tail resembled waves of pink fluffiness.
   "You're such a pretty girl, especially when you're well groomed," Minty smiled.
   "Really?" Sophia said softly, turning her head a bit to look back at Minty.
   "Mm-hm," Minty nodded with a smile, drawing the brush down along the young cat's back again. "Just look at how nice your fur came out of the washing, you look so soft."
   "Thanks, I guess," Sophia said softly, leaning forwards a bit with her paws leaning on her knees. She remained quiet for a few moments, but then turned her head a bit again. "Hey... Minty?"
   "Yes, dearie?"
   "Did you, like... did you mean it? What you said just now? That you, like... that you think my stupid nipples look nice?"
Minty let out a soft chitter and nodded.
   "Yes, I meant that, Sophia. I do think they look real cute."
Sophia made a funny face.
   "I don't wanna be cute. I wanna be hot and sexy."
Minty chittered a louder giggle.
   "You are that as well, dearie."
   "Oh..." The small cat flopped down on the bed and rolled over onto her back, looking up at Minty and pulling up her left leg. "And you like my pussy, right? I saw you looking before."
Minty hesitated for a moment, but smiled again.
   "Well... yes, I like it, dearie."
Sophia slid a paw down her chest and tummy and trailed her fingers over her plump white vulva slowly.
   "Do you wanna touch it?"
Minty blinked for a moment, giving her head a light shake.
   "Well..." She drew in a deep breath, mustering the last of the self control she had been availing herself of the whole time again. "I would, Sophia, but I don't think I should."
   "Why not?" Sophia said with a bit of surprise, using both her paws to prop herself up a bit so she could look at Minty. "I mean, like... it's okay with a girl, ain't it? You can't get sick or pregnant from that." She looked at her colorful toes and wiggled them a bit. "I show my pussy a lot to the others in the foster home and all, they like that, and at least then they won't make stupid jokes about my nipples. But I like never let the boys touch it, only the girls who wanna. It feels nice."
   "Well, yes, but..." Minty tilted her head a bit as well and quirked an eyebrow. "I still shouldn't, even if I want to."
   "But why not?" Sophia wanted to know.
   "It's forbidden, Sophia. It's against the law," Minty said. "You're only twelve, they put people in jail when they do things like that with girls as young as you because it's wrong."
   "But that's stupid!" Sophia huffed. "I'm asking you, right? So why would it be wrong when I want it too and I ask you to make me feel nice?"
Minty curled her lips into a somewhat mirthless smirk.
   "It is stupid, yes. Look Sophia, of course it's good that there's laws like that because there's many people who do very bad things to little girls like you without them wanting it to, and those people should be in jail. But there's a whole lot of people who do it the right way too, and because the girls want it, but unfortunately those people have to suffer with the bad people, they get thrown in jail when they're found out too."
Sophia tilted her head, looking thoughtful and eventually curling her lips a bit.
   "But what if I tell no one so no one will find out?"
Minty smiled a bit.
   "That would probably help, yes, but..."
Sophia sat up and took Minty's paw in both her own.
   "Hey, Minty, look, you like want it too, yes?"
   "Heh..." Minty smirked a bit. "I'll be honest with you, Sophia, I want it really really badly. I have a thing for little girls like you, and from the moment we got undressed in the bathroom I've been restraining myself as hard as I can not to do anything or even not to look too much, because you're making me really hot."
   "Really?"
   "Mm-hm."
   "Heh, that's great," Sophia chortled softly. "I like it when I make people hot, it makes me hot too." She squeezed Minty's paw. "Will you make me feel nice, Minty? Please? I really want it too, and I promise I won't ever tell anyone like ever."
Minty shivered a bit and flicked her tail back and forth slowly.
   "I really want to as well..." She looked at the small cat. "Have you done it before, Sophia?"
   "Well, yeah, kinda," Sophia nodded. "There's this one girl at the foster home, Veronica, she liked it too. We sometimes rubbed each other's pussy to make us feel nice."
   "I see..." Minty said softly. She looked back at Sophia and slowly curled her lips into a smile. "And you only used your fingers?"
   "Well, yeah," the small cat said, a little surprised. "What else would we use?"
Minty smiled a bit deeper.
   "Well, among us lesbian girls..."
   "What's that?" Sophia interrupted.
   "Lesbian? That means girls who only like other girls to do intimate things with," Minty smiled.
   "Oh. Are you one?"
   "Yes, I very much am one. No boys for me ever, only girls."
Sophia giggled a little bit.
   "That's cool, I like that."
   "That's nice, dearie," Minty smiled. "So, as I was going to say, among us lesbian girls, there's a lot of things you can do to each other to make each other feel nice, and there's one specific thing that's quite favorite among all lesbians."
   "What's that?" Sophia asked. She squeezed Minty's paw again. "Hey, will you do it to me, Minty? Please?"
   "I will, Sophia," Minty nodded with a smile. "Because you're such a sweet girl, and I like you a lot." She lay her paw on the small cat's shoulder. "Here, lay back, okay?"

Sophia nodded happily and lay down on her back again, eagerly spreading her legs and rolling her head to look at what Minty was going to do. The green mouse smiled again and leaned over herself, running her paws along Sophia's side while she bent down her head to give a soft nuzzle, then several small licks and a light suckle to the small cat's plump, puffy nipples. Sophia twitched and mewled in surprise, wiggling a bit and tapping the tip of her tail against the bed.
   "Myee..! Minty... that feels weird, but also nice. No one ever did anything with my nipples before."
   "I told you I like them, didn't I?" Minty smiled with a soft chitter, pressing her nose against the kitten's right nipple while she softly rubbed the left nipple between her fingers. "And this is just the beginning, it's not even what I was actually talking about just now."

Sophia just nodded again, laying back her head and closing her eyes while she wiggled about slowly under Minty's ministrations. The green mouse smiled as she felt how the young feline's puffy nipples hardened and perked up even more at her attentions, giving a few more licks and light suckles to each nipple before she began to slowly nuzzle her way down over Sophia's chest and tummy, pressing soft kisses here and there along the way. Opening her eyes again, Sophia rolled her head to look at what the green mouse was doing curiously, her colorful little toes curling and wiggling. Again she mewled when Minty nuzzled down between her thighs and pressed a soft kiss upon her plump white vulva, followed by a soft lick across the narrow, newly developing inner labia beginning to just peek from the feline's young slit. Sophia arched and closed her eyes once more, flicking her tail back and forth.
   "Nyeeeee..! Oh... Minty, do... do girls really like doing that. It... it feels real nice, but don't it taste gross?"
   "Nope, we lesbian girls really like doing this, Sophia," Minty chirred. "It's very popular, both because it feels wonderful for the girl who it's done to, and it tastes delicious for the girl who's doing it."
   "R-really? Ah... oh! Minty!"

Sophia gasped and arched again with her toes curled when Minty slid another soft lick across her little slit. She pressed her back and shoulders against the bed and lifted her bum, wiggling against Minty's soft licks with mewls and gasps of delight. Minty smiled deeper, her short whiskers wiggling happily when she felt and tasted the first traces of the kitten's juices beginning to appear from between Sophia's trembling narrow inner labia. It spurred the green mouse on to give a continuous soft licking over the kitten's little pussy, every now and then nuzzling her pointy nose against Sophia's tiny clit while she cupped the small feline's bum in both paws and used her thumbs to gently spread the plump white outer labia apart a bit so she could slide her tongue right through Sophia's narrow little slit.

Mewling breathlessly, Sophia pressed herself up against Minty's muzzle instinctively, unaware she was even doing it. Her pink tail fluffed out and flicked back and forth erratically, her colorful little toes curling and flexing in turns and her ears flagging. Minty gave light counter-pressure, her chirring growing deeper as the taste of Sophia's fresh young juices became deeper the more of it started seeping out of the kitten's plump, trembling pussy, encouraged along quicker by the soft nuzzles and rubbings of the green mousette's cool, small nose against Sophia's tiny clit.

With that many and that intense new sensations, the young cat didn't hold out very long. All of a suddenly, she yowled out a high-pitched mewl and curved her back to press up against Minty as hard as she could, shuddering and twitching all over with her mouth hanging open and her eyes squeezed shut tightly. Her plump pussy twitched and clenched, a few thin little trickles of her juices forcing their way out to be happily lapped up by Minty's busy little tongue. The green mouse made sure to lap up each and every last little drop before she gave a few slow, soft licks across the entire surface of the kitten's sex. Licking her lips, Minty chirred softly and lay down next to Sophia as the kitten flopped down into the sheets, one paw gently rubbing the small cat's flat heaving chest.

Sophia panted deeply, trembling all over, her little tongue lightly moving back and forth on the rate of her deep breath as it dangled from her muzzle. Minty smiled and kept softly rubbing the young feline's chest with one paw, holding her other arm wrapped around Sophia's shoulders. After quite a while, the small cat pulled her tongue back in and rolled her head a bit, only just opening her eyes to look at Minty.
   "Oh... oh Minty... that felt amazing," she mewled breathlessly. "I never felt so good before, it never was so nice when I rubbed myself or when Veronica and me rubbed each other."
   "I told you it's one of the most favorite things to do among us lesbian girl," Minty smiled, leaning over a bit to press a soft little smooch on Sophia's nose.
   "Yeah... yeah..." Sophia nodded, panting. "I..."
   "Ssssshhh, just lay back and relax until you get your breath back," Minty smiled.

Sophia gave another small nod of her head and closed her eyes again, slightly rolling to her side and cuddling up against Minty's chest and tummy with one arm wrapped around the green mousette's side and shoulder, showing a great deal more affection than her earlier provocative and short-spoken mannerism had hinted she possessed. Minty smiled deeper and wrapped both her arms around Sophia's trembling little body to cuddle the kitten against herself, gently stroking Sophia's hair and ears with one paw. They lay like that for several long, blissful moments, Minty chirring softly, Sophia panting in slow, deep huffs that gradually turned back into a regular breath rate. When the small cat had her breath back entirely, she opened her eyes and lifted her head a bit to look up at Minty's face.
   "That felt so great, Minty," she smiled with a soft purr. "I can like totally imagine girls like doing that so much, I never felt so good in my life."
   "I'm very happy about that, dearie," Minty chirred. "I thoroughly enjoyed making you feel so good. You taste really delicious."
   "Did it really taste good? You really liked the taste of my pussy?" Sophia asked.
   "I really did, yes, you taste delicious," Minty nodded with a smile.
   "But how can that be? I mean, like, you pee from there, right? Ain't that gross?"
   "That is, yes," Minty giggled softly. "But when a girl gets wet from sexual arousal, the juices she releases from her pussy when she gets hot or when she climaxes, those juices are absolutely delicious."
   "Wow, that's weird, I never knew," Sophia murmured. She looked up at Minty again and smiled. "I'm glad I met you, Minty."
   "I'm glad I met you too, dearie," Minty smiled.
Sophia nodded lightly and nuzzled her head against the green mousette's small breasts.
   "Hey... Minty?"
   "Yes?"
   "Did it, like... did it make you even more hot, licking at my pussy like that?"
Minty chittered softly and pressed a kiss on one of Sophia's ears.
   "You better believe it, dearie. My own pussy is just about dripping now from how hot it made me."
   'Really?" Sophia asked, rolling her head a bit to try and look down along Minty's body. "Hey, like... can I touch you too, Minty?"
   "I would like that very much, Sophia," Minty smiled.

She let go of the small cat and rolled herself onto her back, spreading her legs a bit. Sophia purred softly, turning a bit and running a paw down over Minty's tummy while she looked at the green mousette's glistening wet vulva. Very lightly, she traced her fingertips across Minty's puffy green outer labia and quivering, slick turquoise-ish fleshy inner labia, taking in each detail of the green mousette's pussy in silence for a while. Minty shivered and flicked her tail at each touch of the kitten's small fingers, chittering a light giggle under her deepening breath.
   "So, you like my pussy?" she chittered, with a light tease using Sophia's own words of earlier.
The small cat traced her fingers along the fleshy turquoise ruffles of Minty's slick inner labia again.
   "Yeah," she purred softly. "The green is weird, but it also looks like real cool. Kinda makes me hot again, looking and touching at your pussy. Smells real nice too." She lightly prodded a finger against Minty's dripping slit with a soft squishy sound. "Wow, you are real wet, too."
Minty let out soft squeaks and closed her eyes while wiggling her hips a bit and flicking her thin tail.
   "Eee, mmm... yes, I... that's because of how hot you make me, Sophia."
   "Wow, awesome," the small cat smiled. She wiggled and prodded her fingers at Minty's green slit, swiveling her ears at the squishy sounds it caused and looking at her fingers getting soaked and sticky. "Hey, like... does it really taste so good?"
   "Mmmh... I think so, and all girl's I've been with think so," Minty squeaked. "Though of course, every girl has to decide for herself if she likes the taste or not, and there's only one way to find out."
   "Yeah..." Sophia ran a finger through Minty's slit again and looked at her finger musingly. "Yeah, I wanna. Specially if I can make you feel just as nice as you made me feel with it."

She crawled around a bit until she was laying between Minty's legs, face to face with the green mousette's quivering, dripping sex. Again she prodded her fingers at the slippery inner lips, slowly leaning over a bit until her nose was almost touching Minty's pussy. After only a slight moment's hesitation, Sophia poked out her tongue and gave a very light lick with the tip of her tongue against the fleshy part of Minty's clitoral hood. The green mouse squeaked again and curled her toes for a moment, while Sophia lifted her head back up and slowly ran her tongue along her lips in that special manner only cats can, her whiskers wiggling back and forth.
   "Wow, like, it does taste real nice."
   "Mmmmm, nyee... it felt real good too, dearie," Minty murmured squeakily on the exhale of a deep breath.
   "Yeah? You liked that?" Sophia asked. Minty nodded, causing the small cat to smile. "Awesome. I liked it too, your pussy tastes good, Minty. I'm gonna make you feel nice too."
   "Mmm, please..." Minty murmured, spreading her legs wide, her pussy trembling in anticipation.

Sophia smiled happily and let out a soft purr, laying one paw on Minty's thigh and using the colorful fingers of her other paw to spread apart and move around the green mousette's slippery labia so she could give small testing licks to different parts of Minty's pussy. Her ears perked and swiveled to all the gasped squeaks each of her touches drew from Minty's lips and her whiskers wiggling as she purred happily at all the reactions she found she could bring out in the green mouse. Beguiled by the scent and the taste of Minty's juices, the young cat gradually became more eager in her licking, flickering her little tongue back and forth to explore all different parts of Minty's dripping green pussy quickly finding how the most intense reactions of the mousette were caused each time her nose or tongue touched against the hard little nub at the top of Minty's slit.

Knowing from the little bits of experience she had already gained how touching that little bump gave the nicest feelings, Sophia used the fingers of both paws to pull aside the slippery fleshy flaps of Minty's hood, exposing the mousette's hard clit and concentrating her licks on it. Minty squealed and arched her back, squeezing the bedsheets in her paws and curling her toes again while she jerked her hips upwards, wiggling and pressing up against Sophia's small muzzle. The small cat didn't know exactly what to do, but remembering how she had felt Minty pressing down each time she had lifted her hips herself when Minty licked her, she copied that motion, more or less giving some counter-pressure to the motions of Minty's hips and finding how she could lick even deeper into the mousette's warm, wet slit.

Minty kept her back arched and shuddered in pleasure, panting in high-pitched squeaks. The still quite inexperienced moves and touches Sophia was administering, and concentrating on her pulsing clit, heightened her delight ever more. Combined with the need that had kept building up inside her as she had restrained herself so much earlier in the bathroom and that was now being let fully free, the green mouse lasted even less long than Sophia had. Just a moment or two later, Minty squealed loudly again and lifted her butt and back off the bed, shuddering under the waves of orgasm washing through her and gushing from her clenching and twitching pussy in thick sticky gulps. Sophia pulled back with a bit of surprise at the sudden gush of warm juices, but finding how she had made Minty feel just as nice as the green mouse had made her feel earlier, she leaned her head back down and eagerly lapped up the rich gulps of Minty's juices, again also copying the mousette's motions of licking clean her entire green pussy afterwards.

As Minty fell back down into the bedsheets and panted deeply, Sophia purred and crawled over Minty's shuddering form, wrapping her arms around Minty's shoulders and nuzzling her head down on the green mousette's collar bone and under her chin, slowly swishing her fluffy pink tail in a content arc and wiggling her colorful little toes. She just lay there calmly, smiling to herself over how she moved up and down on the rate of Minty's gasping breath. Every now and then she rolled her head a bit and nuzzled her face into the fur on Minty's neck and throat with her eyes closed, waiting patiently until the green mouse had caught her breath again.

It took a little while, but eventually Minty managed to get her breathing back under control. She held her eyes closed as she wrapped her arms around Sophia's little body, letting out soft squeaking sounds while nuzzling her nose against one of the young cat's ears. Sophia smiled again, lifting her head a bit.
   "Hey Minty, was that nice for you too?"
   "It was marvelous, dearie," Minty chirred softly, pressing a smooch on Sophia's ear.
   "Yay, I'm glad I made you feel good too," Sophia purred.
   "You most certainly did, Sophia, you most certainly did."
Sophia nodded softly and nuzzled her face into Minty's neck fur again, snuggling quietly for a while.
   "Hey Minty?"
   "Yes?"
   "I really like you a lot. I wanna stay with you and do this a lot more."
Minty pressed another soft kiss on Sophia's ear.
   "I will do everything in my power to arrange you can stay here, dearie."

Again Sophia nodded quietly, cuddling up against Minty while happily wiggling her colorful little toes. Minty held the small cat close with both arms, chirring in a squeaky tone in time with Sophia's somewhat high-pitched purrs. They contently relaxed in the warm, tingling afterglow of what they had shared, before too long sliding into a satisfied slumber.

It seemed calling Dusty would have to wait for a day...
