“Shawn, what’s your favorite animal?” Ivy’s legs swung over the side of the scholar’s desk, little bits of mud flecking off from her rain boots. Shawn decided to just avoid the question and move on with his term paper. Which, he had to admit, was starting to go very down hill. That’s what he got for not sleeping, he thought ruefully.

Ivy, being the determined thing she was, decided to press on. “I think Doe likes cats. I mean, I don’t blame him, cats are pretty awesome, but yanno. What guy likes cats?” Shawn shuddered. He despised cats. Shaking his head, he went back to work. “Crocodiles are awesome. Oh! Dinosaurs. Those are my favorite. But they’re not really animals…” Shawn, with a sudden spark of genius, smiled.

“Milk Bears.”

“What?”

“Go look it up. They’re great!” Curious, Ivy ran off to go find out what he was talking about.

Doe walked over to Shawn with a smile on his face, “You meant cows, didn’t you?”

Smirking deviously, the scholar nodded.