The half-hearted grumble made her smile, and Blue took what was left of her pizza slice and the other bottle of water and returned to her spot beside her mate, close but not too close.

"It's not so bad," she observed quietly, plucking a piece of bacon from the toppings and popping it in her mouth. "Better than those frozen things Owen used to get from the grocery store." Which were basically cardboard covered with stuff posing as meat, in Blue's opinion.

"Maybe there's game we can hunt, once we get to where we're going." Owen had said that his father's ranch was close to several national forests, so if they were careful, they might be able to sample a bit of the local wildlife.