With his anger completely defused, Lindsey sighed again in resignation with the fox nuzzling and kissing him out of sight by his neck. For pure comfort alone, he tilted his head back to give the creature room to do what he wanted.

He looked skyward at the strip of exposed sky beyond the alley's two walls with a forlorn but lusting eyes before he closed them, and whimpered when he felt the fox's eyeteeth scrape along his sensitive artery.

"Hot," he gasped, annoyance and disbelief flooding the tiny word, "Where any other person or demon could come up and see me."