... Hibby is pretty.

Puppy knows this from the bottom of her heart! Hibby, short for Hibiscus, is very, very pretty!

And right now, she was brushing Hibby's hair for her, admiring its softness and blue shade.

"You're pretty." Puppy says, Hibby's hair laying in her lap.

"...?" Hibby lets out, before smiling.

... Was it brushing or petting, if you run your paws through another's hair?

Puppy doesn't know and doesn't mind, instead running a white paw through another part of Hibby's hair. "It's true- you're really pretty!" She smiles. "Just like how Duskie's really cute!"

Hibby nods. Puppy pauses the petting/brushing for a minute, just a minute, so that she could bend down and give Hibby a kiss on the lips, before going back to running her paw-fingers through Hibby's hair.

"I heard somewhere that if you speak more with your hands than with your mouth that your hands are more sensitive!" Puppy says. "... If that's true, then..." Puppy moves her free paw to one of Hibby's hands and holds it softly.

Puppy's not sure if it's her imagination, or if Hibby's face turned slightly pinker, but Hibby closes her eyes (Eye? Hibby's hair covers one of her eyes, so Puppy's not sure if Hibby's been secretly winking at her at times or not!) and holds Puppy's paw back.

Puppy wags her tail, her face flushing. She's... they're holding hands! The two of them are holding hands!

Sure, they have held hands before! But... holding hands is always a nice experience, isn't it?

Hibby's own silky tail splays out nearby her legs, and as Puppy runs her paws through Hibby's hair again it comes to mind that hey! She should give Hibby's tail some love, too!

"Can I pet your tail, too?" Puppy asks.

Hibby opens an eye (or both?) and nods.

Puppy moves over- making sure to keep the hand! to! hand! contact that she is having with Hibby, because holding hands with the girl that's also a boy that you love very much is only comparable to holding hands with their boyfriend- the (other) boy that you love very much!- and puts a paw through Hibby's tail!

Wow! There is... soooo much fur... it almost makes Puppy's head spin. Most of this thing is fur, actually! She expected there to be some bone in there, but no- it's just fur, fur, fur! So much fur...

Puppy runs her fingers through it all. It's a bit tangled, and there's some stickies and it's wet at the ends (probably from snow), and... Her paw grasps something and she pulls out.

"A GEMSTONE!" Puppy yells. How... how long has this been in Hibby's tail!? It's incredible! "Hibby, look! Look, look, look!" She yells, shoving the gemstone in Hibby's face. "A gemstone!"

Hibby looks at it curiously, then snorts. She signs one-handedly. "I must have forgotten that on one of my travels."

"It's a GEMSTONE!" Puppy barks with glee. The gemstone is pink- it sparkles on the inside and reminds her of a rare pearl texture she heard about once. "It's sooooo pretty! What sort of magical research are you going to do with it?"

Hibby pauses and smiles. "Why don't you keep it, dear?"

"What?" Puppy says. Did... did she misunderstand what Hibby said?

Hibby lets go of Puppy's paw for a moment, using her newly-freed hand to sign. "Why don't you keep it, dear? If it were not for you, either Duskie would have found it and shoved it in his mouth without thinking or it would have fell out and been lost."

"You really..." Puppy's eyes well up with tears. She drops the gemstone and hugs Hibby tightly. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"!!!" Hibby lets out a bark, which in this case meant "You're crushing me!", and Puppy loosens up the hug, still smiling. Hibby takes advantage of the space between them to sign. "It's pink like you are, is it not? A fitting gift for you."

"It... it is!" Puppy yells. "It really is! I'm going to keep it in my pocket and proclaim it as my lucky gemstone forever!" She scoops it up off the floor and deposits it into... well, she's not wearing anything with pockets, but she stores it in the same place she'd store a large pink and yellow mallet if she had one. She gives Hibby's pretty face a lick of thanks, her tail wagging from side to side.

"...May I comb through your hair?" Hibby signs. "Perhaps there will be objects of valve inside as well..." She smiles. "As well, your hair is always delightful to the touch."

Puppy nods so hard she's like a bobblehead, then turns around and falls right on Hibby, knocking her over. Her tail wags side to side- if her pearl wasn't part of her tail, it probably would have fallen off by now!

Hibby chuckles and gets to work, her pretty face looking down at Puppy all the while.