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Emily was further down the passage, murmuring lovingly to a little whippet, who was eyeing her shyly from the corner of the pen.
“She’s so pretty,” she whispered to Lucy. “But so tiny and thin!”
“Oh, be careful...” Lucy hurried down the passage to her. “Twinkle’s pretty nervous, and she does sometimes snap...” But she stopped as she came up behind Emily, and saw Twinkle tiptoe towards her, and let Emily rub her beautiful satiny ears.
“Her nose tickles.” Emily giggled as Twinkle gently nosed at her hands, and licked her.
“Well...” Lucy said quietly. “Wow. She doesn’t even do that for me. She’s the shyest little thing. We decided someone must have scared her quite badly.”
Emily looked up at Lucy worriedly. “Oh! I hope it was OK to stroke her.” She started to pull her hand back through the wire door of the pen, but Twinkle was still sniffing and licking at her.
“Don’t stop! She really likes you.” Lucy eyed her, frowning. “Look, I’d love for you to come and help out at the weekends, but you do realise we can’t pay you, don’t you? I’d like to be able to, but we’re desperately short of money, and the roof in here’s leaking.” She nodded towards a bucket in the corner.
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