"Meep!" Raven's call brings Tiero scrambling over a tree branch to find the kit standing with his paws on one of the practice books, left neatly on a stone by Mina, who still can't quite bear to hide a book somewhere it might get damaged, even if it is just full of blank pages. Tiero pets the kit, who snuggles into the stroking hand.
"Good kit!"
"Meeep!" comes from a short distance away, and Tiero turns to see Thunder standing on her hind legs against a tree with a book wedged in a low fork.
"That's two," he says, taking the book from its perch, and he could swear Thunder is smiling. Across the glade Pepper is sitting by the third book, but she has a smug expression and he can tell from the tongue still slightly in view that she has been licking the book she found.