man-places

Updated: June 24, 2025

Now with teeth and paws he went diligently to work, urged on by the whines of his mate, that tantalizing smell of an outside world tickling their nostrils a wild world, lacking the taint of man-places. He slipped under the loosened mesh and stood up to paw at the front of the female's cage. One forepaw caught in the latch and pressed it down, and the weight of the door swung against him.

Andre Norton - The Defiant Agents