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Just because plan A had failed, didn't mean that Laesara was discouraged. She'd planned too hard for that to be the case, and even had three different methods of tempting him to come to her. All of which, as it happened, involved sweet food, but that was what he liked most.

I will try plan B... she giggled slightly, For berries, of course! The symmetry pleased her greatly, and it never failed to make her smile.

She put the apple aside – for her own use later, she supposed, and picked up the bag she had filled full of berries. They were fresh, too: she had plucked then only that morning, a whole cornucopia of berries. There were many different kinds, too; Purple berries, blue berries, pink berries, and her personal favorite, the sweet pyramidal red berries – whatever edible ones she could find in the forest around their home. All were sweet and all, Laesara knew, were favorites of Copperburst.

She smiled smugly as she held them up to the hastar.

He will like these. For sure. she thought, as he sniffed at them, Come on, Break... eat them.

And to her delight he did so, scooping up the berries with delicate laps of his thick lips. Laesara shot her mother a look of delighted glee.

”He's eating out of my hand, Mama!” she said, barely managing not to squeal. He was eating out of her hand! He'd never eaten out of her hand before! This was special! This was new! Could this mean her plan was working?

Plan B? For berries?

“Keep your eyes on him, sweetie.” cautioned her mother right as, with a malicious glint in his amber eyes, Copperbreak moved his head back and spat spit, juice, and berry fragments all over Laesara's face. The little girl blinked, shocked, as the hastar chuffed, pleased with his handiwork.