- I come here since I moved to Nome. Things we learn by looking around. – she replied, proud of her discovering.

After some more moments of playful insistence and laughs from both sides, he gave up of trying convincing her to tell what the surprise was.

Dan saw a light far away as the tunnel got steeper heading up, which surely was the exit of the tunnel, but his eyes were used to the dark, so it took some time until he could see clearly again. They walked out of the tunnel. The two dogs were now at the top of the cliff, having a privileged view of the entire land in front of it.

Dan widened his eyes, dazzled. They could see the entire forest from there. And also Balto’s wrecked boat far away, the town, and mainly, the sea, covering the entire horizon. Luna was right, it was beautiful.

- It's amazing! - Dan confessed, a smile on his face.

Luna smiled too, admiring the landscape too.

- You should see it in spring. – she said. – Oh, here comes the best part.

She approached the end of the cliff. Dan, worried about her safety, followed her, and looked down the cliff, like her. The ground was far away, but Dan wasn’t very afraid of heights. Suddenly Dan knew what Luna was waiting for. A wind current got to the wall of the cliff, and from there, rushed to their direction from below. They felt the wind hitting them continuously, giving them the feeling that they were flying. Looking at the landscape around them, they felt like they were soaring above the Alaskan lands, seeing the world from above... Luna looked at Dan, beside her. She admired his golden-brown eyes, his wolf-like face, his big paws… There was much of wolves in him, and she loved that. She wasn’t afraid of him like others. Just… intrigued. She closed her eyes to enjoy the wind again. Dan looked at her too. Though her eyes were closed now, he loved their blue shine. He admired her delicate face traits. He gave a look at her paws. They were not big as his, but its claws were very sharp. No problem with that, he loved it. He noticed some different traits about her. He evaluated the possibility of she having some wolf heritage too. She had some traits, though not as strong as his. He closed his eyes to enjoy the again. The current passed away, and they came back to reality.

- It's great! I’ve never seen anything like it! - Dan exclaimed, excited.

Luna looked at him and started to chuckle.

- What? – he asked.

- Your fur! – she said, starting to really laugh.

Dan looked at his fur, It was all tousled! He quickly tried to fix it with his paw, and looked at Luna's fur.

- You can't say much. – he said, starting to chuckle too.

She noticed her fur was the same way. Both laughed, and started trying to fix their fur. Only a small part of Dan’s head fur was refusing to get down. Luna, having already fixed her own fur, approached him gently.

- Let me do it. – she said.

She approached his head to Dan’s, causing him to have nervous shivers. She licked his head, and the rebel fur finally yielded and stayed in its normal position. She took her head off Dan’s, a bit nervous after realizing what she was doing. Dan decided to do something to make her less embarrassed.

- You missed some too. – he said, approaching her.

He licked the inexistent messed fur on a side of her face, and felt her relaxing. Luna was feeling the same things he was, but none of them would show it. She smiled at him, and chuckled, still a little embarrassed. Dan pretended it was all okay, and they started their walk back into the tunnel.

Back in the woods, they were talking and laughing. Luna knew some funny stories from Nome that Dan couldn’t even imagine. She was fun to hang out with. She was enjoying his company too, though he wasn’t talking much. The female just smiled with an idea.

- Hey, Dan, what about a race to the beach? – she suggested, grinning.

- Try to keep up. – Dan replied, grinning too. He loved a challenge.

They stormed out, and started racing heading to the beach. Dan was much faster than Luna, but he held back, just to run closer to her. What he didn’t know was that she wasn’t really playing to win. It was just to see him running. They stayed like that for some more minutes, running, chuckling, enjoying each other’s company, sometimes forgetting they were racing. Dan rushed ahead of her, just to show how he was fast. He looked back at her. She was chuckling, and was surely noticing what he was trying to impress her. Suddenly, when he returned to look ahead, he saw some ice in his way. He was going too fast to stop, and slid on it, out of control. He buried his claws on it, and slowly stopped. He got up, relieved. Luna was standing near him, chuckling. She surely had avoided the ice gathering.

- I thought wolves were more careful than that. – she joked.

- Oh, yeah? – he replied, grinning.

He jumped on her, and they started rough-housing, like two pups would do, laughing. After some play, Dan had pinned Luna. He stared panting at his subdued opponent, smiling victorious. She was tired too, trying to catch her breath.

- I thought dogs were more careful than that. – he said, ironically.