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To make matters worse, the juices flew into the air, spattering the cock and tarnishing his golden hackles. Rather than feeling mortified, he simply busted out in hysterical laughter at the sight of the both of them covered in a mess of berry juice.
"Are you all right?" he asked as he hurriedly assisted her in scooping up the remainder, still stifling small chuckles to himself, his eyes ambivalently expressing a mixture of both genuine concern and amusement, smears of blue on his smiling beak.
"I-I'm fine!" gasped Silvermist, breathless from mortification and nearly having the wind knocked out of her. "I'm sorry I spilled the berries on you! Oh, your feathers!" she groaned with dismay. Berry juice wouldn't likely come out very easily. It would linger, an attractively colored parasite, for perhaps even a moon.
The rooster's casual air and amused laughter calmed her immediately. The hilarity of the situation overcame her. The rooster, tail feathers blue as a smurf, struggling to pick up the remaining berries and instead squirting himself vigorously all the more. Herself, looking as if some squirrels decided to paint her front in an art contest. Finally she smiled, but it spread up into the corners of her mouth, and she found herself laughing right along with him.