QUOTE : If you don’t like the word little, I could call you tiny. Tiny tinker?”<br /><br /> Her dainty hiss reminded him of Mrs. Henderson’s Persian. Yep, little cat was the right term for her.<br /><br /> He tugged a lock of her wavy hair in reprimand. “Did you just hiss at your mentor?” He’d never teased a female before this one. Odd how much fun it was.<br /><br /> “Oh, no.” She widened eyes as filled with mischief as a passel of pixies. “I would never. Truly. I know better than to disrespect someone of your venerable age.”<br /><br /> His jaw dropped. The kitten had just called him old? Old?