"Mmmrrghh!!" Hamuko was pretty deeply asleep for a while, mumbling lightly and incoherently, but the cold nose made her knee twitch and pulled her out of dreaming like she was being yanked out of a lake.

After a couple of seconds she wiggled upright, rubbing her knee - what was that? And rubbed at her eyes. ...Wait a minute.

"Mmmnuh.... Koromaru...?"