Verdant Basin Forever's a long time

fade here? we need another! <3

he smiled at her then, letting his eyes linger on the girl's pretty face. there was something here, he realized; he didn't want to address it yet, or name it. the emotion would take its own shape in time. for now he was content to hold her. 

there was a feeling of heartbreak that swept over Casmir when he remembered how he had held Aria in the snow the winter before, and his jaw tensed before he was able to push away the memory and curl closer to Laika. slowly his eyelids drooped until they closed; he sighed into her fur and slumber took him, an exhaustion tempered with the comfort of her presence.