Sequoia Coast Monsters can Remember

Aklaq came closer and curled around him, which creeped Charon out, but he decided to just let her be for now. She seemed mostly crazy, but not really dangerous, so far. When she said 'Kev, right?' he nearly corrected her with his real name, but managed to stop himself and nodded in silence while she continued speaking. Charon hadn't actually ever seen any roses, since he'd been born in fall, so he only really knew that they were flowers; he didn't know that they could be prickly if they weren't handled well, so he did not really understand why roses would hurt. He didn't say anything about it, though.

"I just met you, how would I know if we're gonna be close friends?" Charon replied. He added, because Charon had never been one for censoring or filtering his thoughts, "Plus, you're kinda a loony nutcase." She started to press her paw on his chest then, and it felt sort of weird; Charon wasn't sure what to think of it or how to feel, feeling very uncomfortable in Aklaq's presence as it were. His ears pressed sideways, it was evident from his face that he wasn't sure how to feel about this.