Phoenix Maplewood Fade into you

Mason felt her tense. He didn’t know what to do. Had he overstepped a mark? Maybe he was treating her with too much familiarity. He often did this, because he wore his heart on his sleeve. Everyone was a friend within minutes. He had fallen head over heels for Zaria within a day. He needed to toughen his emotions up.
 
Mason was saved by Desna removing herself from the semi-embrace. Mason looked down at what she classed as ‘the border’. It was nothing other than another strip of land that smelled similar to the parts nearby. He understood etiquette, and he hadn’t meant to overstep a mark (for the second time!) by being too close to her lands. If he was with her, would she not class herself as an escort? Mason he escorted strangers into his pack to talk to his Dad about recruitment. Maybe her pack hated outsiders and didn’t accept newcomers.
 
“Er sorry…” Mason backed off a goodly few steps whilst she spoke again. She asked him a barrage of questions and for the first time in his life, Mason felt like the less talkative one in the conversation. He faltered to answer them all for her: “It’s a while away, yeah… I’m fine, um… I’m a bit hungry if you could find me somethin’.” Mason blinked his wide-set eyes in mild confusion and looked behind him. He didn’t want to step across her border again so he supposed they would have to go that way.