Blackfoot Forest and she told me all about it."

"Liri," the man greeted as the girl appeared. "I was just thinking of you," he said, his tail wagging. "Come," he then told her, sitting, "Join me, we have not spoken in a while,"

He waited for the girl to sit with him, his ears perked and his head high as always. He studied her expressions, her white face darkened slightly by the lack of light in the forest. "How is Samuel?" he asked her once she'd settled. He remembered one of the first talks he had with her, and how he'd easily discovered a piece of her past. She had been abused-- he could tell-- and he wanted to be certain she was handling her current situation well.