Verdant Basin Forever's a long time

screw Aria and her stupid boyfriend. Casmir had decided not to care. she'd snapped that he didn't want her help and so he left. they were dumb. he hated them both. yet the anger gave way to pain -- seeing her had brough many unsaid words to the fore, and he wished he'd been able to take her aside and talk with her. it was all hopeless now; he'd even said he had a wife. a wife! who does that?

he had no wife and wanted none, the Mayfair boy sulked, scuffing the dirt of his path for no apparent reason. presently he slid into a trot, having caught Laika's scent, and appeared near her just in time to watch her shake her pale pelt free of dirt. 

the movement of course was invigorating for Casmir; he grinned and padded to her side, but his smile faded when he noticed how her already slim frame was quickly giving way to boniness. "when did you eat last?"