Emberflame Ridge I sold my soul for this?

It takes a second but she turns around and looks at him. 

And that’s all.

Dark orange eyes narrow and his head tilts. It hasn’t been that long since he’d seen the woman. She’d been angry at him and he’d been a coward. What will she think now, if she gives him the chance? He hadn’t earned his place in Ryujin other than fucking the boss and worked his way in, but he’d gotten a second chance to do things right. A matter of time on whether or not he actually succeeds. 

The thought is cut short when she doesn’t do anything else. She watches him with questions written across her face in a language he can’t read. 

“Tavi?” he calls. One paw lifts and he takes a step forward, slowly, to see if she’d object to his approach. He thinks back to Asterr and her command for him to stop but he’d been treading on thin ice. Not that he isn’t here, for he certainly has a lot to make up for, but he forces his weight forward to close the distance.