Silver Creek O Captain! My Captain!

Their eyes met well and truly for the first time. Normally he would glance around her face, avoiding her gaze so as not to seem like he was challenging her. Normally he'd have glanced away quickly too, but something about this situation demanded his eyes on hers, so she could truly feel what he was saying. So she could understand he meant it from his very soul. For a moment he was lost in her eyes, noting the subtle glances of light, the very depth and emotion her eyes seemed to hold. She glanced away after a moment and the spell was broken, he drew in breath suddenly but quietly, as if he'd forgotten to breathe.

He stared at the side of her face for a moment, still seemingly stuck on where her eyes had been, but soon he glanced away. That warm moment they had shared confused him, he wasn't sure what exactly had happened. "I am glad to hear that, Spring. I appreciate you thinking so, sometimes I'm not sure..." He said softly, shaking his head. Many times he had felt weak for running, for not attacking or staying to die. "I'm not sure I feel strong about it all the time." 

He shrugged his shoulders, but he couldn't keep the twitch of a smirk from the corner of his mouth. "I am too. It was the land that drew me first, but...of course, I hadn't caught sight of you yet." He was flirting, but in a friendly manner. The atmosphere was heavy around them, though he couldn't help but feel it wasn't just because of the sad topics they had been discussing. It had something to do with their eye contact, with that moment.  He grew more serious again. "To be honest, though, I was worried about pledging myself to another pack after what happened before. I wasn't sure I would be able to...allow myself to connect well." He thought it ironic that now he was worried he was connecting far too well. He cared too deeply for Silver Creek. For both Casmir and Spring. "As much as I enjoyed my time with the pack before...I think Silver Creek might truly be where I was meant to end up. I'm not sure I believe in fate, but...I was lucky to find my way here whatever the reason."