Stone Circle let's try again; you be the lead

Akuti stopped moving with Grayday's growl, her ears flat against her head and her bottom to the ground in submission. She looked up at him with slicked eyes, speechless in response. No, she began, her voice at a low and level whisper, it won't. Akuti blinked a few times and looked down at her paws, then sniffled and made her way back to her feet. There was nothing more that she wanted in the moment than to make her way back to her own den — alone, of course — where she could curl into herself for the night and seclude herself from all of what the outside had to offer.

But of course, that wasn't possible. It was clear that Grayday had some sort of control over her, as there was no other explanation for how easily he was able to take a dark world and add light, and just as quickly steal that sunshine away. She wouldn't be able to let him go just yet, and she wasn't sure she wanted to.