Sea Lion Shores you bring out the best in me

Seelie’s concern and distress is palpable, and he watches the emotions play across her delicate features, but he knows it would be pointless to try to supplant her with reassurances – she needs to go through the motions of it and come to terms with what she is feeling and thinking, otherwise the worry will simply eat away at her later. And he smiles softly when she seems to reach that conclusion. He’s sure she will still worry to a degree; hell, sometimes he still worries about his brothers across the sea in Armenia. That is just how family works.

And that smile widens to a near grin when she blurts out that he is ‘keeping’ her. “She didn’t give me much choice, threatened to beat me up if I said no,” he jokes, his natural inclination to lighten the mood further if possible. He dips his head to shove it against the inky sheepdog’s shoulder playfully, nipping at the feathery fur along her leg before straightening up as if he hadn’t done anything at all.