Duck Lake Settling the debts.

sorry for the wait! just not sure if i should post over constantine ;;

He almost laughs as she displays her relief so openly, but he doesn't, in part that he is afraid that she might get offended and that he would destroy the pleasant equilibrium he had established. Instead, he settles for a smile with no teeth showing and an appraising hum.

"Yeah, yeah, of course, why not?" he says, barely hiding childish giddiness from his voice. "This is the part when I say that I got your back and you agree, right?" Safka notices that she has lowered her head to groom her fur (much like the human habit of picking at invisible lint on their sleeve). It'd been such a long time since he'd actually properly talked to someone, and this experience feels alien, like he's jumped into cold water or stepped outside into a different world with a different atmosphere.