all of the light just fades away

She was the first one that he’d ever admitted to that he’d wanted to join his father. He hadn’t even told Julooke, mostly because he hadn’t wanted to cause her any further distress than she was already dealing with. Though he hadn’t outright acted upon that desire, his eating just barely enough to sustain a beating heart should have spoken volumes to those who knew about his severe depression, or at least to those who knew him best. Since becoming friends with Koontz, though, he had gained a little bit of weight, finding an actual desire to want to live. It wasn’t much weight, but it was enough to make him no longer look like a walking skeleton with fur draped over him. She gave him reason to want to live, actually live. Though he couldn’t see the smirk, he could hear it in her voice and thumped his tail against the ground behind him. She had more faith in him than he had in himself, that much was certain, but it was clearly something the sightless young male needed; someone to believe in him when he, himself, couldn’t. He didn’t yet say anything as she continued, explaining the job she opted to take on instead. Yildun understood the need for hunters within the pack instead. The sightless male did wish that he could help with hunting for the pack. Alas, things didn’t always go as one wished they did. But that was okay. "You can do it," he finally responded. "I have faith in you." A slightly wider smile graced his muzzle as he spoke. He went silent again, though, when she asked him about showing off his hunting skills. It wasn’t that the night affected his abilities. It was more that some of the things he was able to hunt weren’t out at night, preferring the safety of their dens or tree homes. But he didn’t want to disappoint, especially since she had done so much for him already. Turning his head from her, he pushed his ears fully forward. Silently, he listened to the night around them. He was listening for any sign that some creature would be out in the night, something that would be small enough for him to be able to hunt. Yildun wasn’t hearing anything, though, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t something out there somewhere. He chalked it up to the two of them having been singing to the night just moments before. "We’ll have to move away from this spot to find anything," he finally told her, turning his head back toward her, accidentally brushing his nose directly against hers in the process. If it were possible to blush, he would be.