Phantom Hollow lovesong is playing

Where Kaito was shrouded by shadows, the stranger was touched by light, and when she ducked below the lazy branches, he found himself at a vantage to make out her face more clearly than before, and a silly grin stole the corners of his mouth.

"Nah, don't worry." he said in an attempt to reassure her, and he stretched out his legs with a long quiver, like every cool wolf did. "Nothin really bothers me," but he wondered if he had bothered her, soft and gentle though she seemed, and he rose to meet her like the good knight he hoped to be ahem, was. She'd been looking for someone - and she was lost, he concluded, regardless of how many times he had heard her whisper otherwise. "But are you - "

But his good meaning question nearly ended with a number of expletives - so distracted by the stranger, he didn't see the branch that swayed above him, but he certaintly felt the blow when he rose and twacked himself against it. His breath hissed between clenched teeth, and he recoiled with a sharp duck and a wince that stole whatever maturity he'd managed to slap onto his boyish face - which honestly wasn't much. His breath hissed between clenched teeth and he let his curses fall to an awkward laugh and a stiff conclusion of the inqurity he'd started, " - are you alright?" His voice pitched higher than usual, but he grinned, despite the new throb in his head.