Hushed Willows east of the sun

Valiant thought, for a moment, that he had pushed a little too far. Already, he had begun to berate himself — What would someone like him want to do with someone like you? But then Alejandro seemed to answer in the affirmative, and Valiant was relieved to drop such insecurities.

"I don't really stay anywhere," he replied, which was a really cool way of saying he'd been living with his aunts for most of his life, but now he wasn't. "I've kind of been looking for someone, but — but it doesn't matter that much. Mostly I came out this way to get some fresh air, away from the rest of the family."

He fell on his rabbit once more, finally tearing into the stomach so that he could root around for the tiny liver and eat that first. "Do you have a lot of family?" he asked, his snout still rudely buried in his meal.