Neverwinter Forest Where we all cross the line

He smiled her way, wagged his tail, and after an awkward moment the koi encouraged each corner of her maw to turn upward slightly in response. Bashful, her blue-green stare were averted and she stared shyly down at the adult's mottled paws.

He spoke to her, and though she was too anxious to look at him as he did so, Luli listened quietly. It surprised her a little that this stranger knew her by name yet she was entirely unaware of his own, and it brought her no comfort. Fear tightened its hold on her and the rosy youngster inhaled deep, willing it away, and was glad for the distance that the Neverwinter leader had chose to keep.

She blinked up only when a question was sent her way, and her dappled ear twitched in recognition of it as she scrambled to conjure an answer. There was little time to do so, however, as Haoming came stomping onto the scene with a sharp and determined look about her. Luli shrunk away a little, swallowed the whine that threatened to rise in her throat as her sister barked demand, and remained silent.