Mount Apikuni 'cause loving and hating are one and the same

Trying to believe him was all he could really ask her to do. He of all people understood the need to be guarded. Even though he found no trouble talking to and making connections with people, he struggled to trust fully. Takiyok was a strange exception to that rule, along with Luna, whom he hoped awaited him somewhere on the other side of the mountains.
He smiled, small, thin. After cleaning her wounds, he stood and dragged the goat closer to the tree where Takiyok lay motionless. For a while, he ate. When he was mostly full, he lay down, wrapping himself around his trusted friend and putting his head back on her backside so he could monitor her breath even while he slept.