Jade Fern Grove ACT I SCENE I

His silence,  or internal struggle on forming words -- it seemed -- was cut short when the cloud nymph's symphony would cease. The turn of their head and Mateo would be met with a pair of crystallines just as stark the boy's coat -- colored like crisp summer's waters. He'd look at Mateo like a deer in head lights, and the doctor (being who he was) became just as panicky as the other.

"A-Ah, wait, wait! I didn't mean to scare you! Im sorry-" The painted man mustered hastily while his front paws seemed to "prance" in place nervously. He hummed in thought with furrowed brows, looking left and right to see if he could say anything else that would help in this situation, and "D-Do you live...here?" was what eventually blurted out from trembling lips.