Blacktail Deer Plateau the dolls

Seems many of my characters are getting heart to hearts today :D Dante needs some edumacation

Love was one thing that, no matter how hard he tried, Dante could not understand nor sympathize with. Not the love of a parent for a child, or the affection between siblings. Those he could imagine, for they were sensations he too had felt, even if in some cases the emotions were not returned. But the love between mates or those courting? These feelings were as foreign to him as the surface of the moon.

"It must be some sort of connection, to have brought him back." He had spoken to Blue Willow before it happened, told her he thought their relationship strong enough to bring him back, but even as he had spoken the words he hadn't been sure they were true. He had hoped they were, and in hoping he had believed they might be, but the uncertainty had been there all the same. Having never made that connection with another, he had no way of knowing the power of its draw.

Lasher was one of his closest friends within the Plateau at this point, and yet still Dante hesitated to broach such a subject with him. Still, he was curious, and he doubted the male would mind the question. "If it isn't to forward of me to ask, how did you know that your feelings for Peregrine went beyond friendship?" He tipped his ears back slightly in embarrassment at his naive nature on the subject, but the sensation wasn't enough to stop him from asking. He had never actually spoken of love to another, nor had he had many encounters with those infected by its touch. His parent's mateship had been one of convenience, and Tarin's love had only begun blossoming when he left her to seek out new lands.