Blacktail Deer Plateau the passportal

Dante still felt he would never get used to the displays of respect given him... they gave an uncomfortable reminder, despite the vast differences, to his position in youth. He would need to, however, for his fate was sealed. He had accepted the responsibility for this little family and he would carry it gladly, if awkwardly for a while.

"How could I forget?" he asked, smiling cheekily back. He appreciated her incorrigible spirit, he'd seen it as a pup of course but now it was growing into a real independence.

"I am, though as to deserving it, that we'll find out. But hey, if I royally screw it up, at least the next one will know what not to do." He was joking, of course, but he was serious about the first part. Only time would tell if he had made the right decision in stepping up.