Swiftcurrent Creek Don't make any sudden moves.

He saw her tail wag wondered what information she felt she got from his interaction. Clearly she felt it was something. He stared at her wondering how someone so young had gone so wrong. It was sickening, and perhaps it was wrong of him to assume she was bat shit crazy and evil. But she hadn't proven him wrong.

Blue eyes didn't move from her face. The silence stretched as she voiced her truth, and it rankled, truthfully it did. Stomach tightened and tongue wanted to wag, but he kept it leashed. Closed his eyes for a moment, centering himself as he always did, and lifted a large shoulder.

You believe what you want to. But maybe you should ask that boss of yours who attacked first.

A sadness stretched into a deep chasm. He hadn't been the one to leave the mark on her skin, but he had knocked her about with sickening accuracy. I should have let you just attack me? or run with my tail between my legs. Naw.

Large paws brought him to his feet and he grasped her vessel and turned away. He'd get her water, drop it and leave. He was tired of this conversation and the naivety of the girl.