Totoka River you're gone and i gotta stay.

Sorry for the wait on this! :o

Sinaaq's body froze, each muscle pulling taunt beneath his dark coat as the other ebony creature jumped, quite literally, shooting up like a fire had been lit under his bum. Despite the tense, cautious position that his body had instinctively assumed Sinaaq was internally trying to figure out if he wanted to burst out into laughter or not. Never before he had managed to spook another quite so badly that they literally jumped — though that old saying “a first time for everything” did prove to be rather true. As Sinaaq struggled with his desire to laugh a wicked smirk had taken it's place upon his lips nevertheless. A reaction had been what Sinaaq had been waiting for it and what a reaction he had received. When the other apologized for not seeing him there — it did not fall out of Sinaaq's notice that if anyone should have been apologizing it should have been the Darkling not the younger boy — and spoke about not seeing Sinaaq, which hadn't been all that surprising given the severe and intent look upon the other's face previously, instead of doing what a normal creature with manners would do Sinaaq instead offered a sardonic, “Evidently,” Laughter evident in his golden irises though it did not penetrate past the mechanical rise of his lips into his usual smirk. “A drink is all,” Sinaaq had considered, briefly, ignoring the other male, getting his drink and moving on without the other any the wiser but he had previously thought that, that was bound to fail, though only now, when it was too late, did Sinaaq consider that he probably could have gotten away with it. “I was trying to avoid spooking you in case you happened to look downriver and see me,” Sinaaq admitted with a quiet laugh this time. The Arrluk didn't bother to say anything more because the both of them saw how well that attempt had worked out.