Fairspell Meadow Weeds can be pretty too!

she watches him.

caution makes him precise. he dissects the mushroom and watches her simultaneously.

the lady is unused to smiling unless the moment demands punctuation, but he draws one all the same. it is a truthful gleam and transforms her eyes into a shimmer.

for a second.

they watch one another. kaede does not answer, for there is no worth. they must find other ways to speak.

she takes another mushroom and eats. they are filling and yet tasteless to her. traveling-food.

another is offered. this time she sets the fungi down somewhat closer to herself. 

he is right to fear a wolf. another would see him easy to bait. that is why kaede has decided she wishes his company. she cannot bear to think of something so lovely ended in a burgundy patch by one of her own.