Blackfeather Woods Visiting a friend

Kove agreed when she mentioned the cat hazing been crazy, though that wasn't the word he would use. Psychotic, insane, better off dead—those where words he would use if asked to describe the feline. How such a beast had yet to be slain was puzzling, but then again, who would be crazy enough to take on an unpredictable loon? Kove apparently, as he had attempted to fight off the creature in order to protect his friend. When Scarlett brought up the memory of her running away from the beast, and called herself a coward in the process of doing so, the alabaster wolf had to shake his head in disagreement. “We all have moments where we need to run away,” he said, wanting to cheer her up over the topic. “You weren't acting as a coward, you were acting as a sane wolf.” Had they both been decent fighters, rather than a fighter and a lover, then perhaps they could have stood a chance against the cougar. With how it was at the time, however, there was no way they could win, exactly, leaving running to be the only option. She had taken the correct course of action, and he wanted for her to see that.

The man smiled at her next words, feeling happy for her. He could understand how apologizing could make someone feel better, but what he was happy over was because she had come to visit him in her spare time, and because she'd been working to better herself—if Scarlett getting any better than she already is is even possible. “It's good that you've been working so hard,” Kove praised, genuinely glad to hear what she had to say.

The lick to his check shocked him, but he did not step away after it happened, and the shock in his eyes was quickly wiped away and replaced with a look of endearment. Then, it changed to amusement when she referred to him as her 'white knight'. “Well, it's great to know you'll never forget about me,” he said. “Though I'm not so sure about that whole 'knight' thing. Don't most knights not allow any harm to come to the princess? I could not keep the beast's claws away from you entirely.” It still bugged him that he had allowed the creature to scrape it's claws through Scarlett's coat and skin. “Hopefully I can live up to your words if something like that ever happens again.”