in this world it's hard to get it right.

It was the longest moment of silence she'd ever experienced. All the while, Fin couldn't tear her eyes away from his face, watching each shift of his eyes, the slight crinkle of his brow and the twitch of his ears. She was searching for any clue as to what was going on in his mind for there were so many possibilities. What he actually said was probably the last thing she would have expected, and it left her both speechless and even more clueless as to where to go from there.

Elwood slowly admitted that he too was apparently fucking stupid. She wanted to disagree, although even moreso she was curious as to why he would say that about himself. After a moment, she pushed herself up onto her haunches. Her ears were pulled back in humility as she took a few seconds to stare at her paws and gather herself. As much as she had rehearsed her apology in her head, she somehow lost every one of the words she'd tried so hard to commit to memory. There was only one thing that she could find within her to say, and were it not for how desperately her heart hummed with it, she might have remained perfectly silent in that winter-lit grotto for the rest of her days.

"Please don't leave..." Fin said softly, shivering in a way that had nothing to do with the cold.