Blacktail Deer Plateau deep breaths

One of the best rambling wrecks I've ever had to read =D I'll leave it up to you whether you want to continue this or fade away! I'm good with either -thumbsup-

"That's kind of what I was hoping for I guess," he said with a nod of agreement. "Something to replace the family I left back home. No luck so far." The revelation left an acrid taste in his mouth but he did not allow it to linger...instead bobbing his muzzle to acknowledge the lone wolf's gratitude for his honesty. He wished himself a better liar. He wanted to craft these marvelous stories that would make her truly consider joining...if only to satisfy his loneliness in the end. But he'd been a wild thing once, too. And she did not deserve a cage gilded by the misleading propaganda of another.

However it was the velvety lull of her voice coupled with sincerity beneath her touch that seemed to lure him away from the siren's call of despair. Ax's ship did not crash against the rocks. He cranium lifted and when he looked at her his eyes were still as feeble lanterns in the daylight but a new fire was kindling deep within them...their muted intensity building on the premise of renewed spirit.

He wanted to thank her for what was obviously a gesture beyond normal for her. He wanted to forge poetic verse upon his tongue and express to her truly what it meant for her to have reached out. And had he settled on that impulse for more than a second or two he might've actually articulated a half-decent prose...but he was a guy. The mushiness of his heart was gobbled up in a single snap of young pride and his thespian future quieted without anyone ever being called to its witness.

"...you really think my eyes are beautiful?" he murmured with forced girlishness that followed the theme of his batting lashes. Of course he knew she'd said no such thing specifically; but it was not a sentiment he left her room to clarify. Spinning around with a laugh he launched into their neutral grounds and into the unkempt foliage with a bark daring her to catch him if she could.

set by Emy