Silver Creek Pencils and Pens

Her silence was expected, and he didn't try to fill it with anything himself. The past was there, it was not something that faded as easily as someone might think. It would always be behind him, be apart of who he was and who he would be. He nodded as she commented, then smiled a little and looked up at her. 

"I'm glad you did have Laika, Spring. Traveling alone wasn't horrible before I got hurt. After though, it was a struggle to stay alive physically and mentally. It would have been nice to have someone there, a reason to carry on before I could find a reason within myself." And then he decided to move away from the darkness of those words, from the lost place he had been before he found his will to live again. "I didn't know Laika came with you originally. All the way from your birth pack?"