Haunted Wood When will they learn this lonliness

He watched as she moved carefully around him. She had him on edge. She was unpredictability in the flesh. It wheedled underneath his skin like a itch. And though it filled him with a sense of wariness. It also stoked those fires that the unknown always  did. The adrenaline of the moment, leaking in to color out all other rational thought. This was a challenge and he enjoyed it.

There it was she turned and was set upon him, but he didn't sense danger beneath her veneer. No this seemed like play. He dodged and whisked around, quickly to his feet and snapped back ,but met no flesh. And with a careful prance, moved around her, and bowed low on her other side.

She wanted to play, okay. He could play.