Blacktail Deer Plateau We're gonna build a wall

He confirmed it and she felt a surge of guilt. She wanted to apologise, to say she should have came after him but she knew it hadn't even been possible. She had been knocked out for a week. Yet she had woken up assuming he left instead of being concerned. She was torn between guilt and the logic that she couldn't have done anything. The guilt faded as he leaned into her touch and she felt her heartbeat hammer rapidly inside her chest, a sickening ticklish feeling inside her stomach growing as he said he missed her. She pulled away eyes wide as her fur heated for a moment, looking away "I missed you too...even when it hurt." she admitted. She noticed how open he was being with her and felt warmth surge through her. "I recruited one of my friends. His name is Issun, he helped me through it." she wondered why she felt bad about admitting she made a new friend, that she had gotten close to another male why he was gone.

She knew the signs, she remembered them well. The beginning of her feelings slowly going from platonic to something deeper. She panicked internally, her eyes widening and breath shaking. She didn't want to feel like that again, didn't want to risk hurting even worse than if she simply lost a friend. She didn't realise she was zoning out and looking very Spacey and frightened, like a deer frozen in headlights.