serence ice fox wrote:For don't know how long , Serenade just stayed like that , sitting in Duke's embracement , feels like she might have doze off some time in between , did she ? The fox couldn't even tell....
Finally , once she's calmed down enough , Serenade opened her eyes , still couldn't bring herself to push Duke away though
"....Duke?....*ahem* , sorry , for , you know , freaking out like that , really didn't mean to put our first encounter to be in such a bad mood . It's just that , it's been so long....since I can actually talk to anyone . Because of how I look I had to hide from the humans , and their pets , a lot , this town is only the 3th one I dared to come in this year so far . Most of the others....ferals I mean , they....well they did what they needed survive , some of them are even foxes like us , and I had to stay alive too.....even the very few who wanted to help couldn't gave me anything more than a bit of food and perhaps a place to spend the night , but they had their families and I needed to keep going , so that's all they could have done for me , I guess after such a long time ,the stress just getting to me for a moment , and seeing someone like you , like this , well......I don't know...."
Time passed and Duke couldn't push away either, in a way he felt that he could talk better like this, calmer and smoother he spoke after hearing Serenade.
"I understand......but you'll always have a place here. Whatever you have to do, wherever you have to go, this can be your home"
He almost felt on the verge of tears again but kept them back, thinking of what she had said. She talked about her appearance like there was something wrong, she looked wonderful to him but what could make her hide from others, what would make her wear a cloak like this, or sneak into the lake, or into the bushes. He didn't come up with an answer as he just occupied his thoughts with seeing her again, or even the horrible thought of not.