Don't Need Help

He was so quiet, his ears folding against his head as she spoke quickly, perhaps a little bit frenetically. Had she frightened him? Was she just going too fast? She couldn't tell what was making him shrink away, shaking his head. If he wasn't lost, then he was certainly too far from home. If only his parents knew where he was, but then... maybe they just weren't around. They could have been killed by something, or maybe they had died of hunger in this harsh season. Or maybe, just maybe, this young boy had found himself alone by circumstances much crueler than being orphaned. Perhaps he had been abandoned.

As she looked into his silver eyes with her own, she could see the bitterness in his gaze glaring back at her. He made not a sound, but his sweet puppy eyes glistened and revealed the pain within. Something awful had happened to him and he wasn't ready to talk yet. Bright tried to think back to the time, so long ago, when Blue Starfire had found her and taken her in. She'd respected and loved the woman the moment they'd met. Could she do the same for this boy? Perhaps he wouldn't feel the same, but she must try.

"You don't need to worry about me, sweety," she assured him, trying to shuffled just a little bit closer, reaching her nose toward him gently. She wanted to embrace the poor, shivering pup, to take him home and give him everything he needed, but she knew she could not force him. She couldn't blame him if he had no reason or desire to trust her. "Are you hungry?" she asked - it was obvious that he was, but she would let him say so if he wanted to accept her help.