He could sense a sort of kinship with her that he didn't bother questioning; she was no soft-willed wolf of the southern lands, like so many he had met on his journey thus far. Something about her was comforting, and he relaxing in her presence, despite her being a stranger in relatively tight quarters. "No?" he'd reply in light response to her opinion. He didn't love the place much, either. "I prefer the open sky myself. Something about these sort of places is quite interesting though, too," Aki offered conversationally with a gentle shrug of his wide shoulders.
He knew little of her - where she was from, what sort of things she enjoyed. But it didn't stop him from talking, his head tipping let him examine the ceiling of the cave for a moment in the darkness. "It does feel a bit spiritual to be surrounded by the earth," he admitted gingerly, a faint sigh falling from his lips. He could feel the life emanating from the stone itself, and he smiled lightly as he considered it. "If not rather claustrophobic at times." The strangeness of this place was only further accentuated by the sound of water in the distance; a slow, echoing drip somewhere deeper in the caverns.
