Sweater Weather

“No.” He said, and laid down on his stomach to show that he was not a threat. “I’m a healer, I came to help you.” He said, and let his tail curl against his leg, letting the tip thump lightly against the ground. “I brought this for you.”He said, and gestured toward the hare, then shifted to lean more to his side, his hip turning to rest on the ground. There was a method to his subtle shifts in posture, something he understood and would have recognized if he had been approached the same way; a wolf resting on its hip took longer to rise and would have a harder time charging after someone.

He turned his head away, making a show of staring off into the distance to let Epitaph take the hare without fear of instant retaliation, while exposing his throat.

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