Hit me harder than expected
Noir
04-24-2020, 10:23 AM
The polite pleasantries that had been firmly ingrained into her brain forced her to give him a small smile and nod as if to give a silent 'hello', attempting to give him the be benefit of the doubt. It felt impossible for her to assume any kind of bad intentions in the stranger. She told herself that perhaps he had been about to come over to say hello himself when she looked up or maybe their gazes just happened to lock at the same time. She had no way to know how long he had been standing there watching her. It seemed irrational for her to be concerned about someone she didn't even know yet.
The terminally pleasant woman padded around the pool of water in front of her to move a bit closer to him, but she still left a healthy amount of space between them. She was unexplainably friendly, but that didn't mean she was careless. "Hello there," she said to him, offering the larger male a warm smile as she came to a stop once again, putting her own initial reservations aside in her never ending attempts to make friends. At least this time he hadn't caught her tripping over her own paws or playing in the mud like a child like the last few strangers she had crossed paths with so at the very least she had that going for her. Plus, her coat was freshly washed and laying perfectly along her body so she knew she appeared as lovely as she felt for once. Everything was looking up this time, right?
