Sweet as pie

Everything Gypsy said and did seemed so quiet and delicate. Between that and her tiny, tiny size and stature it really made it difficult to want to do anything other than guard and protect her. He had kind of gathered in the time that he had spent with Indigo and the wolves he collected that all of them had some kind of dark past or trauma and watching Gypsy daintily eating a strawberry it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to hurt such a sweet woman. Obviously she had been in some way, otherwise what would have made her this incredibly timid? He would never ask though, not wanting to bring up any pain for her.

When she asked about his sisters he hesitated for a moment as he figured out how he should word some kind of explanation, using the berry he was finishing as an excuse for taking a moment to reply. Sharing his past with Indigo had been a moment of weakness and vulnerability. He wasn't against sharing it, but he didn't want to do anything that might frighten or make Gypsy afraid of him. "After our father died they all kind of scattered to the wind," he told her finally. It wasn't a lie and it was more or less what had happened, but he just couldn't bear to tell her that he had been the one that had killed him. If he saw the same fear in her face as he had seen in Saiph's he thought that might break him. "I've been on my own since then. Well, until I found Indigo, of course."

He glanced around the room for a moment and asked, "Are you okay in your room here? Would you like to go out to the courtyard? I don't mind coming by during the day and helping you out there if you want to get some fresh air." He certainly wouldn't press the matter if she was genuinely content here, but if it was just a matter of not having anyone to help her around then he was more than happy to be her guide whenever she needed.

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