Did you leave something behind?

And there is was. He gave her a sad smile, but it was a smile nonetheless. They weren't strangers and new friends, as much a he might wish to pretend otherwise. She was a wolf who didn't forgive him.

Her polite refused was met with a dip of his head "Of course." He agreed, knowing there would be no later. He glanced back at her fish eating friend. He would miss the tanuki's company too, but returning him had been right. "Don't hesitate to call if you need me, Hanako." He said, finding a polite distance in her full name. She could hurt him a hundred times, but he would still fight for her. But maybe that's was more who he was, and who he wanted to be. She had given him a strength, in hurting him.

"Good day to you, Miss Hanako." He said, his wings spreading from his body as he dipped his head to the woman, and brushed gently past her, moving towards the Armada beach.