A Simple Thank You

*Tahlia* · 08-13-2013, 08:29 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

His intent may have not been to disturb her and mess up her fishing trip, at least temporarily, but things tended - as Tahlia knew - not to always go the way they were planned. The best that could be done, she had learned, was to move on and keep your sights ahead, always looking for the next best thing to come along. And as far as she was concerned a little catch up with the once-wounded Bane would not be a bad second. Their meeting before had been one solely out of necessity, at least in his case, and Tahlia had been the closest wolf on hand to assist him with the branch that had impaled his side. Now, healed and well, there was more opportunity, and knowing she needed more friends inside of her pack she was happy to entertain his company.

It seemed he was quite eager to see her as well, not even bothering to remain on the lake shore as she came toward him but walking out into the waters to meet her half way. The smile about her face was genuinely amused when he admitted to wishing to thank her - sincerely - for what she had done for him, stating that his attempt before had not been enough. In his condition at the time, she had found his ability to remain conscious a feat in and of itself; she couldn't imagine him doing anything else to repay her for assisting him. And though she did like to think it was she alone who had played the most pivotal role in his saving, she would have been useless had he not been able to give her instruction. He would have died then likely, and she would have stood by without a way to save him.

The golden eyed she-wolf stopped amid the shallows as Bane reached her, admitting that, had she not been there, he wouldn't have been here now. And to an extent, she knew he told the truth. But boasting of her own successes, even to someone else who acknowledged them too, just seemed too much in her eyes. She liked much more the effect modesty gave off instead. He sniffed at her cheeks, her eyes closing gently before she peered back out at him again with another of her smiles. "Your thanks are repayment enough," she answered with a giggling laugh, quite sure she recognized where his thoughts had wandered. It was a bold way of thinking, if his thoughts truly paralleled her own.

But perhaps her thoughts were merely getting away from her, coursing back around to her desire to finally have a family again and making her assume she saw things there that truly were not. It was possible, she supposed, but there were still ways to test and see. "Though I would wager you will not be satisfied until actions speak for actions," she answered him after a pause, her low tones colored curiously with question. Vagueness worked in this instance, just in case she had misread him, but if his mind did make any correlation at all with what she had thought then he would understand. Golden eyes boldly meeting his, her smile muted as she asked her question, Tahlia wondered where his mind currently wandered and what had been his true intent in seeking her out.

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