Whats in a future

It didn’t take long for Shae to stop, convinced to remain. Sera could help herself from casting a weary glance around. She didn’t get any closer to the stranger. From here she could catch her scent, and she caught no traces of her father on the woman's coat. Just of the pack that lay near here. If she was pack, then surely she was safe, and not a prawn, right?

When she brought her attention back to Shae, half convinced that this wasn’t a trap, she caught the way the other girl looked down. Demure, uncertain. Her heart hurt again, knowing she had looked just like that once. Submissive, shy, afraid. “Shae…” she asked, and swallowed. Shae was a stranger, and it was so much better to leave it that way. don’t get involved, don’t get involved “...is someone hurting you?”


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