setting the mood

Illuminated by the glow of the bioluminescence around him, Kuroo sat distracted. Staring at the surface of the small stream at his paws, he watched his reflection ripple and distort. What was he even doing here anyway? His reflection wasn't going to be responding any time soon. There would be no answers to his inner qualms. Sighing softly, Kuroo lifted a splattered paw to break the surface of the water. Watching the light spread farther from being disturbed, his mouth twisted into a slight frown. Normally, he would be enjoying this sort of area, but it was difficult with his mind weighing so heavily on recent events.

Pulled from his inner dwellings by the sound of lumbering paws squelching on the muddy ground, Kuroo glanced up. At first, his expression stayed unchanged as the larger male approached. Oddly enough, he sort of looked like his brother but in a more attractive and appealing way. Meeting those fiery eyes for a moment, he forced himself to look away until the stranger promptly sat down and dropped the deer leg. Listening to it thunk made his eyes shift back. He could feel those ember eyes roving over his fur and he couldn't tell if he should be self-conscious or not. Kuroo was used to the stares. The vitiligo that covered his body made his fur stand out slightly, but not in such a way that it was garish.

One ear did pull in the direction of the stranger at the sound of his deep timbre of a voice. What a lovely sound. The thought crossed his mind for a moment before he fully turned his chin to smile back at him. "Indeed. Where I'm from, we don't have waters like this so I enjoy watching it," Kuroo's mid-baritone voice replied with that all too familiar accent. Forcing himself not to stare too much at the other male, Kuroo made himself look back over to the water.