Lift Me Up

Arcturus certainly wasn't surprised when Vanille confirmed that she did in fact live alone, but it did at least make him even more sure of his decision to invite her along with his family. It wasn't out of pity or a feeling of being sorry for her, but more just out of wanting to help and to give her somewhere to be. She could obviously get by on her own, but he didn't feel like it was right for her to have to work so hard just to feed herself when he was more than willing to help and he just knew his family wouldn't mind her spending time with them. When she agreed to come around and spend time with them a genuine grin pulled across his lips and his tail wagged against the ground behind him, giving away how glad he was for it. Yeah? Um... I mean, yeah, that'd be great," he replied, quickly realizing how over eager he sounded and reeling himself back in to try and keep himself from looking too silly.

He tried to hide some of his excitement as he looked back down at the fish he was cooking and started to flip them over to cook on the other side. He felt like a pup getting excited about a friend coming to stay the night or something like that, but considering he hadn't really had that for most of his childhood it was kind of nice to feel that again. The last time he really remembered feeling like this was when his dad took him for a sleep over in his den and they did all that training and patrols the day after. His expression sobered a little bit as he thought about his father, but a little smile still lingered on his lips while he worked on their meal and started to pull the filets off of the stone they were cooking on and splitting them between him and Vanille. "I hope they're good. It's always so hard to judge when fish is cooked enough," he said with a little chuckle before he started breaking off pieces of the fish in front of him and lifting them to his mouth with his paw so he wouldn't have to worry about catching his saber fangs on the ground while he ate.

"Arcturus Indarra"