Tea too hot to spill

Well Crux had dug his grave hadn't he? Might as well lie in it. Especially if there was in fact something for Kite to share. "Deal." He wanted to give her a grin, but he was still pretty damn embarrassed. "Um, so I don't remember if you remember when they uh, had to send someone to get me during the flood because I was stranded?" He and Triss had had just had to wait for aid once they'd been pulled from the water and made sure they were both safe. Safe, not well. "There was a girl with me... Uh her name is Cryptis, she's from Insomnia..."

What did he even say? That they kept running into each other when one of them was having some kind of crisis? That they had first bonded with each other by commiserating about their disabilities? That her paw on his felt so warm and comforting? That he'd told her he thought she was beautiful? Crux cast his gaze downwards for a moment, overwhelmed. "She's the one who, found me " He lifted a forepaw to just barely touch the exposed skin of his scar. "So I guess she's the first one to get to-" Crux cut himself off suddenly very aware of the words he'd said, and praying his sister hadn't caught their meaning. That there were more than one wolf he'd had some kind of entanglement with.

"Speech" "Riya"