It all came crashing down

She chuckled wryly at his humor.
"I guess I'm suited for it, then." She half shrugged her right shoulder, the pain not quite as bad. What else she was good for?

He reached his paw out for her, she was a little confused because she hasn't asked her question yet, why would he cuff her now? But after she did he pulled it back so fast she pulled her ears down and tucked her head to brace herself for a harsher cuff this time. It didn't come.

He instead answered her question. When he turned away, his breathing quick, she didn't know why she did it but she softly placed her tiny golden paw over his massive black one. Saying nothing else. Mostly because she didn't know what to say, also because... They had both been discarded it seemed. It's not easy to feel that alone.