Aftermath

Walk | Talk | Think

He seemed to react little to her lying beside him, and for that she was grateful. She had half expected him to make a big production of her little show of trust or think too far into it, but he merely stayed still, watching the skies as he seemed so accustomed to doing. He was such a strange character to her, a slightly more righteous version of her twin, but with enough there to make her want to roll her eyes at him rather than take a piece of his ear to get him to go away. Maybe she could learn to deal with him and keep him around, a stand in to her brother who used to keep her temper in check. Was that possible?

For a second time, he drifted into the stream, leaving her there upon the banks. Yin lifted her head from her curled up position and watched him as he began to fish for a second time, intently yet calmly staring into the waters while waiting for the right moment to slip his muzzle fully below the surface and drag up a shining, wriggling fish. He made it look so easy and just a little she felt a twinge of envy. How did he do that?

Fish in tow, he wandered back, returning to his position beside her though this time leaving a gap between them. Had her originally closing that distance been too much for him too fast? Was that not his way of showing trust? Or perhaps this was a matter of respect as she had made it clear she did prefer to be alone. Either way she chose not to comment on it. "You seem good at that," she remarked, extending one leg to rest her chin upon it while she watched him eat. "I've never tried fish before today." Of course, she had seen others do so - she had grown up beside a river after all - but her own taste for meat had mainly been pointed at the creatures living on land within the forest instead of below the water.