Aftermath

Walk | Talk | Think

No sooner than he noticed she was awake he was walking back inside the den, coming around her side to settle there next to her and wrap his tail around her haunches. She watched him as he did it, feeling strangely odd with how easily he took up the position compared to all the tentativeness from the night before. It felt oddly...intimate, though the gesture itself was small. Or was she perhaps reading too far into it? He had meant it in nothing more than friendship the first time; it was likely that was still the case.

Without knowing, Yin let her gaze shift away from the male and back to the rabbit he had hunted for her, listening as he explained why he had done it and how things were done within the home he used to have. She was not used to this way of life in any way. She was used to being self-sufficient, of needing no one to feed her, shelter her, care for her. How strange it was to sit back and not need to fetch herself a meal, for it to simply show up without her even being aware it was on its way. Thanks were not necessarily her style, but she was grateful despite not voicing it aloud. With only a nod of her head, she reached a paw out and brought the hare closer, beginning to eat from it.

It tasted more delicious than she had anticipated, possibly because she had not needed to go through the effort of catching it for herself. She hardly felt right eating in front of Klypso though, knowing that he himself had yet to eat and if he had gone through the trouble of getting this rabbit then he had to be hungry too. Licking her lips, Yin stopped eating to speak. "You don't have to watch me eat," she informed him, quite certain she would be fine finishing her rabbit alone if he wished to get himself a meal now. Somehow she would need to make it up to him, this unnecessary generosity. It was what she would have done for Yang; it felt just as pertinent in this situation too.