I Could Stop Time

Walk | Talk | Think
 
The brown youth felt eased by the young lady's smile, grateful that she did not at least reflect any sort of irritation or disappointment that he had chosen to wander upon her by accident and be drawn into a conversation with her. In his own way, he was glad. The conversation had so far been enjoyable for him too, the company as well, and he was glad he had taken his detour here and that she should be as glad or equally so. It was not often that he made friends or acquaintances outside of his family circle - becoming infatuated with the red-colored wolf and then kidnapped into her pack were about as close as he came - but this was different. This felt safer. 

Just vaguely she allowed him a slim view into the makings of her tribe, referring to her leader as a Goddess before using a simpler term that he could understand. Goddess. Did this earth-colored female and her tribe believe in gods and goddesses? Did they believe in divine entities as he did - or once had? He still did not know where his beliefs rested and for the moment did not care, though the idea that others might share a similar belief system to the one he had grown up around drew his interest. But now, however, so soon after meeting this wolf and when she seemed reluctant to speak of her life in its proper terms - she had looked too surprised for her change in word choice to have been a way of making him understand - was not a time to ask about it. 

"Oh," he replied, hoping he did not sound overly relieved that she had time yet to stay. Requiem had no idea where he planned to go from here, and the longer he remained in her company the longer he could push off needing to think about the troublesome thoughts of finding a shelter, missing Sawtooth, and feeling lonely as he once again adjusted to being alone. "If...if you don't have anywhere else to be for a while," he stated, his voice giving away the bit of doubt he felt that she might not have other things to do, "would you care to join me while I try to find a den for the night?" She likely had a better idea about these lands than he did, and even if she decided not to help him just having someone else around while he looked would have been nice.