Lover's Song

Hymn felt a twinge of guilt as his laugh prompted the insect perched upon the alabaster woman’s nose to flit away but he was still too amused by the scene to really show it. A small vocalization slipped from her lips as she watched it flying off and he too lifted his gaze to track it’s path. The bugs danced around them, briefly startled by his outburst no doubt but it was likely they’d drift back in closer soon enough.

The woman wagged her tail in return offering up a vocal greeting which he matched with a dip of his head. Then she questioned his words and he tipped his head to the side. "Well they don’t shock you either but sometimes I hear them being called lightning bugs." He thought about it for a moment, plopping onto his haunches. "I think they’re called that because the way they blink looks like embers… or at least that’s what I’m told." He had never been face to face with a fire which was probably a good thing; he had seen the smoke when lightning had struck parts of the forest certainly but no embers to be seen.

"I’m Hymn Destruction by the way." He brought his thoughts back to the white woman and gave a friendly smile. She didn’t smell like any pack he knew, not that he knew many of them anyways… but he was very curious about where this wolf had come from that she didn’t know about fireflies.