tollofinnocence:
“I would say I have a stronger connection with him, if we are implying who it comes from.”
She knew him far better than he could ever know her, after all. Charity smiled at the other. A General, going by the golden accents to the outfit she wore. When her eyes fell on Lau, the corner of her mouth twitched.
“Lau.” Her voice was almost too polite. “Good to see you again. I hope you haven’t caused anyone else to sit at the bottom of a well for two hundred years?”
Subtlety in the frozen posture of her animal partner was not lost to a general’s eye. Blue as cool as the ocean waters flicked over to the still form, raising one hand to rub the crest of his white fur as she returned her attention to the innocence at hand.
“ I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it. And if he did ... he won’t be trying it again. ”
Ignoring the soft chitter of a monkey trying to speak his mind - apparently still less than regretful in harbored emotions. So the trainer’s companion truly was taken over by innocence in full. A harrowing thought if she chose to dwell on it.
“ He might get heated, but I wouldn’t work with him if he didn’t know how to listen. ”