I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

This was a very simple job and one of course that he had picked up by pure chance. A woman had lost her steed as he had taken off leaving her. She luckily was at a small little village and he had happened to have over heard her story. For the right price he had agreed to go looking for the horse that was lucky to be alive at this point. He wondered what would have brought the woman clear out in the woods anyways let alone to be trusting a horse to not throw her at the very first sign of trouble. If there wasn't a path and the horse had a clear spook factor he was nine times out of ten walking the beast. No less it was an easy pay and it would be the first time in weeks since he had coin. Since he had of course..... Last seen Branwen.

That damn woman. He knew he should be mad at her but he couldn't even as he sat there and tried to think of all the negatives. Truthfully he just felt utterly foolish for trusting a wolf. That was like trusting a fox to not steal a chicken. It just was in the nature of some. No less he was wiser now and of course going to try and not be so gullible. He didn't really try to be it was just something about her drew him and once he was snagged by her hook there was no going back.

He continued on following the trail of what he thought was taking him straight to the horse. It hadn't been that hard of a thing to find. Animals were clumsy things and weren't very aware of what tracks they were leaving behind. All he needed was the area she was thrown. He walked along looking for any signs of a horse but what he saw instead of a dress in the middle of a trail. The dress was also bouncing around as if something was caught under it or rather in it. Heading towards it carefully not knowing what to expect he carefully moved to peer in and what met him was a stark white rabbit. "Looks like you are tangled." he said. His voice was quiet and soft as he moved on to his knees and got his small dagger out. "Hold still. I will cut you loose." He then moved carefully and grabbed the rope as close to her neck as possible but not trying to cut her. "almost got it." and then with that the rope snapped and she was loose. "there! free!" He sat back a bit on his ankles and scooped her up petting her head. She was soft and for a moment he completely forgot the fact she was in a dress.

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I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

The dress was long forgotten once he had the rabbit in his hands. Fingers rubbed and petted the smell head of the creature as he was in utter awe of how calm it seemed to be. Was it someones pet? He didn't even feel the muscles in the tiny creature as stiffened anymore. Soon the rabbit was almost rubbing into his fingers apparently liking the petting he was doing which made him grin like a fool. "Mm.." It was a nice distraction from his head and the thoughts that ran around it. At least that was until he was startled by a voice that rang loud in his head. Instantly he dropped the rabbit from his hands causing her to fall a very short distance to the ground."Shit!" once he realized what he had done however immediate regret replaced the shock. "Sorry, I didn't mean to drop you. Just shocked me a little bit." He leaned a little on his hands looking down at the rabbit. He should have known it was too good to be true for a wild rabbit to be as calm as she was. "and sorry for petting you." He felt rather silly now. Petting another person seemed in other words.... awkward. She was still a cute little thing and he couldn't help the very charmed feeling he got by such a small dwarfed rabbit. "I suppose that explains the dress then." he said looking back towards the crumpled material on the ground before back at her. "How long were you like that? I'm glad you are okay."

His fingers itched to pet her again. However, it was things like this that seemed to get him into trouble with were-animal... humans.... whatever they were. He couldn't help but be such an animal person. They relaxed him and was easy to be around. No less he sat backwards now. "This seems to be a silly place for a rabbit. You could have easily gotten snatched. What are you doing out here anyways?" He was prying. he knew he was prying but he couldn't stop himself from asking. "Oh hey have you happened to see a horse coming through?" Suddenly he remembered what he was initially doing before becoming ever distracted by the tiny thing.

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He really enjoyed her soft fur. It was amazing how such a tiny thing could bring such comfort. His fingers were itching to pet her soft fur again but now that he knew she was an actual human it just seemed a little weird to him even if she confessed she was starting to like it. He chuckled at her confession, his bright eyes now turning deeper in green color. Such a warm spirit could really cheer just about anyone up. He was glad he ran into her. She seemed so cheerful and kind. It was people like her he needed to surround himself with and get rid of that bad vibes that seemed to be hassling him. "well I am glad you are not hurt." would have been pretty devistating to know she was or worse if it eventually ended her life. Even if there was the whole circle of life aspect the fact he learned she was human was just making the scenerio all the more worse.

Her next statement though kind of made him a little puzzled. "How do you 'sort of' live someplace?" he asked curiously. It was an odd thing to say because well it was either you did live there or you didn't not a middle ground of well maybe I do. "Or is that your way of saying you wandered a little too far and you are kinda lost?"

It was a bummer though that she hadn't seen a horse sauntering through. Just his luck the dumb thing probably got caught in one of these itself. If there is traps around in the area it was likely not that far fetched of an idea for the horse to get tangled into one. Her next idea was pretty brilliant though and he beamed a bit, perking a little as he leaned down to look at her. He felt pretty silly leaning over her like that since he didn't see himself as someone above her. she was his equal. "That would be great if you could help. I would really appreciate it, Larkin." he said. "You want me to pick you up? If... if you are okay with that." He found himself getting a little red faced. Yeah it was weird... really weird. She was a human even if right now she looked like an animal and the only person he had recently even had any contact with was well gone. She left him in her dust. He still didn't wanna cross boundaries he shouldn't.

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