Something weird happens when Stacia makes eye-contact with Bunny.
Well, not weird if she realizes that it's not the eye contact that's made him freeze absolutely momentarily still, pupils shrunk to pinpoints, thousand-yard staring right through her. Its that he caught a whiff of her scent.
Her absolutely not just a human child scent. Her grabs-his-survival-instinct-by-the-neck-and-squeezes scent.
The freeze lasts less than a second. He masters the fear and breathes through it, gathering more information, eyes narrowing as he watches her approach and her body language closely.
"Suppose y'could color your nails with hair dye," he says, tone casual, but body language telegraphing I'm watching you. I'm ready. I'm not backing down. "Wonder if it'd do the same for claws."
He flexes his own stubby black claws in demonstration, with a disarming half smile, not in threat, just to emphasize - this is a normal thought for him to pose. This is a normal conversation they're having, which is why they're having it so quietly.
Quietly because hey, she is absolutely something more predatory than what she seems, but she's in the same captive boat he is. He's not interested in giving Jorgmund any information they don't already have, and a wolf may wear a girl's clothing without deserving to be sold out.
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Well, not weird if she realizes that it's not the eye contact that's made him freeze absolutely momentarily still, pupils shrunk to pinpoints, thousand-yard staring right through her. Its that he caught a whiff of her scent.
Her absolutely not just a human child scent. Her grabs-his-survival-instinct-by-the-neck-and-squeezes scent.
The freeze lasts less than a second. He masters the fear and breathes through it, gathering more information, eyes narrowing as he watches her approach and her body language closely.
"Suppose y'could color your nails with hair dye," he says, tone casual, but body language telegraphing I'm watching you. I'm ready. I'm not backing down. "Wonder if it'd do the same for claws."
He flexes his own stubby black claws in demonstration, with a disarming half smile, not in threat, just to emphasize - this is a normal thought for him to pose. This is a normal conversation they're having, which is why they're having it so quietly.
Quietly because hey, she is absolutely something more predatory than what she seems, but she's in the same captive boat he is. He's not interested in giving Jorgmund any information they don't already have, and a wolf may wear a girl's clothing without deserving to be sold out.
"You would know, wouldn't you?"