Rise from Destruction

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"Oh..." Kyrie blushed deep yet as he corrected her for addressing him in a proper term, her hands taking a nervous twitch to pull at the edge of her scarf directing her gaze downwards. She didn't want to offend him, but it was... it was strange to call someone by their first name when she knew next.... no she knew nothing of them. It seemed so rude, but that was her teaching. She was never to address someone by their first name unless she was familiar with them, otherwise it was always Mister this or Madam that. That was hard training to suddenly push aside. But she would try. "I will do that Mis-" Kyrie stopped, turned away and nodded quickly. "Kade." Okay that was weird. Weird name without the formality! Oh the humanity! Well maybe not that drastic.

She had to move quickly to keep up with his longer strides and with how tired she still felt that was like running a marathon, but the woman didn't complain. She would not complain!

But she listened, watching the lizard barbed tail swaying back and forth trying not to trip over the darn thing as she kept back a ways, Kyrie blinked as she briskly looked to him about the settlement. "But..." she thought he said when they first met that three days back that he was attacked and it was close to the settlement. How safe was that place honestly from peculiars? No where was safe from peculiars! Again Kyrie decided to silence up and just accept what he said. He knew more than her easily. "Okay, Kade." Weird informal name coming out of her mouth again!

She returned to watching his curious tail, tempted terribly to want to touch the very thing, curious if it was like a snake's tail or was it like a bearded dragon tail or or even an iguana tail. The options were limitless, well they were when he stopped so suddenly and she began to flail her arms out wildly tripping over the said tail.

"Eep!" Kyrie plopped right down to her rear end as she quickly pulled in her legs and arms ready to cower for her clumsy ways and tripping over him, her eyes snapped shut out of habit and cringed. Though it was his growled tone of words that popped open her sights and looked to him. A sadness took to her face as she nodded meekly to the sentiment he spoke, the woman of duo tone eyes looked to his hand that was holding something out for her. She instantly recognized the simple chain, a single ring looped around the bronze-y chain that was from what she recalled many times of asking her father, her mother's wedding ring.

Simple band with a single stone of diamond in it, Kyrie gently took it from Kade pressing her lips tight together as she brought the very thing into a clutch of hands and held it close to her chest. There was a silence for a time as Kyrie bit her lip to stop from the blubbering that wanted to ensue; she easily took about five minutes before she could regain composure and tossed him a very personal, very heartbroken yet adoring look. "Thank you." she whispered happily enough even though it was echoing on the twinge of sorrow, Kyrie was appreciative for the gesture alone.

Seriously and he was suppose to be animalistic, certainly didn't seem that way to her.
 
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Clumsy little thing she was. He'd have to have her walk more to the side of him and up by him if he wanted to avoid things like that again. He tried to ignore the way she'd curled up, had flinched away, telling himself it wasn't personal and didn't matter, but somehow it stung a bit. It always did when someone cringed away from him. Not that he couldn't say he didn't deserve it, not after the things he'd done, what he looked like, what he was.

When she took the chain, though...he'd never seen such a look on anyone's face directed to him, not even when he'd been human. It tugged at him, at the humanity in him and Kade swallowed hard, but nodded, lips pressed firmly together. He'd wait for her to come to grips in silence and now he reached down and took her arm, pulling her up in a rather abrupt and yet not harmful way in silence. His clawed hand released her instantly afterward and he avoided her eyes as he turned away and started to walk again.

He didn't know what to say.

She'd thanked him and yet...he'd done nothing. He'd given her a part of her father that would never measure up to her father himself. He hadn't been able to save any of her people but her. And now...now he'd outright lied. He didn't know how far the human settlement was. He'd come from the east...or maybe south, he wasn't sure...and he'd told the humans that there was a place for their kind in the west. He didn't know how far, though. He'd only said it to try and give the woman some hope because after three days...it wouldn't matter whether other Peculiars found them or not. She'd have one right here to deal with.

So he said nothing....but he did slow his pace. They had a long way to go and she technically shouldn't have been up on her feet anyway.
 
Finding herself hauled to her feet rather immediately, Kyrie couldn't help but think she had done something wrong in that moment. Man she a great way of making things more screwy than they already were.

Pulling down the scarf to put the chain around her own neck, Kyrie dropped her gaze to the ground to follow him yet again. What did she do now? She came on too strong right, like a bumbling fool that didn't know when and where to know what to say or how to say it. Or she just made him uncomfortable, she was good at that. She was used to people avoiding looking at her, this was nothing new.

God she was such an loser, man you'd think in even a wasteland apocalypse that she might have been able to do something right. Ugh!

Fingers picked back at the hem of the scarf, pulling the ratty pieces off as if it would do something to save the article but really it would only hurry it's unraveling. She felt a squeeze of immeasurable guilt well up in her chest, threatening to snuff out her heart with one beat away, Kyrie tossed a look under her hair to him. "I didn't mean..." Kyrie wrinkled her nose stopping herself from letting out a pathetic little sigh, "Sorry I'm an idiot." The emotional urge to cry, to hide took hard on her shoulders. She hated being the goofball in the situations. Waste of skin as it were.
 
Wait, what?

Kade stopped again and this time when she nearly bumped into him, the end of his tail touched her mid-sternum, stopping her far more gently this time and giving her time to steady as she looked up again. He was frowning slightly at her, puzzled more than anything by her words and his head tilted. "How are you an idiot?" As far as he could tell, she'd done nothing stupid EXCEPT for leaving off on her own and he couldn't really blame her for that one. He probably wouldn't have stayed with him either in her shoes, not after watching one of his kind tear into everything she loved. No, he wouldn't be blaming her for that one.

But what else did she think she'd done?

Were women this hard for him to understand when he'd been human?

Kade watched Kyrie for a long moment and he thought maybe he understood something then. He took a shot at it, knowing that the worst that could happen is that he once again would not understand what was going on, but he already felt that way anyway. "Kyrie, you didn't offend me. I just...I don't...I haven't talked to anyone in a long time. I don't always....know what to say or how to...react anymore."

His fingers flexed against his leg, claws digging into the fabric of his jeans on his thigh, nervous, agitated.
 
A small meep came from her at being stopped by the tail taking more of a large curious look to the very thing, like a child would with a shiny object, fingers lifted to touch only to retract and lean away when he repeated nearly what she said. She didn't look to him really, cautious to look through her hair at him before he began to explain.

She tilted her head like a dog to a high pitched sound, flushed her favorite colour of red and nodded with an apology quick to her tongue. She might have been silly in many ways, but she was smart enough to sense the agitation that was coming from him. So she kept silent, at first.

"I... yeah." she shook her head swallowing back what she was going to say opting not too. "Okay." this was so strange.... so unnatural for her. Going from where everyone treated her well... like an eyesore. Refused to met her gaze unless it was in a jeering notion, the young human girl absently touched her hands together. She didn't want to upset him... he was honestly the only being ever other than her father that treated her nicer. Okay she was afraid, she was horribly desperately afraid that she would screw everything up. And she didn't know how to handle it, she wanted... no he was a peculiar. They didn't like humans, she was no exception.

A sigh came from her, "Sorry." that was her favorite word along with her favorite colour.
 
Kade resisted a sigh.

It would appear that there was no way he could reassure this young, meek women and honestly....why was he trying to? He would be leaving her with her own kind by the end of all of this - and hopefully, for her sake, it wouldn't be long at all - and she'd forget all about him. Why was he trying to....to what? Make her like him? Could he be anymore stupid? He was a freak, an animal, a danger to her and he shouldn't want her to like him. That would only harm her in the long run.

No. Keep her safe. Get her to humans alive.

That was all he should do. That was what was best for her.

"It's fine." It wasn't terse or abrupt, simply calm - calm he didn't feel - before he turned again and started to walk. There would be a lot of walking to do in the hours to come.

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He was tired by the time night started to come around and he knew by scent alone that the human was exhausted. Part of him was worried about that, wondering if he'd made her walk too long and too far, but another part was glad as it meant she would probably simply fall right to sleep. When they stopped, he made sure to hand her water, careful to keep an eye on how much she drank, not to stop her, but to make sure she took enough as he pulled some jerky and a piece of dried fruit, handing those to Kyrie as well.

"Eat all of it. Your body is starting to eat your muscles." In lieu of food or fat, it would do that.

The hybrid sat then, taking a long swallow of his own water before twisting the cap back on, not needing nearly as much as the human at this point, but knowing he couldn't afford to not give his body any so soon after his last bout of dehydration. He didn't eat, though, also knowing that would only trigger his body to tell him he was hungry and when his body was hungry, his instincts could focus on nothing else. No, better to feel this numb ache in his middle than the ravenous hunger.
 
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Oh damn him and his animal like body. She might have grown quiet as they walked to keep from doing something else that was entirely moronic, but she was acutely watching him with a wide wonder and a deeper inquisitiveness that bordered deep to a point of reaching out. As much as she tried, she couldn't effectively keep up with is long strides when he forgot that she was even there, making his steps longer and larger than before so she often trailed behind him. And then she started to watch the tail, or his wings with her big ever engulfing curiosity.

She almost once or twice – or maybe more than that- reached out when it came close enough to investigate but stopped quickly once she remembered that she was being quite intrusive.

So when they finally came to a rest, yes Kyrie was exhausted.

She sat down without a complaint, did well not to say anything about how she wanted to stop ages ago and simply curled her legs up and folded them neatly to the side of her. Though having the canteen pushed to her yet again taking a very minimal sip – having already been taught that water was to be conserved and it was best just to refresh her palette- and screwed the lid back on to set it aside.

Big brown eye lifted in apt wonderment when he was telling her to eat what he gave her, Kyrie grew shy to the entire thing. Granted she took it but she didn't start eating it. Especially when he seemed to be handing her doctor's orders. Oh sure, she was starving and probably could eat it without a second thought, but she was… she didn't overly want to eat. There was still much on her mind and honestly she had no time to grieve appropriately for what transpired, it made a knot in her stomach tye together with the hunger than clawed there.

A sigh escaped her as she dipped her head forward, looking over her fingers and her nails stroking them thoughtfully, "You would probably do better with eating this than I would, Kade." She spoke finally with that all so familiar genuineness that came oh so naturally to the woman.
 
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The hybrid looked over at her when the quiet words reached his ears and he snorted softly, shaking his head. "And you're honestly making me wonder if you're having delusions." he replied back, claws scraping lightly over the end portion of his tail, the tip twirling and twitching, but the rest of it coiled around him and still, tired just as the rest of him was. Silver eyes looked carefully over the human, judging her state by sight and smell alone and what he saw didn't alarm him, so he didn't move.

He did recognize curiosity when he saw it, though, and she'd had it all day. He hadn't caught her reaching for his tail or wings, but he had caught the intent staring. It hadn't bothered him. Not like he thought it would because in some way, Kyrie didn't do it in a scientific or disgusted, distrustful way. She was like a child, simply incredibly interested. And like a child, he knew that could get her into trouble if either a) that curiosity was denied or b) it was fed. He just had to decide which was the lesser of two evils in this situation.

Maybe if she knew a bit about him, she'd realize being curious was not a good idea. She seemed smart even if she was timid.

So Kade ran his fingers through the sand, watching the claw marks left behind as he spoke again. "If I eat a little, I won't want to stop and you're the only thing around. Believe me, it is better that I don't eat."
 
Kyrie found her nose wrinkling back to his response, absolutely unintentional but it occurred nonetheless. Just as much as she should, Kyrie knew he should as well.

Glancing to the things of edible variety, she puckered her brow. "For someone who seems very smart in the ways of health, you seem so sure that your a monster who can't tell the difference." the words came popping out of her mouth before the rest of her could stop it. Her gaze opened wider, sliding a very cautious look to him, but her point still stood. "Pardon my forwardness but, if you nearly as terrible as try to make it sound, I wouldn't be here right now." she shifted in her spot at first, before she took a deep breath and scuttled closer. Within reach but careful not to impose. "You are still trying to mend from your wound," Kyrie happily split the meal between, looking up under the cuff of hair to him as she very gently put half into his grasp.

"If you want me to, then you need to set an example." there was minor teasing in her voice even as she moved back away to huddle around herself from the chilling air.
 
Her words surprised him and he gave her a sharp look even as she gave him a wary one, a frown on his face, but he didn't lash out at her, more interested in her perception than upset by what she'd said. The rest of her speech made him look away, the frown deepening, only giving her a glance as she moved closer. What she said struck a chord, but Kade found it hard to accept...no, he found it hard to even contemplate giving it a chance to take any kind of root. He WAS as terrible as he made himself sound. The fact that he was doing this...it only meant that his human side was in control for once. It wouldn't last long. Something wound trigger him, the humanity would be shoved away and maybe this time he wouldn't get it back.

She was risking too much.

He was risking too much.

But when she pressed the food into his hand, he found himself taking it, looking over at her again, sheer puzzlement in his expression. She was so very strange. Like no one he'd met after the Blackout and perhaps not before it either. He looked down at the food and then back at her before he gave a sigh. He thought this a very stupid idea, but though he didn't know much - anything - about Kyrie, he had no doubt she was stubborn. If he wanted to have her eat, he had to as well.

Even if that made him more unstable.

He had no idea why he was doing this, but Kade took a bite of the jerky and he gave Kyrie pointed look. He was eating. He expected her to do the same.
 
Okay she didn't like being looked at in such a way because she said exactly what was on her mind. She was simply being truthful and wasn't the truth supposed to be more valued than lies? Or did that all vanish when the blackout occurred?

But either way, she watched him carefully, sporadically making sure not to stare for being rude only by the end of things even with his pointed look, Kyrie had a small private triumph grin to her face. Sure it was a small little thing to get a sort of satisfaction with, the young woman nibbled and picked gingerly over what she had.

He wasn't that bad. Sure, she was terrified of him firstly but she still stood her roots to extend a bit of kindness that came from her naturally and now he was doing much more than she ever expected. As gruff and snarly that he was, it was acutely evident even to her that he was far more than he wanted to believe. Far more than what humans seen and she was getting a very private look to it all. He was still human, somewhere in there. Even if he defied it. She knew what she saw on a deeper level than just looks.

Clapping off her hands once she finished, feeling well… better she supposed; Kyrie looked to her hands at the palms before closing them and then opening again. Eyes of two colours glanced through her hair, again that curiosity bubbling in her like a geyser, wanting to know things that probably no other human may ever get a chance to learn about again in the presence of a peculiar.

It was rather annoying too, she wanted to know. But she didn't want to overstep a boundary of an uneasy truce they were holding onto. Still….

"What-" she stopped humming and thinking on her stalled words, "I know I shouldn't ask and you easily don't want me too but I can't help it." Kyrie started, "It's not everyday there is a sort of truce between a human and a peculiar…. I can't help but wonder…" her brown eye darted to him earnest in all its glory, "Kade, can I ask a question or two?"
 
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Well...he'd known that was coming. He honestly hadn't thought it would be today, but he'd known it would come.

The hybrid looked at her with a sigh, but he didn't immediately deny her...but he didn't immediately tell her yes, either. She wanted to know more and he knew that could make her start to form attachment she couldn't afford to have to him. But on the other hand, she was right, they would probably never get another opportunity like this and who knew, maybe someday Kyrie would be someone important in the human world, maybe she'd have the ear of someone important and she'd be able to spread the word about what Changers actually were. Maybe this was a first step in a better direction.

Or a really grave mistake.

But he wanted to be more human, right? He wanted to feel human again even for a little while. Well, humans spoke to one another as far as he could remember. He'd spoken a lot when he was human, he knew that.

Making a decision with another quieter sigh, silver eyes flickering to her brown one, the curiosity almost...well, cute. "What do you want to know?"
 
At least she asked permission right without just coming out and suddenly bombarding him with questions he didn't want thrown his way. She figured she done right in that aspect.

Though hearing his sigh, she wouldn't have been surprised to hear him snap at her and sternly state that she was being nosy in a place she didn't belong. No it was the second sigh followed by him asking for her questions that had the woman surprised and straightening up.

Okay... Maybe she hadn't thought this far ahead. She was expecting no not a yes. A plunk of her fingers to her cheek, drumming them there with a concentrated thought, Kyrie hummed gently in tune. What did she want to know.

Well.....everything, but that would take forever. She had to pick and choose.

Thought lingered for quite awhile before one question came to the forefront of her mind first. "When and where." she spoke with a certain nod that she knew what she wanted to know. The girl reached up to unpin her brunette hair, letting it fall free and wavy to the length of her shoulder blades, Kyrie fussed with it gently trying to keep her hands busy lest she start getting too curious. "When did this all happen to you? Before the blackout, right after, later? And... Where are you from."
 
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Kade had found himself tensing, bracing himself really when the silence stretched out, starting to wonder if he should have given her the permission that he did. And then she spoke, three simple words and his head tilted, his own curiosity stirred, dampening the nervous energy rising up inside him. The tension eased a bit even when she continued. He could answer those questions. Easily. He felt relief that they were such simple questions and his wings loosed from their clinging actions to his back, sagging slightly again even as his shoulders did.

He could speak about this.

"After the Blackout, perhaps a month after. I just...one day I passed out in bed and the next...I woke miles away and couldn't remember how I got there. I started to change in the days that followed." His mind went back to that first week, to the process before he pushed the memories back again. Out of all the things he could remember, that memory was strong, that point between being human and becoming an animal was burned into his mind like a brand. He struggled to remember his mother's face, his father's voice, his military comrades, people he'd helped. They were all fading away, but that point in his history was clear.

But she wanted to know where he was from and Kade jerked his attention back to that question, giving a shrug. "No where. My parents traveled around a lot so I never had one home as a kid and when I got older, I traveled around a lot, too. I didn't settle in one place long enough to feel like I came from there."
 
What he couldn't see was her brow rising up in an peculiar little arched under her hair over the blue eye as he spoke. He just woke up away from where he was, if that didn't sound fishy, she didn't know what did. Then again the whole blackout thing was strange as well but that was old history.

Pulling her knees to her chest as the night was springing upon them and the dark bleaked out her vision; Kyrie was pondering all that he said. Even she could tell that between him passing out and waking up somewhere else that something happened to make the change over occur. But what? It wasn't like she could compare what he said to another peculiar. That was a stretch and far too deadly for even her to want to ever think or consider it.

Though she returned to glance at him when he said he lived everywhere and nowhere practically, Kyrie couldn't imagine such a thing.

Eyes peeked sideways. This wasn't the same thing.

"Okay." Kyrie smiled softly though she wasn't sure that was seen due to the darkness settling, "Thank you for answering." and that was that, she straightened up letting out a very soft sigh before she looked down to the ground. It was very clear that Kyrie had been straightforward in her asking for a question or two. She wouldn't ask for more, he had been more than generous enough and she valued such a thing.

Rather the small human pulled the scarf from her neck to spread it across her arms and laid down and curled up into a ball to try and conserve the heat she had from the brisk night. A shiver shuttered through her, tucking her arms into her chest and let her back face him so she wouldn't bother him. Her eyes peeked up at the sky wondering... just wondering over things that she knew were not right to be thinking of.
 
Her calm acceptance of his vague answers surprised him - she was doing that a lot - and Kade watched her in the dark with clear vision, head tilting with a puzzled frown. She was so very different from what he was used to, what he'd expected. She was patient where she should be demanding, silent when she should speak, kind when she should be harsh, accepting when she should be angry....she was so very strange.

Kade had not been kidding when he'd said she wasn't human.

She couldn't be. Hence the 'Angel' alias he'd given her. No one could be that...good. Right? Or was he just so bad that he couldn't see anything she did as anything less than amazing? And if that was the case...that was rather pathetic. No, he'd much rather believe that she was different, special. He felt she deserved to be. She was putting up with him and she was going out of her way to accommodate what he was. That was nothing short of special in his book.

The hybrid watched her for a few minutes and it was when she shuddered with the cold for about the fifth time that he shook his head and his body moved. Silent as a panther as it stalks in the night, his body sank down near her own with hardly a sound. He hesitated for a moment then, but another shiver decided him. He couldn't let her freeze or grow sick. That's all this was. That's all. So telling himself firmly, his long tail moved around her small form, curling around her and drawing her closer to his side where he sat all in one smooth motion. He could feel the chill of her body against the heat of his smooth scales and it made him wish he had a blanket for her, but he didn't.

The higher temperature of his own body would have to do for now.
 
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All she knew was one moment she was looking at the sky above, then the comfort of her own eyelids only to pop back open at the sudden of something scaly touching her. Confusion bristled at the forefront of her mind, narrowing her gaze to try and peer through the dark as if it might reveal the motive behind all this; Kyrie found a very suddenly active mind rambling at her about it all.

She had been horribly interested in the tail earlier and now she was studying the very thing not overly paying attention to the fact that Kade was proving he was still more human than he wanted to admit. If she had been a gutsy being, she might have pointed that out to him. But she didn't. Instead, she absorbed the heat with great enjoyment allowing the lull of exhaustion to take over the tired mind.


With the rise of the morning, Kyrie had been moving around early again - a habit that was hard to kill- as she was springing like a frog on her feet, jumping from here to there and there to here again. There was a firm concentration on her puckered brow, her eyes firm to the sand of the wasteland when she stilled so suddenly.

As if she was waiting. Patiently.

If she had been a cat, her tail would have been swaying side to side.

Then every muscle in her body tensed and the girl lunged forward in a quick strike like a hunter that was too focused on their task to take consideration of the world around them.

It squirmed for a time, gasping as Kyrie was saying something under her breath that could be seen as a shamanistic prayer thanking the little lizard that she had caught before she rocked back on her heels and sighed heavily. She hated catching anything, but... she wanted to thank Kade for his generosity. He wouldn't have realized that his little gestures made a big imprint on the human girl, even in their short time.

So this was something, something she could do.

Looking around firstly, Kyrie scooped up the lizard into her hands and returned carefully back to where the larger peculiar laid. Eyes peeked down to the thing in her palms, then up again as she bit her lip and felt well... silly.

....Still....

Setting it down, Kyrie scuttled back quickly to put distance between herself and him just out of a habit with everyone other than her father, she sat down to keep her back facing as not to be intrusive and looked out way into the borders of the distance.
 
He vaguely felt when she moved away and even more vaguely registered that she was moving around rapidly, stilling, moving again. Such were things his brain absorbed without actually having to wake him. The hybrid detected nothing threatening, his nose smelled no fear from Kyrie, ears heard nothing but her own movement and he let himself stay in a drifting state, the sun warming his body up, back to a temperature that would make moving not seem like such a huge, monumental chore. And people thought teenagers were bad. HA! They'd never been part lizard and felt their very blood grow sluggish within them from cold.

So Kade let his body do what it needed to get him going for the day.

Or he would have, if the smell of fresh meat hadn't stirred the interest of his nose. Silver eyes opened, slitted completely as his attention shifted to the dead lizard on the ground and Kade didn't think in the least. One moment the lizard was on the ground and the next it was being torn by his fangs. There was nothing human about the action as he kept a growl constant in his throat, a low, warning rumble as he consumed everything but the larger bones, his digestive system greatly changed, able to handle many things his human body would not have.

The protein was soon releasing some energy, a small burst of it, into his body and Kade cleaned his claws almost like a bird might their talons. His silver eyes flickered about then and the slit pinpricks that were his pupils settled on Kyrie and for a moment, Kade struggled to even remember who she was, his body rising, moving toward her and then it was like a sledgehammer knocked him sideways.

His human side.

It took charge again, pushing the animal back again, snarling and snapping and Kade stilled, his pupils rounding out again as he looked at Kyrie and then took a few steps back. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't...I wasn't....I'm sorry..." He held hands out a bit and then looked at some of the residual blood still there that he'd missed. It was at the moment that Kade seemed to slump, give up and he looked down and away, his wings spreading just a bit, but to half-wrap around him, tail coiled close to his body, the end around his own strange leg.

S**t.

That's what he'd been trying to avoid.
 
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Fiddling with pieces of her attire, checking and pondering on ways to fix the bits that needed too, Kyrie wasn't actually paying attention to Kade. With her back facing him and the garbled sound of him devouring the lizard were muffled behind a soft humming tune.

The girl could be painfully oblivious.

It wasn't until she heard a panic sort of slurring of hurried strained words that she turned around to blink at him in question. A turn of the single eye to her right, then left to settle on him, Kyrie looked rightfully puzzled.

Why was he apologizing? And why did he look like a pup who recently been scolded and put outside? It was terribly cute in a strange sort of way, as Kyrie twisted her frame around fully to watch him. Her large brown eye riddled with her confusion. Yes she seen blood but she wasn't startled by it. It only meant to her that he happily consumed the very small piece of gratitude she offered and that blossomed a smile to her own lips.

Loose brown hair curled around her face as Kyrie blinked again. "Sorry for what? I'm afraid I don't understand." again she was watching him like a regular being and not remotely with an ounce if disgust.
 
Her own reaction puzzled him greatly and only when she spoke did it dawn on him that somehow, in some crazy, miraculous way...she'd not caught his blunder. In that moment he knew he could tell her what he'd done, risk seeing that smile disappear and the wariness, fear, disgust he was so used to being bombarded with appear in her eyes to replace the confusion and calmness....or he could say nothing, perhaps the coward's choice, and perhaps things would be all right. Or they really wouldn't. It was a choice that was hard to make, but in the end...he chose the latter.

She'd be gone soon enough, out of his reach. Why should he have to go through the reactions he dreaded most before that point? Selfish, yes. But he wouldn't take it so far as to not warn her if it happened again. He wasn't that much of an ass.

Folding his wings back again and forcing a slight smile to his face, shaking his head, Kade answered calmly. "It's nothing. Sorry, I didn't mean to alarm you." He gave his fingers a glance and then looked back up at her through his dark hair, the smile a bit more genuine and bit more shy. "Um...thank you...for the..uh...the lizard."

What a thing to thank a girl for! If he'd known a few years ago that such a thing would come out of his mouth... Kade shook his head again and he straightened fully, feeling more awake then he had in some time - it was amazing what some meat could do - and then moved to the canteens and food. Tearing off a half-ration of jerky and a full portion of fruit, he handed both to Kyrie with a clear smirk over his face. "I already ate." She couldn't use that one against him this time.
 
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