It was a long night, Drake had traveled for 24 hours without resting, he wanted to make as much as possible space between himself and CoM and he wanted to be as far away as he could.
A new start at a new place, a place where others won’t depend on him, where they would leave him be at the sidelines, a place where he could live with others as normal as possible but with no or at least minimum contact with others, no connections would give him less reason to get angry or depressed and so less ways for the beast to take over.
Yet something had been feeling bad for a while now.
He had made so much space and he had reached the outer boarders of the place he was heading to, yet he kept on smelling a scent.
At first he was so sure it had been nothing more than a trick of the mind, he had been living with all of them for so long, it would not surprise him if his mind did not wanted to let go of a scent, keeping up with his regret for leaving, but he was sure he had traveled long enough and far enough to get the scent to lessen, yet it remained.
Drake stopped walking, his wings folded around him as a cape or a robe “Chii, are you there?”
At first it was quite but then he heard movement as someone came out in the open.
“yeah”
Drake sighed and turned around to look at her “have you been following me all this time?”
“yes”
Again Drake sighed “why?”
“cause you left” the little girl replied.
“you were not supposed to follow me”
“you were not supposed to leave”
Drake sighed while his eyes shifted into a mixture between green and blue, He loved the talks with this little girl yet she was not supposed to be here, and in a way he would miss it once she gets picked up.
“do your parents know you followed me?”
“nooooo” she said cutely.
Drake sighed again “you know it’s dangerous to go out like that and that your parents worry”
“Im fine, I got you with me and if any bad guys come, Ill make them nice and sick hihi”
Drake shook his head and looked past the hill he was crossing “if you followed me this far we might as well continued together, I shall make contact when we are there”
“where we going?”
Drake walked to the 9 year old girl, folded his wings open and lifted her to see past the hill, giving her sight of the city “we are going there, the city of Genosha”
“whats it like?”
“your home but bigger I guess”
“why did we never moved there together?”
“cause its not your home, and its not mine”
Ÿet your going to live there?”
“yes”
“why?”
“cause its where I can keep you safe from me”
“Drake wont hurt me even if he loses control”
Drake said nothing, his face revealed nothing, but his green eyes said enough even though he knew it was she was wrong and it scared him…

After some more time they had entered the city, Drake had folded his wings around himself again, wearing a knitted cap to hide his ears, his left hand sticking out from between the wings holding on the Chii her hand, making sure she wont walk away for some reason.
He walked into what looked like the main building and walked to the first person he could find.
“I wish to speak to someone about registering myself and calling this girls parents so she can go home”
The person nodded and left to find someone