Kitsuna smiled in time with Ren, glad she had been able to pull the elusive smile from him, it was something she loved to see, him actually smiling. She hadn’t known Ren very long but he was already so precious to her, no one since her parents had stuck around her so long and they had not cared for her, not like this strange, grizzled wolf had. She laughed melodically as Ren confirmed it would take an unnatural phenomenon for him to unwind.

For a moment or two she watched him with serious eyes as he once again mentioned his imprisonment and his duty to the young pups that he had been responsible in protecting, although no one had asked him to. The last line of his sentence caught her off guard and she grinned very mischievously. Placing a gentle paw on his cheek she mussed his fur playfully as she gazed at him, eyes sparkling in the moonlight. Then leaning her neck forward she gently licked his cheek where she had ruffled his fur.

“I can do that. But can you really let someone else take charge for more than two seconds!” Then reaching out her paws she placed them on his shoulders and pulled him down onto his side, next to herself in the cool grass. “So … teaching you are going to be hard. It would make things easier if I knew you could play.” Kitsuna laughed, her paw once again pawing at his face as if to tease him into a response, the small, playful growl humming deep in her chest.