"This is your... oh my gosh I am so sorry! I didn't realize you! Erm, I mean! You just seemed so... [i]professional[/i] that I just assumed you were! Y'know! A, uh, a veteran or... yeah. This is your first shrine? Really for real? Oh gosh, am I your first customer? Oh no, and I went and said all those things! I'm so, so, [i]so[/i] sorry!"

GranGran would be so mad at her right now. For that matter, so would everyone else she's ever known from the village. Or... everyone she doesn't know from other villages, probably. Hyra doesn't exactly look happy about it either. Really it's only Kat who doesn't seem interested in registering a negative opinion on this moment, and that may have more to do with the fact that Snuggle Time has her relaxed enough that she feels content curling up for a nap more than it's got anything to do with her actually trusting Yue's decision making skills. 

But at this point? It doesn't matter. It's too late, she's already felt that spark of connection. This isn't just a pretty girl with a cute [s]butt[/s] pair of tails, this is a [i]kindred spirit[/i]. Yue smiles, and even through the sudden splash of tears she's dazzling in her eagerness. 

"I've got lotsa wishes, y'know. Just about a million of them, really. It's just that this one is more important than the rest of them and I, well, y'know, y'know? I can't say I know a whole bunch about kitsune, especially not about how to help you get... oh, though! Have you thought about doing meet and greets, like? When you're trying to get your feet under you it's really tricky when nobody knows what you can do. I'm a sun farmer, see, that's my real job, and it took me for [i]ev[/i] er to find anybody who would make a trade with me because it was like, hello? What do we need the sun for, anyway? It's already up in the sky making us all warm and stuff, and you want to...? So I had to really... nnnn! Y'know? I did a whole buncha stuff like pet care and flower arrangement and house repair, stuff like that. And then after they figured out what farmed sunlight was good for suddenly it was like... bam! And... uh, stuff. So I..."

Yue trails off indistinctly and starts to blush some more. Hyra gives her A Look and then heaves a great sigh and shakes her head to say, "Well, you'd better know what you're doing..." and then she flops over on the ground. This would take a while. But she was patient. She knew how to hunt. Yue, meanwhile, squirms and wiggles her... not tails, trying to find a place she can negotiate from with any modicum of dignity. 

"I'm... I'm sorry, I'm being so stupid. I didn't mean to imply you were... I just... gosh, please don't, please don't go. Don't give up on me. If I could help you, um. W-well I just... don't really have... y'know, friends, so I'm not... not. Um. Maybe I could have your name? As a start? I just... I know, I know, I know, I'm being so pushy and terrible and judgy and you've got your tails and your shrine to look after and I just can't shut up can I but I just, I'm trying to show I'm, I mean, I know it doesn't seem like it but you... you can trust me. Ok?"

If there's a trick here, it's buried so deep that even Yue's heart can't find it. How'd she get this flipped around to be so exactly backwards? But if she's playing or she's being played it almost doesn't matter, because anything that she can do for Hyra, she needs to do it. And even more than that... those words are still echoing inside of her. How's this pretty fox girl living in an enchanted glade filled with all the world's bounties and comforts supposed to make it in this cruel, unforgiving land if nobody will give her the chance to be good?