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Posted by Sarge on 9/28/2008, 4:41 am, in reply to "-sorrow-"
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His expression softened at her words, his smile becoming less strained and more genuine as he nodded.
"Sometimes a complete stranger is the best audience, ma'am." He replied, a soft laugh warming his voice. "Those you know might have too many opinions of their own upon your troubles."
Nevertheless, he would remember her advice, but it had not yet been years for him...hardly even months. Certainly, he had tried to forget...tried to throw himself back into his work in an attempt to ease his pain. But everywhere...every task...had stirred painful memories, and only served to renew his heartache.
So he had run...run away to this strange place, where the reminders of the past were few and far between, and yet so where the familiarities of life as he had known it. Gone were the easy meals, the warmth of the indoors, replaced instead by slow starvation and cold nights.
It served him right. He had run...and in so doing, despite his words and his desire to help another creature in pain, had proven but one thing true.
He was a coward.
It was a truth he could not even yet admit to himself, and it was certainly not one he would admit to the female wolf before him. So instead he rose to his paws, taking her gratitude as a cue to depart. Yet her final statement gave him pause, confusion swimming in the liquid depths of his chocolate eyes as his expression became quizzical.
"If I have been of even a small amount of aid to you, then I require nothing save that." The german shepherd replied carefully, even as his stomach rumbled a faint disagreement, causing the dog to continue by admitting truthfully. "And I fear, ma'am, that I do not understand what you intend to do."
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