He wasn't even sure that he'd find her here today. All too often in the last season or so he'd come by to an empty house, dark and cold, while Hotaru had been off...
Elsewhere.
Not that the courier was one to talk, and he knew it. Still, he hadn't stopped hoping that he'd run into her, and some days he did get lucky. With the weirdly warm weather melting things that hadn't been melted in a score of lifetimes, he was unsettled enough to want the comfort of an old friend to help him talk through his feelings, and when he saw the curl of smoke from the chimney he broke into a relieved grin. Boreal grumbled happily from behind him, catching his mood, and the pair quickly climbed the steps to Hotaru's porch.
Before he knocked on the door, Tal bent to take a towel from his Bag and wipe down his companion's muddy talons while she made loud sighs and huffs of impatience, crooning her presence at Hotaru 's door as effectively as any bell or knock would have done.
Elsewhere.
Not that the courier was one to talk, and he knew it. Still, he hadn't stopped hoping that he'd run into her, and some days he did get lucky. With the weirdly warm weather melting things that hadn't been melted in a score of lifetimes, he was unsettled enough to want the comfort of an old friend to help him talk through his feelings, and when he saw the curl of smoke from the chimney he broke into a relieved grin. Boreal grumbled happily from behind him, catching his mood, and the pair quickly climbed the steps to Hotaru's porch.
Before he knocked on the door, Tal bent to take a towel from his Bag and wipe down his companion's muddy talons while she made loud sighs and huffs of impatience, crooning her presence at Hotaru 's door as effectively as any bell or knock would have done.
