"Dion?"
"Yes?" He takes his eyes away from the family of ants carrying food perhaps on their backs in a straight line into a tiny hole in the ground not far from us.
"I'm truly and deeply sorry for my behaviour towards you, I have been…"
"It's alright, you don't have to give me a long speech." His calm tone makes me do a double-take, was he not the one who had been so intent to not speak to me hours ago?
"What happened out there?"
"Nothing, I just had time to think about everything and I realized that I have to meet you in the middle."
"Forgive me but I don't understand what you mean by meet you in the middle." At that moment Arcotos shuffles closer to me and whines a bit that's when I realized I had stopped rubbing his fur so I murmur a quick sorry to him and resume.
