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It's strange having two other men around. But at the same time it's also oddly satisfying. Having spent so much time on the road with Violet it's a welcomed distraction. Kale and Orion are a couple of jokers though. Always trying to make someone laugh. It's a nice change to the seriousness of everything as of late. Danny seems to have adopted them, or maybe they adopted her. I'm not totally sure what happened since she's been gone. But she is different. Her old hardness is less and at times seems ever more intact. Not with us, just in general. I can't quite put my finger on it.
We're sitting in the front of the carriage, with Violet and Daniel sleeping in the back and I put my arm around her. She leans into me with a sigh as we watch Kale and Orion running up ahead in their wolf forms.
“Tomorrow's my first moon since coming out of the wilds,” Danny sighs. Her nervousness is coming off of her in waves, and I feel myself getting anxious as well. “I've been dreading this.”
“Why? We always had fun.” I nudge her playfully.
“I got lost out there without you. Spent too much time with my wolf. At least that's what they told me. I felt a freedom and have been so stifled since.” She snuggles against me, laying her head in my lap. I stroke her hair some.
“I think that you should have never left us. There was so much you didn't understand about things. But in the same breath I think leaving was best. You needed to have this time to come into your own. You're not used to people caring for you, which is okay. That's what you need to realize. That it's okay to be scared, or anxious, to feel happy even though there's been pain in your life. It's okay for things to get better for you.”
“My head knows that, but tell my heart.”
I put my hand on her chest. “It will only listen to you.”