Despite the small talk and good nature of all parties there is an underlying tension to the entire situation that she cannot ignore. The pleading of Ragnarok, the barely veiled warning from Natu a combined amongst the growing storm was more than enough to put her on edge. However she managed to smile at the she-wolfs offer of an extended stay and nod her thanks, though her ultimate intentions are clear Church would never turn down an offer to explore a place more. As the thunder boomed overhead she knew it would have to wait until the storm passed, she believed they each had a long night ahead of them though she expected theirs to be much more interesting than Natu’s. “Safe travels on your way, Natu. It was a pleasure meeting you,” she called over the whipping winds as the white wolf took her leave, her final warning still ringing truthfully in her own ears. Though it had no doubt been meant for her Moon she found it resonated to something deep inside her own golden chest.

His words bring her back to their current predicament, the skies above ready to burst at any moment while lightening streaked the skies chased once more by the thunder. She raised her slender head to the heavens for just a moment, taking in the tumultuous skies as the first splatters of rain began to fall. She moved back beside him before finally entering the gaping mouth of the cave with his motivation. For a moment she paused, her eyes roving back and forth to take it all in, this place where he had come in to the world and his parents had built their life. It was musty from disuse but it didn’t bother her, though her nose twitched at the upheaval of so much dust from the pelt he shook.

For a moment she wandered about the interior, nosing here and there at the distant scents that managed to linger and cling to the place. As he began to speak, the words hurried and laced with a fear she hadn’t seen from him before, she raised her golden head, aquamarine eyes locking back on to him. She took a few steps forward, pausing though as he continued on, small ears perked forward to make sure she caught every syllable despite the storm now in full force outside. As his final words fell, ringing in amongst the rocks she finally closed the distance coming veritable nose to nose with him as much as her height would allow, eyes boring quite seriously in to his.

“There has been no hiding, I haven’t even asked anything yet. I’m not exactly sure where to start,” she said finally, attempting to ease the pain he seemed to be putting himself through. She wouldn’t have him beating himself up, despite her own very tangled past with a battle of things yet unseen she couldn’t image ever turning away from him no matter what his explanation was. She hadn’t figured everything out yet, how she was going to go about dealing with her emotions toward both her Sun and Moon, didn’t know what the net season would bring, but she did know with a fierce certainty that she needed him in her life no matter what the capacity. “I have a past too, one that I’m not entirely proud of and that I’ve spend most of my life running away from. We have all the time in the world to get to know one another,” she said gesturing to the sheets of rain which almost formed a curtain to the outside world, her words attempting a comfort she didn’t know if she could fully give at the moment. “Start…start from the beginning,” she said finally, it would be the easiest way to fully grasp exactly what was going on in the here and now and what had gone on in the past she thought, sea-green eyes flicking to the deep scars that still stood out in the low light of the den.