She could feel his tenseness, and how uncomfortable he was being touched yet he tolerated it anyway. Why? She was used to touch, used to the feeling of someone who liked touch, so it was clear that Eden wasn’t exactly comfortable with such contact. In healing it was different, it was minimal and wasn’t something one could voluntarily avoid. This time he could have yet he pressed his fur into her own even though he didn’t seem to enjoy it as she did. Even though he was tense it was still comforting to some degree to have him next to her. She wasn’t sure what it was that she liked so much, the fact that he was making himself uncomfortable for her comfort? That gave the air of he cared for her enough that he would make himself not content for her own comfort.

Perhaps it was her own misguided thoughts that she believed that. Not that he was trying to put on an act of normalcy but it worked regardless. She moved alongside him enjoying the contact between them until they had reached their destination. He snorts at her offer and she was again finding herself smiling and rather interested in his reaction to her offer that she owed him for the help once more. She hardly seen him as beaten by the storm though, but as he spoke she sat there smiling pleasantly at him.

The smile only grew at his words of her not needing a reason to visit the sea if she wanted. She wasn’t sure if she was thinking too far into it, and rather not think she was special to any other wolf that Eden allowed in. He proved her thoughts correct when he continued on and she felt a bit crestfallen that she had been right but fine with it too. She had expected as much and she wasn’t exactly sure why she was a bit disappointed. Shaking it off he continued on and his words once again caught her a little by surprise. Why would he think he is in debt to her?

”I don’t know about you being in debt to me, or greatful you are the one who found me out there struggling.” But she supposed she did owe him an explanation for why she was wandering around in the middle of the storm. ‘Being curious’ wasn’t really an explanation she could give. ”I was looking for my daughter… Well one of my adoptive daughters. She went out this way today and didn’t come home. When I saw the storm I thought I should look for her, but I didn’t find her. I’m sure she’s fine I think I just worry myself too much.” Zeltzin explained though really she had more of a reason. Losing Midna, even though she knew she was with her father was hard. All her other children still were close and resided in Taviora with her, none had so much as left the land since she had taken them in as her own. Then her own blood was gone.