Raschen's chest rose and fell slowly as she awoke to his embrace, his heavy paw wandering from her back to her hip as she writhed from her initial shock, his tail flicking agitatedly at the movement. He purred slowly when she returned to her stillness, a certain peace in his embracing slumber. He twitched some at the feel of individual claws rising and being set down again and then a shiver as the chewed claw was prodded, breathing in slowly as he woke, blushing faintly as the heavy inhal washed her rusted scent over his senses, bringing him to open an eye, blushing some at her staring up at him. There was a nervous chuckle at her greeting.<br/><br/>"M-Morning.." he returned<br/><br/>He rose his paw from her hip where it had laid.<br/><br/>"I-I apologize for the sudden closeness...You were drowning in night terrors......it.." he began to tentively chew his claw once more, a gesture of thought in nervous situations, absently showing her why that claw was shorter. "It pained me...to see you in such distress...I know...when embraced by an invited touch one may calm from the terrors that plague their minds...and deprive them of slumber..." He blushed some. "You..responded rather eagerly to my embrace....I assume whatever plagued your dreams had to be something that digs down into your very person...some personal demon that enjoys having you as his prey...I..I felt it my duty...some how to guard you from it..." He spoke in flustered bits and pieces of explanation unable to meet her eye because to explain what he had done truthfully meant he had been forced to admit a certain level of affection for the hume he was still awkwardly embracing.