<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Old Man and the Fox</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/f9p8l32.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Albion<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>September 28th, 2018, Afternoon<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Outdoor Shooting Range<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Nerissa<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong><br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Standard SOPHE uniform<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"... I admit, when I first saw you, I didn't really know what to think. You were beyond anyone I've ever had to train... Seeing a trunk full of guns wasn't really what I expected to see from a demon either, least of all from one that looks like you." Albion mused quietly, closing his eyes and shaking his head. "But... I can appreciate you wanting to try and live a peaceful life as much as you can here. I know things here will never be the same now that demons walk the Earth, but... We can make the most of it with those who are willing to coexist." He continued. She didn't want him to be so jaded, but it was just impossible for him not to be... Everything that's happened to him just wouldn't let him enjoy a normal life again.<br/><br/>"Kind... I suppose I stopped feeling kind a while back. It never really got me anything but trouble and pain." He continued, despite the fact she had pointed out he was being kind already by petting her... He could find no real fault with that line of thinking. "You talk to me like I don't know how to pet ears... I've taken care of dogs, you know... Though I suppose this is the first time I've pet a fox. Especially one this big." He remarked in a way that told Neri if he could grin, he probably would be doing it right now. Though trying to pet her while he was beneath her made it seem less like he was petting her and more like he was encouraging her for something else...<br/><br/>"I'm... Not quite sure that was the intent... But then maybe it was. Mom said she wanted to name me Albus, and I guess dad offered the Albion name. My hair and skin being like this was purely coincidental." Well, maybe. Neither of it mattered much when she just leaned in to whisper and speak into his ear that if they became more than friends, she would shorten his name... "Then I suppose you should get used to Albion..." Was all he could say. He had no intention of forging a relationship... Not now, maybe not ever again.<br/><br/>This fox did not know the meaning of personal space, it seemed. More to the point, it seemed in her happiness and glee, she overlooked the part of his sentence when he was uncomfortable or called it not proper.  Is... This going to he a recurring thing?" He almost didn't want to know the answer. Something told him the answer would be something approaching yes... Or worse, she didn't answer and left him in the dark until it would happen again.<br/><br/>Shaking his head, he sat up and pushed Nerissa back gently until she was straddling his lap while he was upright. "You really should contain those protective impulses... One day you're going to run into someone who will take advantage of that." He frowned, not wanting to say anything about her plans for him. When it came to her though... Well, maybe the right one existed for her somewhere out there. However, the truth about the 'pact' Nerissa had formed with him came out, which... Made him raise a brow. "So... You cut your hand and worked a little magic to make me think our lives were bound and try to deter me from that? ... Heh, now there's a Calder lie that fooled me. But I'm glad then, that my life isn't bound to yours." He sighed with just a little bit of relief, tilting his head up as his hand brushed the back of her head.<br/><br/><em>'There's no telling how much longer I'll be here. You've still got a life ahead of you.'</em>He kept his thoughts inside, not wanting to disrupt the resting vixen after the ordeal... Though- "How long do you plan to be like this? You should get up and go when you have a chance, you don't have any other reason to be out here right now... And I cant stay sitting lIke this forever."