As Walker walked after the orange pelted cat, his head kept low and to the ground.482Please respect copyright.PENANAQZ2rGOySE1
He did not wish to look around at the moment.
Practically forgetting about Walker, Ryder turned around and almost jumped out of his skin at the sight of the dragon following him.482Please respect copyright.PENANAr0wkWA1JD7
Sighing ever so slightly and turning around to face Walker, the cat sat down before mewing, "damn, ye've been awfully quiet. I totally forgot I had a dragon on my tail."
Once noticing that the cat in front of him had stopped walking, Walker joined them in stopping and asked, "We've stopped?"482Please respect copyright.PENANAOI3vXzgvoq
"Observant one, are we?" muttered Ryder as he looked up to the bright eyed, yellow and white scaled dragon.
Walker and Ryder stood silent for a moment before Ryder suddenly decided to get up onto his paws and continue to walk forward.482Please respect copyright.PENANAqjs4RJIJeh
And without turning his head round, Ryder mewed, "follow. I'll take ye to the center of this little town. Not like there's anything of interest but still, ye are a curious, right?"482Please respect copyright.PENANAT1W9kHGPVO
Walker nodded his head in response even though Ryder would not see and continued to follow after the fire pelted, soot pawed cat.
The town in which Walker and Ryder walked in was a place on the verge of a forest.482Please respect copyright.PENANAryarayfTql
It was not rich nor was it poor, but the land remained mostly untouched compared to big cities where roads were built, skyscrapers were formed and pollution wreaked above.482Please respect copyright.PENANAj5cGPaTomD
This town had one large dirt path or road in which no cars roamed.482Please respect copyright.PENANADyg8xDexjI
All the houses consisted of either singular or two stories but nothing over and they were all coloured with what nature had given.
As Walker walked across the dirt path, the gentle yet firm ground soon turned into a pale stone path that lead up to a large fountain.482Please respect copyright.PENANAHdErofw5SR
This was the only place in which the ground had been altared.482Please respect copyright.PENANATeazOqP9yr
The dragon's pace grew slower as the pair walked closer to the fountain but Ryder's pace did not.482Please respect copyright.PENANA7eRDJIXrhX
So the cat reached the fountain's edge before Walker and leaped up onto the stones that formed the basin that held the water inside.482Please respect copyright.PENANAqCJfEnG0vh
Taking a sip, the cat leaned down toward the water and took a drink before raising his head back up to look at the approaching dragon.482Please respect copyright.PENANAkaBPIfmyYJ
And as Ryder was about to mew to Walker, the cat's ocean blue gaze froze at the sound of someone nearby.
Both dragon and feline turned their gaze to the young man who sat on the stones around the fountain, like Ryder.482Please respect copyright.PENANA6kqPcZxI1j
The man held a small child in his arms while he looked up into the sky, his unnaturally purple eyes shining along with his reasonably long black hair.
Breaking the silence, Ryder tsked, "the unlucky of this town."482Please respect copyright.PENANANkiY4dmv8t
Confused, Walker turned his head back to stare at Ryder before asking, "unlucky?"482Please respect copyright.PENANAGnek7Pvvhb
With a sigh, Ryder leaped down from the stones he stood atop of and started to walk over to the young man and child.482Please respect copyright.PENANANNvJsqkftd
"The animals of the town. Forgotten even by other humans. This 'ere looks like a poor soul who has no home," mewed Ryder.
Still confused to what Ryder meant, Walker decided to scan the young man once again and noticed how different his clothing was compared to the other humans he had met.482Please respect copyright.PENANAaJXYY4a9wH
Torn, faded and covered in dirt; this is what the purple eyed man wore.482Please respect copyright.PENANAsiNJD2QCmQ
But, the small child that looked about three years of age appeared to be in better shape than the man.482Please respect copyright.PENANAMOTCD6CfBQ
The child had pale skin, pinky-red eyes and white hair, but they looked happy, healthy and clean.
As Ryder drew closer to the two humans, the small white haired child reached their arms out, trying to touch Ryder.482Please respect copyright.PENANA2AW7cmySCC
But, Ryder kept his distance as he sat in front of the two humans.
The purple eyed man noticed the fidgeting of the small child and looked down from the sky to see Ryder looking up at him.482Please respect copyright.PENANAGfpf2HdwAu
"Oh, it's a little kitty-cat, isn't it Nageki? Sorry there kitty, I don't have anything to spare for you," smiled the purple eyed man as he gently held the child he called Nageki close.
Walker decided to also walk over to the two humans like Ryder did and once Walker reached near Ryder's side he sat down too.482Please respect copyright.PENANAVUB350GIcj
Picking up the different features of the two humans, Walker concluded that the two were not related.482Please respect copyright.PENANADrrjmaCNSE
And even though he did not know the species well, he could also determine age in no time.482Please respect copyright.PENANAauEeIYErtr
With Nageki being two years, ten months old and the purple eyed man being twenty-one years old, three months.
As Walker scanned the humans, the child called Nageki started to reach his arms out toward Walker.482Please respect copyright.PENANAULr0huXfCn
Only young human children and animals could see dragons; it was said the same with spirits but the dragons had never seen a "spirit" so could not conclude that as fact.
The purple eyed man confusingly looked at Nageki and to where Nageki was looking but from what he could see, Nageki was trying to grab nothing.482Please respect copyright.PENANATyXVgGe2rt
Laughing then started to echo from Ryder as he watched the confusion from the human.482Please respect copyright.PENANAHfUDPWNda1
"Poor bastard doesn't understand a thing. Ah, this is crack up, right dragon?" laughed Ryder as he looked up to Walker.
And as Ryder spoke at Walker, the purple eyed human also noticed how the cat before him was also mewing at "nothing".482Please respect copyright.PENANANlCJ4VO1LY
"Hello?" whispered the young man as he too looked in Walker's direction even though he did not see him.482Please respect copyright.PENANAXM5iXy0Ykx
"Hello," replied Walker.482Please respect copyright.PENANAY1hNoD5B9i
"Perhaps have the spirits come to meet with me?" asked the young man in a partly joking voice.482Please respect copyright.PENANAbXAL6J7Itk
"No, I'm a dragon," replied Walker even though answering was pointless.482Please respect copyright.PENANAsTWt5SPJEq
"I bet people think I look crazy," sighed the young man, but did not stop speaking with Walker, "Well, I'm Rin. And this here is Nageki, I met Nageki out on the street some time last year and decided to take care of him. He was abandoned because he was different..."
"That's very kind of you Rin... To help him out that is," smiled Walker.482Please respect copyright.PENANAenolbQ3ms1
"Geez... Talking to myself now am I?" mumbled Rin as he looked down to Nageki who was smiling at Walker.
Walker frowned and looked down at Ryder before asking the small cat to shake his head.482Please respect copyright.PENANAdCc3WT0ieg
The cat asked why but did as Walker asked.482Please respect copyright.PENANAx1FedyEm8Q
And, as Walker had hoped, Rin noticed Ryder shake his head.482Please respect copyright.PENANArUd7DjWkk4
"Are you trying to say I am speaking to someone?" asked Rin.482Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0ZkMkbht0
Walker than asked Ryder to nod his head so Ryder nodded his head.482Please respect copyright.PENANA2TiHYautLj
Rin smiled before returning his gaze to Walker.482Please respect copyright.PENANAG7ma6yCWrD
"I'm listening to a cat... Oh well, pleasure to meet you, whoever you are," said Rin happily as he extended one of his hands forward as if to shake hands with what he could not see.
Happy, Walker went to take Rin's hand but Ryder hissed and demanded that he did not touch the human.482Please respect copyright.PENANAMWco3uzNCY
Instead, Ryder leaped up to Rin's hand and brushed his head against it as if to say that Walker accepted his greeting.
With a smile across faces, Rin and Walker happily stayed seated staring at each other for a few moments even if one could not see the other.
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