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“Much further?” You asked, noticing Hal no longer panted.
>”Four blocks. Maybe five?” Hal whispered. “We keep going that way, okay?”
>”You ready?” He asked, eager to move.
>You weren’t.
>You wanted to talk more.
>But you would have been blind to not notice how little Hal wanted to speak.
>A stark contrast from the junkyard.
>He would have continued talking your ear off about light refraction and dispersion had you let him.
>You got close to the red-haired kitsune and exhaled.
>Hal hid you both from view.
>His cloak may have worked on your normal vision, but that didn’t mask the aura in every living creature.
>You stayed close, using aura-sight to keep pace and keep track.
>Unlike your escapades these past weeks, Hal kept to the ground.
>He was speedy, but you ran alongside without difficulty.
>Concentrating on keeping you both obscured took focus.
>It was more tiring than the exercise, by far.
>His stamina, like yours, was leagues better than when you were human.
>Even with his newfound athleticism, you’d bet on beating him if you had to race.
>And a fight.
>Those zoroark biceps were skinny.
>Down a hill and beneath the acorn trees you jogged.
>With deft footwork, Hal avoided every fallen nut.
>He ducked beneath any leaves in the way.
>And his paws avoided the chalk hopscotch path marked on the ground.
>Not a thing was out of place as he passed by.
>You wish you could say the same.
>Worst case scenario, people would think an odd breeze brushed all that debris down the sidewalk.
>You entered a high-end residential neighborhood.
>The dens here were much nicer than yours.
>Uh, houses.
>Houses. You corrected your thoughts again.
>”Nice houses…” You murmured.
>Hal’s panic was instantly visible in your unsight.
>It seeped out like a dull, gray ink being smeared across paper.
>He looked back at you for a moment, worried you’d give his position away.
>You never drove here as a human before.