Seto's POV
She whimpered again when I stood up. I felt cruel for scaring her but if what I knew was right, she would be forgetting about that in a couple of minutes.
She was just so… small. And fragile. For a moment, the clouds broke and the full moon shone on her porcelain skin. She shifted towards the moonlight streaming in and even risked a quick glance. This just confirmed my suspicions even more.
Slowly, as not to scare her, I took my hand and placed it on her head. This was quite an easy feat because she came up to the hollow of my throat. If the situation had not been quite as fragile, I would have laughed. Her eyes shone hazel, which was her way of expressing confusion. Her facial expression was torn between really enjoying this and biting my hand off. But when I started to gently stroke her hair, more and more of her face relaxed into the former expression. Her eyes slid into black with golden dots, which was happiness, if I took it correctly.
"Your eyes change color with your emotions." Her eyes immediately changed back to hazel. I started to run my fingers through her hair to keep her distracted. Obviously, it worked because her eyes started to turn to its previous color again. "You're a wolf. You love the moon like one. You get scared like one. You move like one." Her locks were absolutely art in itself, tumbling black and shining in the intermittent moonlight. If I could feel clouds, they'd feel like her hair. Light, smooth, airy. Like the moonlight itself.
She started to lean into me, as if she was scared to close the distance but longing to do it anyway. I let her come closer to me, just a slight step in my direction. What I really wanted to do was to pull her closer, to hug her until she hugged me back. To inhale her until she became a part of me. To stroke her until she never flinched. Instead, as she was starting another step towards me, she collapsed.
"Yani? Are you ok?" I said, alarmed, kneeling down next to her.
"I… am… punished…" she said through clenched teeth and then whimpered as another wave of pain seemed to attack every single cell in her body. I moved to hold her against my body to carry her upstairs but at that instant, she bolted. I could almost see the theoretical tail tucked in between her head as she flashed up the stairs and into her room. I sat down, hard, and sighed with my face in my hands. To think I would have to go to an early meeting tomorrow. Man, life sucked.