She was a pitiful sight as she crawled closer, whining softly as the dirt and the grit grinded against her cuts, embedding themselves deeper. It was going to take a long time for him to pry all the offending pieces out of her hands. He didnt know what was going to happen when she reached him. With only a few feet between them, she hesitated and Saul reached out as if to ask for her hands once again. She was withing touching distance and he distincly heard the defeated sigh as she crawled forward once more. She crawled up into his lap, body curling in the space between his crossed legs. Her head pressed against his chest and he reacted immediately. Strong arms came up and round to cradle her body against his, arms laying across her back and round her left side, gently but easy. He didnt notice her crying for the moment until he felt the wetness on his fur and she began to breath harder.
He didnt know what to say, but it was difficult for him to remain silent as she got progressively worse. She curled her hands into fists catching a handful of his fur in the process and holding it close. She began to cry out in fear and pain, joint with the short wheezing breaths that clearly spoke of a panic attack. Strong, capable hands began to slowly stroke the dark females back, soothing strokes meant to calm her breathing and stop whatever it was that was trying its best to ruin the young female and break her. Along with the general stroking of her back, the young male softly cooed to her, a long stream of Shhh, shhh, its okay sweety and other such nonesense that he had no idea where it had come from. The male had no idea how to deal with the female, but it seemed to be helping being held by someone.
As an afterthought, or perhaps not a thought at all, the male rocked his body back and forth, doing everything he could to remain a soothing presence. He had no clue what had caused her panic attack like this. Her tears were soaking his fur and her little hands clutched at his chest. Hey there, come on. Whats wrong darlin'? He murmered, leaning back slightly to brush her wild hair away from her face and see if he could make sense of what was going on.
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