sorry this is so awful! D:
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He found the silence comforting, a blanket he could wrap around himself and hide from the trivial problems this new world presented him. Though his posture was rigid, Shandom was really quite comfortable; it felt natural for him to sit, perched upon a rock, surveying everything around him. Thanks to his blindness, the male often had to swivel his head in order to fully appreciate his surroundings; it was significantly less dignified than he would have liked. But in his surveying Shandom noticed a midnight wolf moving over the lands, and for a moment his heart stopped: Lea?!
To an odd combination of dismay and happiness, the male quickly registered that the female was not, in fact, Linquilea. Instead, it was the woman he met several weeks ago, the Anathema dwelling Caprica D'Angelo. She hadn't acknowledged him yet - Shandom wasn't sure if she even realized he was there - and so he didn't say anything. He merely looked at her, appreciating her unconventional beauty. It brought a small smile to his scarred face, and a deep chuckle fell from his lips when she almost ran into the rock.
Miss Caprica, he murmured, tail wagging in greeting. It has been too long, my friend. He leaped nimbly down from the rock, landing several feet from her. Shandom inclined his wintry head in a deep bow, his black lips still stretched in a smile. You are far from home, are you not?
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