Eclipse had finally got the gall to visit the place that was called Halifax, and she wasn’t disappointed. She found many things she could use and had put the silverware and even cooking utensils in her bag. Her new pots were in no way able to fit in the bag, so she had the biggest on her head. It was actually nice, especially out in the sun. She had done this before and felt no need not to do it. The young woman went from shop to shop finding different things, but not cleaning them out. She had burst out in front of Robert that one day about having nothing, well it wasn’t so now!! She was in the middle of looking through some books, thinking of the young man when a huge rat came chasing out after her. SHe let out a high pitched scream, throwing the pot she had in her hand but it missed bounced off a display and went straight through the window, making a loud crashing sound. Her heart beat against her breast as she ran out, frightened by both the rat and the sound the pan has caused after it broke the glass.

She ran and found something to hide behind, a bush, her eyes the only thing that peeked out as she watched to see if the huge fat thing would follow the poor defensless girl. She had never met a rat nor had she ever seen the after effects of what happened when glass broke. It scared the daylights out of the poor girl.

The man that came was entirely unexpected and she was entirely embarrassed about her actions now that she knew it had been witnessed, he was out in the open and the fat thing didn’t seem inclined to leave the safety of the store especially after she threw the pot at it. She was glad about that. She didn’t want it coming out for her after all.

“This big, fat ugly.... thing, it just attacked me when I picked up a book. Jumped out of nowhere with these fangs like nothing i’ve ever seen

She said standing up. He was enormous compared to her five foot nine, but she was used to that so looking up was no big deal to her, and she smiled sheepishly about her stupid actions. Seeing the pot where it had landed in the middle of the glass. Still as naive as anyone who had never handled glass she started toward it to retrieve her pot. She had to have it back, so she walked into the fine display of glass intending to get her pot back. She was determined. But the second she got anywhere near the glass she felt something cut deep into her skin and she yelped jumping back and hopping on one foot. She jumped back cringing in pain before she fell off balance. She looked at her foot as she saw blood welling up where an invisible wound was and the blood was coming out fast now.

He asked her the stupidest question, at least she thought it was stupid. Who would be scared of a cat? Then thinking about the large tiger and her fear at first, and then the cougar... ok she could be scared of one, but she knew he must be talking about the small kind, the kind that she could easily punt across the district. Her thoughts weren’t entirely on that, as she wanted her pot, and when she stepped on the glass she knew it was a bad thing. Her eyes had watered as she sat to examine it, but there was nothing but blood. She bit her lip to keep from crying out though. She would not cry out. She was stronger than that.

“Well.... no... I do now... geeze, what the heck? Why does it do that, why did it cut me like that?”

She asked examining her pad. It was pretty bad, at least that was how it looked. The man with the red hair wrapped her foot and the blood soaked that and he looked at him with a mix of apology and thankfulness.

“I was looking at some books. My friend he loves reading, but he doesn’t get out very much I thought I could grab him something he doesn’t have.”

She admitted. Then looked back where the glass was... and now the pot she could not have back sat, taunting her, laughing saying she couldn’t have it back. She took the pot she had on her head off, and bit her lip a little.

“Then this hairy animal just came out of nowhere it was fat, and it’s feet and tail were bare and it’s teeth were huge and it’s eyes beady and black. It scared me. I never saw a monster like it!”

She looked over at the man. She wasn’t about to ask him to go and kill it for her. After all she must have been in it’s territory.... she was just surprised when it attacked and the fact she never saw such a thing caused her to panic. It was rare to see the young woman panic.

She fiddled with the pot for a little bit before standing up, and testing the bandage. THere was no sharp pain in her foot, only a dull throbbing one, but that she could ignore.

“I didn’t even know glass COULD break.”

She didn’t stick around too many towns or cities to find out about the glass, it was just one of those boring things that stuck to the wall to her. She shrugged, and looking at him as he asked her if it was a rat she shrugged.

“I have never heard of a rat before... but it was mean.”

At his offer she looked in the building that held books and thought, she would like to give Robert something, he did, after all, help her find her house, and she could bug him about hunting again and this would give her an excuse to bug him about it.

“If it jumps out at me again? I don’t know about you but even something that small shouldn’t be that fast and that mean!”

She admitted. She wasn’t going to be laughed at, though she was cautious when it came to things she had a bad experience of. This would make that boy laugh at her even more. She thought as she flushed a little. Her actions had been pretty rash, though how did she expect the glass to break? It had been so sturdy already, just the touch of the pot as it bounced into it shattered the whole thing. Well there was no glass to break now, it was already in shards.

“Yes... if you could help me I’ll be grateful!”

She said, though she owed the man for the bit of cloth anyway, she’d have to do something nice for him as he was being quite nice to her and she didn’t even know why!

She shrugged. It wasn’t every day one handled glass was it? She had few glass things and did her best not to break them as one had precious spices in it, enough to make it almost seem like pure gold and she could not always find such thing. So all she could do was shrug really. She rolled her eyes when he asked if she ever saw glass.

“Of course I have. My house has windows. Just that I don’t try to break everything I get my paws on.”

She said indignatious but seeing as he was trying to help her she wouldn’t continue on. She was just lucky in the way of not being near any broken glass before. Now she knew and now she would keep away. He spoke of her scaring the rat to death and she hoped so, though she wasn’t sure she wanted to see a dead rat in the middle of the floor but remember... it was an expression not an actuality. It was her turn when he spoke about not knowing all the words. She blinked a few times not sure what to say. Anyone and everyone she met was literate. So much so it seemed almost an anomaly that he did not know how to read. She began making an argument against this, that he was teasing her or something but then shut her mouth.

“Well... if you find something with pictures on them, like the stars on it or something, that might be helpful. My friend he’s picky about what he wants to do, and says being outside is nonsense pretty much. I want to prove him wrong. He just has a really hard head.”

Eclipse said as they entered the store, though she took a few seconds to stop at the doorway to make sure the coast was clear before moving in anymore. There was no sign of what Strel had called a rat, which she had no reason to disbelieve him about.

The same thought was going through her mind, of why he would help her. She hadn’t even told him her name and just the thought made her open her mouth to say something before closing it, she was sure they would get to introductions soon but it just didn’t feel like the right time. As they went in the light was brighter now that the dusty window had been broken. He reassured her and she moved in, beginning to take books down with her leaning to the side. She wasn’t afraid, just... cautious, she told herself, but she was one who did not like recurring things that would hurt or scare her. She picked up the book she had first dropped, seeing that it really probably wasn’t worth reading, though something thought it was quite worth reading. He spoke up and she looked over at him seeing the book. Coming forth she took a look at it.

“That may be something. I’m trying to find something that he can observe the sky itself with, so lets see.”

The book had some descriptions of stars and galexies... whatever those were. She was more interested in the stars you could see at night, and to be nice she nodded. Perhaps he would take interest in it anyway.

“Where did you find it, maybe we could find more.”

She asked looking at the shelves he was at. She could see many bookes with the solar system, night skies, which she picked out, galexies, and names she couldn’t even pronounce and it showed in her face as she scrunched it up in thought and her mouth moved to try forming the words noiselessly.

“Do you think it’s irresponsible to sleep outside?”

She asked suddenly, remembering the day she had been shown to her new home. Robert had in a way said it was not a good idea, and she took it to mean irresponsible, especially when he gave her examples of why. Because her health could deteriorate. Or that she could get hurt in some way. Even looking at the stars seemed to scare the boy into submission. Like something bad was bound to happen.

She poked through the shelves, her mind on more than the books that she sifted through. She wondered how someone could be so disinterested in reading that they’d never learned how. It boggled the young woman’s mind but she kept silent about it. Everyone had their own likes, dislikes and whatever they wanted to learn or not was not up to her.

“I see... no just something someone said. I was scolded for sleeping outside. I just wasn’t sure if everyone had that thought.”

She said, she wasn’t going to take the scolding, nor had she. She was a grown wolf and for someone to tell her how unsafe things were or that she shouldn’t do something because of one reason or another made her fur raise up. She shrugged and after picking out another book felt they had spent enough time in the building. As much as there were books, she didn’t like its residents and even though Strel was a strong presence and quite capable of taking something on, she didn’t want to rely on his help too much.

“Thank you, it’s good to know there are good wolves still around. I think I’m done here now.”

She could feel her fur rising as she thought more of the scry ugly looking animal that attacked her. Wondering if she was being watched right now by one and if they were going to attack her again. She really didn’t want to give them a chance.

His words consoled her and she let out a sigh of relief that she wasn’t the only one who found it strange but said nothing more. She just watched him as he eyed what looked like a romance novel but she stifled even a smiled and didn’t see him as the romance book type. Then again she didn’t know what to categorize him as anyway. Though it was far too soon in their acquaintanceship to even think about adding any categories.

“I dunno I love sleeping outside and i was forced to when traveling rain or shine. Though I do prefer shelter from rain and such myself.”

Eclipse said and nodded right away when the man offered her to leave the shop. It was a relief to get out of the shop and she didn’t know she was tensing her muscles until after they left the place. She looked at the man when he asked if she needed anything and that was when she noticed him wearing clothes. Perhaps she was getting so used to wolves in them that they seemed to be a part of them. Then she looked down at her naked self.

“Where do you get your clothes?”

She asked with a finality. She didn’t want to keep wearing a waistcoat, though it was rather nice of Robert to let her have it, but she felt she wanted something that would be more feminine. She had delved into dresses once in a great while but always lost them. This time she would not.

Her eyes went wide when he told her he made them, or repaired them. She never really had any interest in clothes and didn’t know how they were made, and in fact and no intentions of learning, but to find out that there was someone CAPABLE of making them amazed her. She just stared at him with astonishment as he took her hand and brought her down the street until he found a store. She let him pull her along, happy that he was so willing to help her, her foot, still throbbing was forgotten even with the brisk walk to the next store. As they entered Eclipse could see an array of faded colors of all sorts. Most of the clothing was covered in thick layers of dust, as well as disrepair, others eaten but there were some few that were preserved and she went and started looking.

“I dunno, I like any color really, but not black, too dark. Oh! How about this one?” She asked as she pulled out a light colored yellow sundress. It wasn’t one of those really eye blinding bright yellows and this one was actually long enough to go past her knees. She brushed it off a little and held it up, it was in fairly good condition considering where it was and looked pretty to her.

She smiled at him as he said it was nice and then added she should try other colors too, she kept the yellow dress draped over her arm, she liked the color, and thought it would be something to wear, then went back to looking for the colors he spoke of. She pulled one out that looked promising, it was a lilac color and she was about to get excited, but scrunched her nose when she saw that it had been chewed on or something, something had nested in it once too. Putting it back she moved to the next rack. It was filled with other dresses and she found a blue one that seemed to have blue gems, it wasn’t something she thought she should wear right out but she examined it, seeing it had thin straps but they were holding and there was no damage at all to it and she turned to Strel.

“How about this one? I don’t think it’s an everyday thing though.” She asked holding it up, maybe if she had this she would not have felt so strange at the ball in Casa.The red man seemed to have an eye for things like this especially as he said he made them. She smiled and waited for an answer. She figured this would be enough, if he thought it wasn’t suited for her then she would put it back and they could be on her way, though she figured that they would part ways once they left this shop. She wasn’t one to linger too long and she still had to get home and make sure her foot was clean and she didn’t want to stay away from it in case she felt herself drifting again. For that was what she had been since she was a puppy. A drifter.