12-16-2008, 12:45 AM
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The strange man whisper the answer to his son and for a moment Jasper felt relief. If he had done something, Ahren would have told him, because he wasn't the type to lie about something like that, at least in Jasper's mind. The sickening sound of wood cracking ahead of them caused Jasper to step back and as soon as the wall came down he jumped a little, stumbled back a little farther, but managed to regain his footing before he fell. He wondered if the shack would eventually be rid of the fire, if it would die down before it managed to catch anything else, because he didn't want to have to leave this place like he had the last. In the back of his mind a little voice whispered to him, told him that maybe his father had been the reason for the first fire, but for the time Jasper ignored it. His father's next words instilled a deeper feeling inside him, something that Jasper couldn't explain and didn't know where it had come from. They made his stomach turn and flip and for a moment he held his breath for fear of being sick. Jasper's fur practically stood on end as he turned to face the man near him and he was silent a moment, gulping back a knot in his throat before speaking. "I love you dad." He wasn't sure why he said it or what would come from it. It wasn't something that Jasper would really ever openly say, but the feeling inside his stomach make him feel like it needed to be said. |