It’s just me the other boy says, drawing a snort from Reave’s nostrils. Fortunately for ‘just me’, after Reave’s meeting with Cheri where he had been entirely unable to wrack her name from his memory, he had decided to tackle the endeavor of improving his sight and name recognition tremendously. It had been easy enough to thieve the visuals from his mom’s eyes and demand she tell him the name that fit. And she had, much more graciously than he had demanded (despite the censure in her tone, though Reave had become rather adept at ignoring that).
“Reynard right?” he replies to the other boy’s assertion, his tone far more confident than his lash of fear a moment earlier might have led one to believe. But if there is anything in this world that Reave does not lack, it is self-confidence. “It’s Reave.” Reynard hadn’t asked of course. Perhaps he recognized him, though a quick glance tells him that all his cousin sees is a dark and muddied outline with the barest hint of gleaming eyes and faint, disembodied white patches (curious how well red seems to blend with the darkness, though he quickly drags himself back from that tangential observation).
He frowns at Reynard’s question then, not quite certain how to answer. At this particular moment, he is quite obviously speaking to him. He suspects that is not at all what he had meant by the question though. So he answers with the next best thing. “I was just… going to check some things out.”
It’s an evasion, he knows. But he needs to see what is out there - what lies beyond the edges of their trees. The sun had stolen away behind the moon, awakening unnatural creatures from beneath the earth. Certainly there must be more.
And Reave, with his endless curiosity and youthful naivete, has determined he must find that more. He’s not certain he can truly help, but a side effect of his upbringing seems to be the strong urge to try. After all, considering his parents, the instinct to help may as well be genetic.
Turning the question back onto Reynard without truly answering it himself, he abruptly asks, “And what are you doing?”
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