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He was not expecting much to be honest but her choice had him clamping his mouth shut before his first thought slipped out as words. Nodding and stepping to the side, indicating with his head for her to follow. His home was nothing special, it had just been him for a long time.

Not sure where to take her he trailed the stream for a while before heading away from it, over a marshy area that had never bothered him really thanks to his kirin heritage but that was deep and squelchy enough to make it troublesome for her. Heading for the more solid ground so she could walk more easily. Not sure if she had noticed that he didn't sink into the water much.

Deciding to keep her away from his home home as the words he was still keeping trapped inside might sneak out and there was really not many ways that they could be taken, it could be a threat, it could be flirting it could be a warning but it wasn't somthing most would think of as friendly.

He quirked an eyebrow, and lifted a hoof, his feet being different helped, they spread more than hers, not sinking so deeply when he did sink into the mud. As it was he usually didn't have to go this slowly so he could flit across the deeper parts with more though limited ease. "I just do." Walking over to her, having left some hoof prints where the ground was better for walking. "There are many hidden paths." Moving behind her and giving a steady push to help her out the mud, using his chest as he had scales and protuberances on other parts that might be better suited.

Moving forward behind her till she was on the steady ground then moving past to lead the way. Though even like this he didn't have much mud on him unlike her legs. Leading her through some trees, following the path that he seemed to know well. Pausing to look at her, seeming to be debating some things in his mind, finding the silence uncomfortable himself as it pressed on. "As questions, you seem a curious one."

Resuming walking, keeping to the slightly soggy but solid ground, there logs and branches making a kind of path trodden into the ground to help add to the stability, tough with the mud and grass and weeds on top that wasn't visible. Leading the long way around his home, not wanting to show that for some reason, though soon they came to an area that he classed as his eater garden, less trees, more water, the visible water was a lovely blue in the day, glow bugs and water lillys and other plants were all over the place. Even a few fruit trees were visible off to the side on what looked to be more path.

He stood still again, it was more obvious here what was path and what was not, letting her look around and gasp and do whatever it was guests and females did in such times, he didn't really know but he too found he appreciated the beauty of this area, its why he made his home here, it was his. "It is the water garden." Not adding that if you knew what you were looking for you could see his home from here, but to most who had no idea it looked like a very big fallen tree with another couple of trees groing over or through it, though twilight and night time were not good times to view his home.

He watched her in the lovely surroundings he had decided to claim as his. "I don't, I chose to be here because on this place... I find I need something lovely to look at..." His eyes more on her when he said this though they wandered after that. "There is a little ledge by those grasses to your left that will let you rinse your legs again if you want."

Moving away from her again, not far, but far enough, not sure what to do with himself, looking over the water, enjoying the waterlillies and the fireflies. Those and the moon really the only light other than the stars. Sighing to himself thinking he should not have brought her here.

He nods and shrugs, somethign time consuming probably wouldn't be too bad of a thing, it wasn't like he had anyone that would notice if he was around less. "Maybe I should take up tending to it..." Finding a spot that had clearly often been used and settling on it, looking out over the water, his tail curled around him a little as his eyes lower to the heart on the tip. So unlike a normal kalona tail, he wasn't sure if the heart was deceptive in that it made him appear safer than a normal kalona, or if it was a tribute to his lacking.

Picking up a stick in his teeth he drew a normal arrow shaped kalona tail, sighing and going back to looking out over the lillypads, teh fireflies leaving him alone for the most part. "I would have thought a young lady would wish for privacy, you seem oddly bold around a strange male. What if I decided to keep you because of your boldness?" Pressing his teeth together, he should have kept quiet, those words escaped and now she would think him mad or some other such. Maybe even run for her life, though if she went off the path it could well be her demise, after all only the part around his home was obvioulsly path, the rest was a gamble.

He nodded at her question, his gaze going back to the drawing. "Yes, my fathers tail was like that." Thinking over her question he sighed. "Boldness can be provocative, many want something that they cant or shouldn't have. You are bold, trusting, maybe a little naive... You are learning to defend yourself but there is always something or someone bigger and more skilled. Its better to avoid getting into the situation where you need to fight than to fight yourself out of it..."

Huffing, shaking his head, he was sounding like a father or big brother, this was definitely far too weird for him, he was usually on the side of taking advantage of such situation not cautioning against them.

His tail flicking into view again, looking at it, watching as he flattens te heart on the ground where he could see it. Grabbing a mouth full of grass and dropping it on his tail to hide the tip, really starting to wonder what was wrong with him.

He couldn't help it, he started to chuckle, shaking a little his head lowering, resting it on the ground, not able to help it, the idea that being eaten was all she had to worry about was the icing on te cake, she really was naive. "I think you should maybe bring it up with your parents if you don't know." Relaxing a little, thinking she was clearly to young for such a conversation with anyone but her parents.

He lifted his head as he stopped chuckling, looking at her, his smile and laughter having faded. He wasn't about to explain his issues to her, he had so far failed to get her to take it seriously that he was actually not as nice as he seemed, short of attacking her. Maybe he was lonely and this was his way of telling himself that. He sighed again, looking up at the sky.

He sighs again. "Its ok you know." He looked back to her feeling bad for embarrasing her to silence. "I am sorry." Yeah he had lost it, he was actually sounding contrite, and he hadn't actually done anything wrong. Why was he even bothering? He wasn't her protector, and he had been acting odd since he saw her as a muddly little bug by his stream. Closing his eyes and taking a breath before looking at her again. His blank eyes on her again. "You are a lovely young mare, and in teh list of bad things that could happen, I don't have death at the top. There are some thigns you can live through that are worse." Not that he knew that first hand but he could think of some pretty nasty non leathal things that he would prefer to die than live through.

And he still didn't know why he was telling her things like this, flicking the grass off his tail his waved it in front of her a little. "You see this as lovely, others would see a threat, some might try to kill me... I see a muddy bug, another might see a meal, someone else might have other ideas... You just need to be careful, and I'm done talking, its not my place to say these thigns I just can't seem to keep out of your business. So again I am sorry." Shutting up he went back to looking over the lake and up at the sky.