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A sigh exited out the mouth of a young man as he entered the relatively empty park. It had been a long day for him, long day meaning he had to interact with girls which terrified him, and was glad that he didn't just yell and run away. It took a lot of concentration just to not run away and on top of his fear it made it hard for him to talk to women on top of that. He continued to walk further into the park, heading into the more wooded area of it, glad for the peace and quiet that he was getting finally so that he could clear his head. "Hah... so nice and quiet.. seems like they're also taking a nap.." He muttered with a sigh, referring to his legion of 20 shadowy wolves that he was connected with mentally like some kind of sentient hive mind with him as the leader. He continued to wander a about in the more wooded area of the park till he found a nice clearing and walked into it and looked around a bit curiously.

Artie eventually left the clearing and the wooded area of the park and headed to the fountain. He arrived on the opposite side fountain and sat down on a bench, "Phew.." He breathed out as he closed his eyes for a moment. "Yeah.. this is the best, no distractions, peace and quiet." He said to himself silently with a light content smile as he opened his eyes. He stretched a bit as he looked to the sky before looking around a bit. It was then he saw Korosu on the other side of the fountain and he immediately stiffened and became silent, of course he would have this luck to end up near women no matter where he seems to go. He tilted his head though as he watched her as she seemed to be doing something and the curiosity was getting to him.

After the initial surprise and fear Artie had when he saw the girl, his thoughts went in the direction of, 'Isn't it too warm to be wearing such an outfit?' as he watched. But, curiosity was getting to him and as if reacting to his curiosity, a shadowy red eyed wolf hopped out of his shadow. "Tau.." He said quietly as he looked through his bag and pulled out a notebook and a pen and gave it to Tau the wolf. The wolf nodded and trotted off around to the other side of the fountain and walked in front of Korosu and sat down looking at her, the notebook and pen in his mouth. Once seated, he set the notebook and pen down onto the ground and skilfully opened the notebook with his paw and picked up the pen with his other paw and skilfully wrote into the notebook with neat handwriting. When Tau had finished, he put the pen down and picked the notebook up with his paws as he sat there and turned it so she could read it, 'Isn't it hot wearing that?' the note said and the wolf silently watched her, waiting for an answer.

Tau tilted his head a bit as he watched her read it as her confused look simply became a glare. She clearly stated that she was perfectly fine before asking where he had come from. He set down the notebook and turned to the next page before taking the pen and started to write. This time it was a fair bit longer and even Artie became curious on what he was writing. When he was finished, Tau once again lifted the notebook to let her read it with a deadpan look on his face. 'I came from Master's shadow. He was curious on why you were wearing such warm stuff and wanted to ask but is too shy to do so himself. Sorry to bother you.' The note said causing Artie to make a sound in surprise from what Tau had wrote and quickly hid behind the bench before Tau set the notebook down and closed it before picking it and then pen up with his mouth and just trotted back to Artie on the other side of the fountain and put the notebook away and laying down on the ground by the bench Artie was hiding behind. He really wanted to run away now at this point, but he had a feeling that he would just be chased around.

Artie was rather tense when he had seen that she had followed Tau over to him and had seen him. He was honestly expecting that she would complain to him for bothering her, but was surprised about her comment as she turned around and started walking away. "U-Umm.. Y-Yeah... I'm r-really sorry for b-bothering you...a-and.. umm.. u-umm.." He replied to her loud enough for her to hear, but he wasn't sure how to continue. That was just his inexperience with talking to women thanks to his fear, for the most part the only reason he could speak to Kat was because he was usually distracted with other matters that took more of his focus. But, at this moment, he wasn't sure how to continue because of this inexperience and he didn't really want to have that feeling that he had made someone mad for his poor thoughts and needless curiosity.

Most of what was stopping the poor boy from really speaking properly was his fear though the nervousness was there. So, he couldn't help but shudder a bit at her harsh tones as he tried to find the right words to say to her. "U-Umm.. I-I'm Artie.." He finally said after taking a deep breath in a poor attempt to calm himself which only helped a bit. He opened his mouth to say something else, but just looking at her and on top of that the piled on stress of having to deal with women made him want to run away. "..Sorry.." He finally said before quickly getting up and grabbing his bag and running off into the wooded area of the park he was at just before coming to the fountain. Tau stood up after seeing his master run off before giving a look at Korosu for a moment and then looking at the direction his master went in before just disappearing into a nearby shadow after jumping into it. After a minute or so of running, he found himself at the clearing he was at earlier and was breathing a bit heavily as he sat down in the center of it and just laying on his back to look at the sky. "I really can't do it.." He said with a sigh. "I hate having this fear.." He added as he frowned and watched the sky.

Artie had been laying there in the clearing staring up at the sky in thought, wondering how he should deal with his fear. 'Maybe I just need to talk to them more... but that's hard to resist the urge to run away... I wish Noelle was around..' He thought to himself before sighing lightly, unable to think of anything to help and didn't even hear Korosu walking towards him till it was too late. Because of the direction she had come from was the direction the soles of his feet were facing, so she had tripped over his feet and fell onto him directly. "Ow!" He and her had yelped at the same time as he felt a weight hit him in the torso making him close his eyes for a moment. He slowly opened his eyes to see the face of the girl he had just been speaking to, "A-Ah... A-Are you o-o-okay?" He said quickly as he paled a little bit from his fear as he looked up at her, her face rather close to his.