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[Karne]

The kitsune (Oh wow his ears… they look so soft…) gave her a really funny look as Kiran left. He asked her a question or two, but it got cut off as he was promptly confronted by another girl similar in height and build to Karne herself (Her hair… IT’S BLUE! THAT’S SO COOL!). She stepped on one of his tails (SO FLUFFY!) and started yelling at him. He tried semi-frantically to calm her down. At one point, the blue-haired girl looked her way. "You, be my back-up. If he does that again, tug at his ears and I'll pull on his tail!" she exclaimed, and Karne wasn’t sure if she was completely serious or not. However, that look on her face suggested that she was. Besides, Karne was sort of tempted to tug on one of the bushy tails anyways...

The fox demon spoke to the girl, most likely to apologize or calm her down for whatever reason. Then, looking rather weary, he sat down in a chair and said something else. Of course, Karne's eyes were fixed on his furry ears the entire time. As he stopped talking and lowered his head, she set into motion. On her way over, she lifted Nani, then in cat form, to her face and murmured, remembering her brother, "Pi̱gaínete elénxei Kiran, parakaló̱." Go check on Kiran, please. Nani jumped right from her arms and soon disappeared in the mass of students, and Karne idly hoped she wouldn't get trampled. 

In a matter of seconds, she reached the kitsune. Karne smiled brightly. The ears were so close! With a small giggle, not really caring how the fox demon felt about the action, she reached out and felt one with her hands. She let out a small gasp. "Ohmigosh they're so soft!" she breathed. Although she could just as easily assume a much more mature persona, Karne was a big child at heart; easily amused, oblivious and all. 

[Kiran]

Despite the jokes being blatantly offensive, Kiran couldn't help but laugh himself as he saw Darius concede to his own ill-meant joke. He covered his mouth with his hands and lowered his head as his shoulders racked slightly with the reverberations of his laughter. Of all things, Kiran would've thought the last thing Darius possessed was a sense of humor. For the time, Kiran actually felt a small twinge of comfort. After a few moments, though, he straightened up and saw Darius' laughing face morph into a mask of seriousness. 

"All bullshit aside, I honestly don't understand why you're following me to apologize after what happened in the cafeteria. I mean...why bother? I don't understand. Didn't I insult you? Didn't I try to hurt you? Why would you still...." Kiran assumed he knew the end of the half-finished question. Just as he was about to reply, he felt something brush against his leg. He looked down to see Nani in her small cat form. "Oh, Nani," he murmured as he reached down to pick her up. He could only assume this was Karne's doing. He cradled the small cat to his chest and looked back up at Darius, previously comfortable feeling rapidly vanishing. 

"I came to apologize because I was the one to hit you. I freaked out over nothing. I just wanted to say that I really didn't mean to. It was an overreaction. I mean, I don't hit people, I hate getting into fights. What happened back there... I just flipped out and did something I shouldn't have. That's all. So again, I'm really sorry." Kiran's shaking had since all but stopped. Apologizing made him feel a small bit better. He idly stroked Nani's fur as He kept his open eye on Darius, a tad worried his apology would have somehow made things worse.