Dae looked down at herself. She didn't feel the cold, she didn't feel the heat. One of the very few good things to come from her secret, that is until she made a foolish mistake like this. She hated lying but she had to fake it somehow, less he start asking questions. "Now that you mentioned it." She said, rubbing her arms, though not a bump could be seen nor did a shiver quake her body. "I was much warmer in there then it is out here...." She said,That was one thing she'd learn from the Fae, how to lie without lying. She never said she was cold, or wasn't, just that he'd mentioned it and that it was much warmer inside then it was outside. Also true. She still didn't have a fur of her own, she didn't bring one, if she moved to go inside, she would have had to take someone else's fur. She could probably ask Eva, but the girl was so much smaller then her, she'd never be able to pretend that it belonged to her. "I'll be fine, thank you." She said, trying to remember to occasionally rub her arms.
How odd it was, that it was he to whom she ran into. He was -as much as she hated to admit it, and probably never would- much more handsome up close. Dark guarded eyes, snow pale skin, midnight curls the framed his face, he seemed to have soft features as if he took after his mother, that sharpened when given to him. Why was he alone suddenly when he seemed perfectly friendly with General Dorian. "You are suppose to wear a mask, it's the rules of this place." She said, glad for hers although, for something reason, why way he looked into her eyes during her song, he seemed to see right through the mask, both of them.
"Humans are often cruel. The crowd hasn't given any thought about how an animal might feel, alone in a strange place, forced to fight... They might not care if told. Even in my home country, people enjoy violence without a second thought."
Xiao Jingshen looked behind her to find a man with a lovely swan mask adorning his face. She knew his voice but couldn't place his name. He said humans? Was he not one? She would have known him if he wasn't.
"I am sorry." He said, after placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. She sniffed. "Why are you apologizing to me? you didn't hurt me, or the bear." She said, looking at him strangely and it was then that Tenanye joined them.
"Are you alright, Little Sparrow?" Tenanye asked and Xiao Jingshen nodded. "The King's cousin, hurt that poor bear..." She told her and Tenanye smiled softly. "He'll be alright." She said and Xiao Jingshen sighed. "I'll ask him when he wakes?" She said and Tenayne shook her head. "No, no, not here." She said and looked to see the man with the swan mask. She smiled beneath hers.
"I know you." She said, and Xiao Jingshen shook her head. "That's against the rules, Meimei---oops." She covered her mouth.
"You are the youngling that looks like my friend." She said and Xiao Jingshen smiled. "Oh! Hello!" She said, her tears all but dried now. "I remember!!" She said happily. "Are you not human?" She asked only to receive a look from Tenanye. She shruck back. "But he said...well, I was upset and I didn't know why that man would want to fight a bear, and he told me that humans were sometimes cruel....So...." She said shrugged. "I wanted to know."
"Forgive her, She is Fae, we are curious people." Tenanye said and Xiao Jingshen sighed. "Do you mind looking after my sister for me, I'd like around." She said and would be off the moment he said yes, if he did.