Tyr sat frozen, What the hell just happened? He instinctively hugged Natalya back, but it was less enthusiastic. He definitely was not ready for that to happen. This confirmation just forced a fork to appear on his life’s road. He hoped that fork would appear sometime, but later, not now. He glanced over at her father, who seemed preoccupied with showing Wolf around. He sat quietly and just decided to breathe. With the first breath of Natalya’s hair flowing into his nostrils, he knew there was no real decision. It wasn’t a decision, it was inevitability, it was fate. He had been living as a hermit for far too long. He had hid from the world long enough. It was time to look at the world, shake its hand and say, “Hello”. With that inner confirmation, Tyr tightened his embrace and relaxed his face into an indescribable happiness. He whispered in her ear, “Thank you.”
