4.16

"Have you found yourself a boyfriend?" I chuckled, leaning against a tree to catch my breath. 

Chipe jumped and played with a smokey grey and black fox in the meadow ahead.

Yipping at me, Chipe continued to play, before the two tumbled and lay down. Chipe was submitting to the other fox. 

"It's a girl," a soft, feminine voice spoke from behind. 

Startled I spun to see a sweet, young elf girl. 

"Hello," I greeted her, noticing the beast-tamer uniform. 

"Nice to meet you, I'm Izzy and this is Nyx," she smiled warmly, with a strange familiar glow.

"Hi Izzy, I'm Lee," I introduced myself, feeling irritated at using my fake name, fake identity. "You're a tamer here?"

"Volunteer," she took a cautious step forward. She looked nervous and scared. Was it because I was acting like a man? "I completed my training as a tamer, but they've no paying positions open."

She seemed upset about that.