>Just a normal girl when you first met her.
>Kind, proficient, well put together.
>Makes mistakes like anyone else.
>Gentle and caring for those around her.
>Every now and again you get these weirdly intense looks.
>So seldom at first that you think you're imagining it.
>Seemingly innocuous but you can't put them out of your head.
>You think she wants you to see them.
>Coincidentally get involved with her more and more in multiple avenues of your life.
>Appears at a hobby or two of yours.
>You seek a relationship with her, flirting a little.
>Flirting denied utterly but not rudely.
>She's in excellent spirits lately.
>Starts appearing around you more and more.
>You feel awkward with your obvious desires.
>But convinced that you can make it happen.
>Can't focus on other women.
>She's not involved with anyone else that you know of.
>You try to act on the growing tension.
>She dances away, again.
>But still stays frustratingly close to you.
>If anything your floundering seems to encourage her.
>You get into a revolving cycle of annoyance, shame at your annoyance, and attempted ambivalence towards her.
>If she notices any of these moods, she doesn't let you in on it.
>Other women are nowhere near as taxing.
>Also nowhere near as strangely engaging.
>Time goes on.
>Not sure what to do.
>Settle into something like a defeated acceptance of her presence.
>Tension becomes oddly comfortable and normal between the two of you.
>Give up trying to figure it out and accept it.
>Almost immediately after you come to this conclusion.
>She somehow knows.
>She finally approaches you.
>Steps a little closer than usual and smiles.
>She gives you that same, self assured look.
>Your heart is pounding, your pulse racing.
>Can't look away from her face.
>Conflicting emotions and thoughts bubble up in you.
>Is she up to something awful?
>Is she messing with me?
>Maybe if i try again...?
>Realization hits you like a truck.
>You're totally conditioned by her.
>She knows it, you know it.
>She knows that you know it.
>You don't care.
Smug and manipulatively dominant, but otherwise wholesome fox is by far the highest quality fox. I like my kitsune to be tricky little shits.