you have had your little ex-feral bitty for a week now, maple is what you named him since you found him in a box in the freezing cold wearing brown. He’s a rather skittish bitty and doesn’t come near you much and when he does you have to be very slow as not to startle him with fast movements, and very gently petting to where your barely grazing his little skull

after a nap you wake up to him curled up and shaking in the crook of your neck trying to hide from the cold, poor little guy