When he reached me, he did not drop it.
He simply stood there with the toy in his mouth and his amber eyes on mine.
I rested my hand on his head.
The day everyone thought he had become dangerous was the day he showed me the deepest truth about working beside another living creature.
Trust was not believing he would always do exactly what I expected.
Trust was knowing his loyalty might sometimes arrive in a form I did not understand fast enough.
Titan leaned against my knee.
The park was quiet.
Nothing moved beneath the leaves.
And this time, when I told him we could go home, he followed me without hesitation.
