Alex very much wants to be there but teasing it off seemed easier then admitting it. "You are just figuring this out? I thought the blushing gave it away." He smiled up, said blush coloring his cheeks, at Wren from where he was giving Inari her deserved attention.

"She's lovely." He chuckled lightly as he gave her one more definitive scratch before standing up again, lightly brushing the dog hair from his pants. "Is she named after the Japanese Fox spirit or the town in Finland?" He asked curiously. The origin of names was often a story in of itself and it was the kind of useless knowledge he collected and knew by heart.