The fox on my shoulder was the size of a house cat, maybe less. Its fur was silver, glowing like the moon, and it caught the red light of the sky and turned it soft.
Two large blue eyes looked at me from a hand's breadth away with an expression that, even on its feline face, I still noted looked like curiosity.
Our eyes met, and I could not see the hate or rage that burned red in the eyes of the previous Moon Fox. This creature on my shoulder appeared to be newly born, and as it slowly tilted its head to observe me, I knew that this fox was intelligent, since it almost felt as if its blue eyes were taking apart a puzzle.
I recalled the words of the Hollow Avatar to the Moon Fox before it had accepted the link. 'The corruption that tortures your mind and breaks your body shall be made clean.'
Perhaps this, more than anything, was what made the Moon Fox allow the link to be created between me and it, and now it was reborn.
