It probably shouldn't have felt so nice but his consoling hand helped uncoil the tension she hadn't even realized she'd been holding in. Burrowing against his chest and squeezing him close Sophie shrugged a bit. It was all so complicated and difficult to explain when she'd been given so many options.
"I was sent to bring a tiger back. Alive if possible. I assume for a pet for some noble," she began, though she realized she was leaving out some details. "I accepted a job from a dealer, I assume on behalf of a client that wants one. They asked for a rumored tiger from this area. 'Large male with beautiful coloring,' but I didn't have much else to go off of. The biggest tiger around, whatever I could manage... I honestly didn't think tigers were so, well, large," she admitted, chuckling softly at the ridiculous idea of her small leopard managing to drag a tiger as big as Fintan or his brother to an entirely different country altogether.
"They were willing to accept a skin as well, if I couldn't manage to deliver a live one," she added with a frown. "But I can't do that. Any of that. Would be so wrong to harm such a beautiful creature." Sophie was glad her face was well-hidden for that, the heat upon her cheeks was obvious enough to her but she didn't want him catching on just how much she'd grown to admire the natural beauty of his animal.