Unspoken Friendship (Patreon)

Mike was born into slavery. Evals was captured. As a dog, Evals had been raised to believe that foxes weren't to be trusted, as there's a lot of hatred between fox and dog keidran in the wild. But at this point he didn't have much else to lose. Both would later go on to be sold to Eric's father as ship hands, and later inherited by Eric himself.