Phoenix Maplewood Further we fall

The dark little pup pulled away from Zephyr, coming to her. She held still as the girl circled her, eyes flicking to her as she went. When she finished her inspection of Aglaeca the pup made a remark that made Aglaeca's ears flick forward in concern, and odd feeling in her chest. Love. She already felt protective of the girl, even though she had just met the little one. There was something about small, cute things that made to want to protect them, she realised offhandedly. "Don't worry, Chusi. No monsters here." she said softly to the girl as she trundled back to Zephyr.

He spoke, of a fiercely territorial pack that guarded these woods. She nodded, grateful for his help. Had he not been here, she may have been facing a fight better avoided. At his next words, she considered, then nodded curtly. "Fine. If you think that we will be safe there, then to the ravine we will go. But we will keep moving, as I always have, until we find a place worthy of settling, in the least only for a while." Secretly, she too longed to see the sea, as she never truly had in all her two years.