The pale-eared girl was still a bit shaken from her earlier encounter with Saed, but she had calmed down for the most part. Tail tip twitched as she stood in the middle of the forest, glancing around the territory for something to do. He mind was completely blank and she looked rather lost as her ears twitched back and forth on ther axis.
She thought, and thought, and thought, and nothing came to mind so she sat. A long sigh was heaved from her muzzle and she cocked her head, staring at a black beetle crawling amoung the green grass. Spindly legs struggled to grasp the blade of grass it was clinging to, and Astra lifted a paw to aid it. She hoisted the bug up atop her foot and stood up, hobbling on three legs to place the insect at the base of a tree, where the terrain was less treacherous for a tiny creature like him.
"There ya go," she murmured to it, even though it couldn't possibly understand what she had said.
It was funny. Astra felt more secure talking to beetles that talking to wolves. Perhaps because they wouldn't talk back? Maybe it was because they wouldn't judge her? Either way, she was grateful for her little friends that the earth presented her, be it as big as a moose, or as small at a beetle.
:D
Gold and gleaming like an autumn leaf, Goldhawk padded through the sunlight until he found the source of the girl he'd sensed nearby. He hadn't seen Astra for a while, and when he did he gave pause and watched her a moment. She was transferring a struggling bug from a plant to a tree — a surprising manoeuvre for a species that didn't usually give insects the time of day.
What a gentle little thing
, he remarked in a chipper voice as he approached.
You — not the bug
, he clarified with a flash of a smile.
She had been so consumed in rescuing the beetle, that she hadn't noticed Goldhawk slinking up to her. She smiled as he spoke tho, glancing up at him with her briliant green hues. "O-oh, hi Goldhawk." She stammered, but her face bore a wide smile.
She wasn't afraid of him anymore. In fact, he was the closest friend she has next to Mazi and Scimitar. Even then, she didn't know those two as well as she did him. Her gaze flickered from the beta to her beetle friend for a moment. it was now making it's way safely across the tree's bark. Satisfied with her rescue mission, she tore her eyes from it for the last time, focusing on her golden friend.
Goldhawk returned her smile fondly. He liked Astra very much, and her activity around Neverwinter — patrolling the borders, and now rescuing the local buglife — hadn't gone unnoticed.
Out on a jolly little rescue mission, eh?
he asked Astra cheerily, padding closer and gazing down at the bug, who was now off on a new adventure of its own.
Astra followed Goldhawk's gaze to the bug skittering away with a smile and an ear twitch. "Y-yeah I guess so," she told him quietly, turning back to the golden warrior. She opened her mouth, feeling brave enough around him to keep the conversation going. "W-what have you been u-up too?"
Oh, little of this, little of that
, he responded in his usual jovial tones. For some reason his mind was still on the bug and Astra's gentle treatment of it, but there wasn't much to discuss there. Chuffed to be keeping the peace, wot. Though sometimes I get a tad restless for a good old-fashioned battle
, he admitted with a twinkle in his eye.
Little of this, little of that. She could tell his mind was still on something else, however Astra didn't know what it was. She smiled at him in amusement as he continued on. He told her about his desires to battle, and her slender tail began to best gently upon the earth. "D-do you want to battle then?" She snickered, excited that this sentence came with little mistakes.