all welcome!
axo tagged for reference (but welcomed to hop in)
Still lacking a proper introduction to the rest of @Axolotl 's companions Maera felt adrift.
She had tried to help as best as she could, filling the chaches with whatever she could find and keeping an eye out in case any of the affected seemed to be particularly in distress. So since, Axolotl was the only soul at this party that she knew, she stuck awfully close to the man during the first hours or their arrival like a lost child.
Then fearing she'd come off as clingy, and honestly not being able to recognize herself in the easily attached wolfess she had seemed to become since her feet touched the island, Maera decided or rather forced herself to stray from Axolotl's side for a a little while.
Confused and anxious, Maera weaved erratically around the island.
not sure where this falls around the introduction/meeting thread so imma just continue that they don’t know each other yet :D
He succeeded in gaining her attention and for the moment she suspended her fretting. They looked at each other, blinking in their unknowingness. He did not know her, yet she smelled faintly of Axolotl and the brute wondered, momentarily, how that could possibly be — but he doesn’t linger on the thought for too long, shrugging it off as another surprise shared at the behest of the island’s unseen forces. Things that didn’t make sense, somehow they made sense here. He conceded himself to this long ago — and the variety kept himself entertained. There was always some new task and new problem; a new land to be explored and with Coelacanth here, Komodo found himself quite at peace. He did not expect this feeling to last long, so he resigned himself to enjoying it while it was here.
The brute cocked an eyebrow at the young girl. He looked down his snout at the little red skittish thing but the grin upon his lips foretold his good-naturedness. “Y’alright?” he questioned in his roughhewn tone, wondering if he would get an answer to his question or if she would would avoid it entirely.
perfecto! - sorry short & stupid
Before the man spoke, Maera kept her hopes that he had not been watching her for too long. But as soon as words escaped his mouth all hopes crumbled, he had witnessed it all. A sudden tingling that felt as if her coat had actually caught on fire climbed up her legs, chest, and onto her cheeks: embarrassment.
"um, yeah i just....." she barked, suddenly cutting herself off because truth be told, with the phsysical exhaustion she had brought herself too her on-the-spot-lying abilities also seemed to be too worn out to respond appropiately. "im good now" she finished abruptly, her shoulders slumping as she tried to shake the last bit of humiliation off herself.
Maera was more than ready to let the whole thing fall into the back of her head and be forgotten, but her companion didn't seem in much of a hurry to leave it. Again he questioned if she was alright and Maera noting the humor that tinged his voice decided to reply with a playfulness in her voice as as well, "ya, that's pretty much the only thing im sure about these days " she bantered, the tip of her tail twitching as slowly, all anxiety was replaced with a sort of amusement and curiosity for the man.
"are you alright?" she asked then, her eyes seeking his.
He seemed perfectly fine, yet Maera felt as though asking was not only the polite thing to do, but pretty much what she had to be doing given that she was here to lend a paw. Even if it seemed it was her who needed it.