Set sometime before her visit to BFW
Swift and quiet, Halo loped through a lingering dusk—her favorite time of day—and followed the scent of water. The raven (or crow, she didn't know) was not absent. He swung over her, cawing in his own language, perhaps wanting to pester her, but the yearling was not concerned by his presence. They had just shared a meal; or rather, Halo had eaten what she would of a hare, and he had finished the scraps as she moved on.
Mouth dry and lipsticked with blood, she soon found the source of her search, and the small wolf crouched lightly at a trickling separation of the main creek. Lemon eyes darted back and forth, and briefly she glanced up to see her avian shadow disappear into a small corpse of trees. Should trouble emerge from any other direction, she made a mental note that she would head that way.
She noticed him at almost the same time, a wayward cross-breeze bringing his scent to her that otherwise would have remained downwind. Lemony eyes took in the gray beast and immediately her slender spine prickled. If nothing else, he looked dangerous, more wild and appeasing than most creatures she had seen in her short life. Halo was not intrinsically attracted to menace, but for a moment their hawkish gazes met, and even from this distance she saw recognition fade from his eyes.
He had thought he knew her, even though she knew immediately that she had never seen this wolf before. Quietly interested, the petite creature tentatively moved closer. Her eyes picked a path to their right, across a thin tributary that she would be able to skirt across and dash into the woods if he should prove violent.
Small, sturdy paws linked to skinny black legs drew her within a few yards of him. She didn't speak at first, didn't ask him anything, but Halo watched him closely like a snake watches something larger than it, wondering if it should flee or poison. She tilted her head, easing onto her haunches at a distance safe enough to escape the large male if she saw fit to. After a moment of looking at his broad chest like a biology student studying anatomy, she piped a clear, quiet: "Hi."
His voice was like a far-off waterfall. Cool and thundering, rumbling deep and quiet inside his chest. Her ears, perked attentively atop her skull, twitched slightly as she considered how to respond. He made no move towards her, which further convinced her to remain seated there, but the small pepper-backed female kept her senses wary for any move the rangy, virile creature might make.
"Who did you think I was?" she asked then, finding a starting point for conversing with a mountain.
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She was soft, pleasant, and so the ashen brute was not perturbed by her presence. Her question struck his ears and he blinked a few times in surprise. The shadowy, narrow female was also perceptive… a rare find. Flicking his long ears forward, Kierkegaard pondered how to answer her. He was not good with words; he was lost when it came to speaking to others, however he was not entirely rude to a fault. Drawing his tongue across his lips in a moment of thought, he flicked his eyes back down to her. “I thought you were my sister,” he responded honestly. If she found it odd that she could have been mistaken for Moz, it was no irritation to him. After all, they were still very much strangers. He knew only what he could see of her.
“You are much smaller than she, though,” he padded his first comment with a slight frown. Moz was built with the bloodline of the Sairensu wolves. This nimble shadow was something of the opposite.
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Her size demanded that her mind be sharp. There were very few creatures (especially of her own species) that she could overpower. If she had not become intuitive,
watchful, then she might have died long ago. Halo was surprised to find that she resembled his sister, if only in coloration. Her tall ears gave an interested twitch, and she tilted her narrow skull at him.
"Is she missing?" she wondered aloud, knowing that
she had technically been missing from her own family for longer than she could aptly remember. She cared so little about them all now, that she wasn't even sure she recalled their names.
"What's her name?" she pressed slightly, if only because she felt half-interested in siblings that actually knew one another.
"What's your name?" she asked after a quiet lull between blackbird and ash tree.