Casmir had hidden himself well. She knew she could have followed his trail or tracked him down right away, but by the time she realized she needed to find him it was too late. She hoped he was okay, both physically and mentally. She hadn't fully given up looking for him, but she had stopped leaving the borders to pursue him. He was gone. She couldn't bring him back.

She patrolled the borders , mostly replacing the markers and keeping a watchful stare on the outside world. Eventually she grew bored, a bit tired, and decided to head to the coast. When she arrived she noticed a familiar gray pelt, and her tail wagged. "Well, well,"  she called, approaching casually with her tail and hips swaying behind her. "Look what the ocean coughed up," she teased playfully, finally stopping not too far from the male. She stared at the crab he had caught, not really interested in eating it. She'd been eating less lately and wasn't really hungry- not fully her fault. 

"Mind if I sit?" she asked, smiling kindly at him.

Neither was she, but it seemed the man didn't care. Aria had taken a seat just in front of the gray male, her pale eyes watching him. She then obliged anyway, although she wasn't quite sure how to eat a crab- she'd mostly supplied herself with normal canine foods like, I dunno, red meat. The pale princess gave him a gentle smile, picking the thing up with her teeth and moving it to her feet. She made no efforts to actually eat the shelly creature, but she felt he understood that she would eat it.

"Wind, waves, sand- you can't stop nature from invading," she warned him, her lips twitching into a slight smile, then leaned her head in closer to him. Her dark nose grazed his shoulder as she inhaled his scent, ears flicking. When she moved back, her tail waved behind her and she gave the man a smirk. "You joined Saltwinter," she commented, her posture straightening slightly. "How is that?" she then asked, head falling to the side.

The girl watched him with narrowed gaze as his actions changed. She wanted to ask him about it, especially as his voice raised, but held her tongue until he finished. He seemed happy enough. "So you like it?" she asked, hoping her advice hadn't steered him in the wrong direction. "I met Caiaphas once, she seemed nice enough. She and my alpha are close," she told the man, her tail wagging behind her as she began to think about Lasher. "Lasher," she added, "Is his name,"

The girl then smiled, her eyes falling to the ocean as the waves crashed onto the shore. "I come here to think," she told him simply, but her gaze never left the ocean.

The girl didn't make a comment on his response, she wasn't sure what to say to that. The girl then shrugged, unsure of how much to tell this male. She supposed she could consider him a friend- acquaintance if anything- but how much did she need to share? Aria's gaze remained on the ocean. "Casmir left," she said simply, her posture lowering slightly. Her diamond white gaze fell slightly, focused on the tide more than the ocean itself. "I suppose I just keep wondering why," she added. Truthfully, she did know. He needed a break from everything that had happened here at Donnelaith, but she couldn't fully come to terms with it.

The sound of ocean waves crashing echoed in her ears, but they still flicked upwards when the male mentioned finding Casmir. Her head fell to her paws, and she gave a gentle shrug. "He does not want to be found," she told him, "I've tried," she added, quieter than her previous statement. The pale princess then stood, moving closer to James. She sat before him, her eyes finding his. She appreciated his gesture, but there was no point in holding on. Casmir had too much going on, she couldn't stop him from finding himself. She held his gaze still.

"Donnelaith has room," she then informed him.

James declined her offer, though he let her down easily. She shifted her feet but nodded. Donnelaith just felt so lonely sometimes... No matter, she couldn't force him to do anything. She smiled to him. "I'm glad you feel at home there," she told him, her tail waving behind her. She then let the silence engulf her, as he did, and she stared into the ocean and listened to it's crashing waves. What would become of her home? She wondered if Eilidh would stay as well.