Odie found herself exploring farther out today than she normally did.  She had woke set out early today with an urge for some exploration.  So now Odette was here in the late afternoon hours, with a bunch of berry bushes surrounding her.

She yelped as her paw struck a thorn.

Swiftly she yank up her paw and began to pull on the thorn with her teeth.  It took a painful five minutes, but finally it came out.  She then gave her paw a few good licks to help clean it and after that proceeded through the thorny area.

As she continued through the place she found herself wondering if her parents had ever walked through this area.    It wasn't for much of any reason really, she was just merely curious.  She smiled as she imagined her Mother and Father walking through this area, although of course the image of her Father was very blurred as she didn't remember what he looked like.  She imagined them leaning close to each other, tails romantically entwined.

Of course she knew that this was just her imagination, but it was still a lovely thought to think of.

For a while longer she explored alone, winds ruffling her pelt as she trekked onward, when suddenly she froze as pawsteps sounded behind her.

A greeting rang out to her and she soon caught sight of the one who had called out to her.  At first she wasn't really sure to do, but then a little nervously her body began to tremble a little bit as if on cue, and she foun herself at lost for words for a few moments.

"W-who are y-you."  She ventually stuttered out, with a fearful gaze.  While the female didn't look harmful she could never really be sure.  The wolves at Silvertip Mountain had been nice and yet they had done horrible things... terrible things that would never leave her mind.

So she had her reasons.

Odie's trembling ceased ot an end, but she still found herself unsure and wary of these wolves.  Jilaiya and Amaimon as they called themselves.  She was asked for her name too, and for a moment she found herself a little bit hesitant, but finally decided it wouldn't be all too harmful to tell them.

"I'm Odette or Odie for short."  She replied in a slightly nervous tone to the female who called herself Jilaiya.  "Are you two from a pack around here?"  She then asked a little bit curiously.  Perhaps they were from Moonspear too just like Charon!  Probably not though because they didn't have that... that smell.

Jilaiya complemented her name, then went on to say that they were looking for the ocean, but neither of them were good with directions.  She gave them both a small nod of understanding.  Made sense.  Still she had no idea where they could find an ocean, so she probably wouldn't be much use to them.

"Sorry, I don't know where the ocean is but back where I live at Broken Antler Fen, its full of fens, so you get swimming, fishing and all of that fun stuff."  She told them, before shooting them a curious question.  "Why are you looking for the ocean though?"

Jilaiya's explanation was a nice one.  Sweet and simple.  A part of her wished that she could go anywhere she wanted for the pure fun of it, yet winter was approaching and so were Pearl's pups.  The one's that she would be help out with, her siblings.  The thought of siblings made her think back with a near frown.  She had lost so many siblings so far.  June was dead and so was Solemn.  Mason had disapeared after his sister's death and Stoic... well she had no clue where he was.  Then there was Adeline who she also had no idea of where she was.

She turned her attention quickly back to Jilaiya.

"Sounds fun... must be to explore new places anyways."  She remarked, offering Jilaiya a small smile.  "What made you interested in exploring though?"  Odie curiously asked, observing the two.  "And is it his dream to also go see the ocean?"

While Jilaiya was nice and all, she wasn't ready to go head off with someone she just meet, so she just shook her head, declining the offer.  "I'm sorry while it sounds fun, I have a home back at the Fen."  Everything else that Jilaiya spoke of though was fine by her, nothing else that she said made her uncomfortable or anything.  Although she did find it a little disappointing that Jilaiya said she didn't know whether or not Amaimon wanted to see the ocean.  Shouldn't she know if they were travelling together?

With a glance at the sky she noticed that it was getting a little late, probably time for her to start heading back to the Fen.  "It was a pleasure to meet you Jilaiya and you Amaimon but I should probably be getting back to the Fen before night falls."  She told them both with an apologetic look on her face.  "I wish you both luck though."  Then she started to turn to leave.