The spring burned, the heat searing her skin. She hadn't meant to return, remembering the cold, the chill, that came after. But the river had led her here, after she'd left behind the ghost, the fog a distance beacon that had drawn her near. She slipped between the pools, the only sound the ripple of water and claw on stone, until finally sinking into one of the deeper pools. Her gaze fluttered closed as she drew in breath, fire-kissed girl sinking completely beneath the water, until the world was only weightless warmth. 

For a moment, she was at ease - her mind stilled, the water burned away all that was filthy. But pain pulled at her lungs, and the heat began to feel destructive, and her mind began to turn again. She broke the surface again, gasping, panic suddenly reaching deep, swift and brutal. She remembered him, the things he'd done, how he'd completely and utterly reduced her. Strangled gasp escaped her as her gaze blinked shut again, focusing on the water, the burn, until her mind cleared, slowly, and the tension leaked from her once more.

Words broke her reverie, harsh and dissconant against the silence that had graced her ears for so long. Gaze snapped open to fall on him; and dark and lean angles, and she surged. To her surprise, the movement was not away, to flee into the night, but forward, towards the imposer, eyes wild with fear and desperation, fangs bared and fur on end as she lunged at the stranger, realizing only after she'd moved that the stranger's eyes were wrong.

Her fangs snapped shut on empty air a foot before the female, the woman crashing backwards in haste, water erupting from the pool. Logic broke the heat of her emotion, this was a woman. After days of numb, the sudden anger, fear and failure was jarring, and as she backed up the opposite side of the pool, she did nothing but pant and stare at the woman, ears plastered to her crown.

umber eyes enlarged in surprise, leaving kaevo in decided puzzlement.  not a moment later the woman's face transformed into a vision of anger and insanity, whilst she surged forward with a snarl and her jaws reached for the sable girl. kaevo lurched backward,  deftly attempting to dance away from the attack,  but there was no need.  Lunging jaws snapped far short of where she had been standing and then the agouti woman was retreating to the rear edge of the pool. 

wh-what... kaevo had no guess about this behavior at first.  why not go through with the attack? it was almost as if she had been mistaken for someone else. are you fucking insane? she wondered,  truly curious,  without much anger in her tone.