Otatso Wetlands Redeye Rumble

I steal all the Haunter threads. Especially when I am drunk. :B

Fox awoke, Haunter devoid of her side, and she shivered. His presence in her den had been strange and comforting, yet she could not quite understand it. She was not sure that she ever would. Her wounds ached, but she ignored them, moving herself from the belly of her den to the mouth, where she would stretch and yawn her sleepiness away. The morning was still at least half an hour off, and she spent the first several minutes of her awakeness blinking in the dawn and trying to decide if she was fit enough to travel. Lecter had suggested—no, ordered—that she refrain from patrolling the borders for three days straight, but the girl thought that atrocious. Still, she would take it easy. Today was the last day of her medical imprisonment, and she was willing to push her limits.

Stepping from the confines of her immediate home, the lithe yearling picked up on Haunter's trail and began following it. She had no agenda with him at all, so she did not have any real reason to pester him, but she could not help herself. There was a growing attraction to him, and she would not be able to pull herself away from it. Not until he proved her wrong or did something to push her away. It would only take one push, of course, before Fox was quick to judge and hold a grudge against him. As it stood, she had no reason to do such a thing, so slowly and carefully she began following his scent.

It went away from the creek, toward the wetlands, and for a moment Fox's heart sank. Perhaps his promise to leave Swiftcurrent was the one he had decided to keep after all. Perhaps he had left her to fend for herself all over again. Just when she was about to surrender to this thought, he came into her view, and she perked her ears up. Like a small child, she ran toward him with her tail wagging and her tongue lolling from the side of her mouth. Without a word, she crashed her chest into his, not slowing one bit. Burrowing into him, she felt no words could explain how she felt in that moment.

He had not left her.

That did not mean that he would not ever leave her, for Fox was still certain that he would... but he had decided to stay for the time being.