Phantom Hollow Sneaky Sneak

Huh, Mitanni wondered as she looked at Judas were he lay in the mud. There was evidence enough that his tactic was sound and worked well. Despite his fur being lighter than her own, the mud managed to break up the pattern of his coat and allow him to more easily blend in with his surroundings. If it worked so well on him, the mottled black and brown female had to assume it worked just as well on her.

Or maybe too well. Rather than state that her mud mask was decent, the green-eyed male jested and pretended not to see her at all. Her lips twitched and curved into an amused grin as Judas looked around him and spoke at random to the air, fully committing to his act. It was silly to watch, and even funnier coming from him. He'd struck her as a serious individual, but maybe she'd read him wrong.

"Jeez, I must be a natural if you can't see me," she joked back, her voice smug as she stepped away from the riverbank and just out of the mud. "Maybe I don't need your help after all." It was an outright lie--whether or not she needed it, Mitanni wanted all the help she could get. But because he had started the game, she wanted to jump in and play it.