Phantom Hollow Here, birdy, birdy

With her eyes still on the water fowl in the river, Mitanni didn't see Silver shake her head, but she heard the negative answer as it was spoken. Darn. She was hoping for another unexpected teacher, but she couldn't always be lucky that way. And in no way did it diminish her desire to try and eventually succeed at bird catching, whether here and now or later on down the road.

As Silver mirrored her thoughts, the lithe little wolf turned her full attention back around to the silver-hued female and grinned outright with an excited tail wag. "My thoughts exactly," Mitanni agreed, and turning her head back to the river she let instinct set in and lowered herself into a cautious crouch, beginning to inch closer toward the river while sticking close to any cover that could be taken from the nearby bushes and trees.

She wanted very much to go darting forward to snatch one of the birds out of the water, but it seemed too forward of an approach. Could it possibly work? "Do you think if I just dived in at one of those things," she whispered over her shoulder, assuming Silver had followed and was close by, "that I could grab it before it got away?" It felt like a really daring plan, more likely to fail than succeed, but it was the best Mitanni could come up with at the current moment.