Hushed Willows Forward

Tavi wasn't sure if she should chase this stranger off, or linger, and maybe ask questions. Did she need more strangers to deal with? No, not really. Was this a messenger from another pack perhaps? Their scent indicated as much; it also told her this was a woman, not a man as she'd first thought, so there was little to fear. If this was a member of the Larksong then they were approaching from the wrong angle — but maybe they were scouting further afield? This thought brought a new chill through Tavi, and she let it manifest up her spine, and then creep from between her clenched teeth as a low rumble, probably too low to be of consequence. She did slip forward in the next moment though. Sweeping steps taking her closer to the stranger, but with the mind to stay protected by the many trees and their sweeping boughs. As she crept between the fronds of a drooping willow and then slipped out from its shadow, she saw Desna, and was immediately surprised.

Her voice rang out just before she emerged, but it didn't really matter; Tavi wasn't listening the way she ought to be. The sounds went in one ear and out the other as if she'd lost the ability to comprehend words — but when she saw Desna, watched her mouth moving, she clicked back to herself, and that rumble subsided.

In fact, she gasped audibly and jaunted towards her, and Tavi's expression was all kinds of bewildered, but also happy and slightly confused. Desna! she called out as she danced towards the girl, reaching with her snout to bop her on the shoulder, and then slipped around her, eagerly drinking in her scent and trying to identify others that she carried. She didn't smell like Saena, so that meant... Well, something, but Tavi couldn't really figure that out at this exact moment. What are you doing here? I thought you were... I dunno, on the prowl for something. I'm glad you spoke, or I'd probably have eaten your face. Hah, ha ha ha, something about her tone suggests this is a joke, but there is a seriousness to Octavia that could make any legit deadpan snarker recoil.