Sunset Valley heart of the wilderness

indra, finding new encouragement in that heavily scarred smile, returned the expression with a warm, beaming grin of her own. he wanted to play! he wasn't like that weird wolf, which made indra breath a sigh of relief inwardly. it didn't occur to her how dangerous this situation could have been, or how dangerous the situation with the 'no play!' wolf could have been either; no one had warned her before of the perils of strangers, and indra (stupidly) saw good in every person, regardless of their exterior.

to teach someone to play, why, indra could think of no higher honor and she carried her task with a great and weighty importance. slowly she rose and the mud squelched underneath her; her expression took on a semblance of strange solemnity.

"well, first you do this." she tapped the mud with a soil-devoured paw, splashing in the puddle as she watched him. "then you do this!" she lowered her chest to the ground and wriggled her bum in the air in the classic play-bow stance. "that means you want to play see? and then..." she paused, as if to say what you did next -- but she gave him no chance to respond or register before she barreled towards him clumsily with impish grin and wild giggles.