Rising Sun Valley You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

She responded after a moment in which she seemed to watch him as he had watched her, and he found himself listening intently to her words, even though they were perfectly normal ones. Than she was asking a question of him, and he blurted without hesitation, "plants." 

Immidiately his his face grew heated, his maw opening and closing softly after which he said, "I mean, I'd like to be a naturalist, so I'm exploring." He amended quickly, though his face still burned. Plants? What kind of lame answer was that? Luckily another question filled the awkward silence that would have surely commenced on his part, and this one he answered much more calmly.

"No, my pack's farther south. Beyond the mountains." He gestured with a flick of his muzzle. trying to compose himself rid himself of the burning beneath his pelt, he tried a smile that came out rather decent, as he settled on his haunches.