Lake Rodney just a little bit further, just another push

Water drippled from her pale maw as Shandra lifted her nose from the shores of the lake. Something had roused her, a song so terribly sorrowful it caused her heart to wrench in her chest. She looked this way and that, dual-colored eyes scanning the shore downwind. It was only a few seconds before she bore witness to a very unusally coloured wolfess, marked by her fur of red and umber. 

Due to the seeming intensity of the unknown woman's sorrows, Shandra hesitated to approach, but in the end, her curiosity and passionate heart got the better of her. She trailed along the shore in the stranger's direction, adjacent to the gently lapping waves of the lakeshore, her limbs soaked from feet to ankles and the sound of splashing accompanying her footsteps. It was not long before she stood a few feet away, and here she paused, lowering her tail to display a nonthreatening posture. Her words, as always, were flat and emotionless, but her eyes were soft.

"Hello?" she spoke. "what's the matter?"