Blacktail Deer Plateau stardust

She accepts his compliments with a shy shake of her head, a pleased blush crawling up her neck to color her cheeks. Raid feels happy, she realises a moment later as she swings her head away to avoid looking at Aditya, and for him to be unable to see her expression, after all, god knows what state her face is in right now after his generous compliments. She hasn't been complimented...for as far as she could remember, which wasn't all that far. It is a strange feeling, she likes it, but she doesn't know how to react appropriately to it. But whatever. What is appropriate, anyway?

Aditya tells her his story, but the moment the word 'Autumn' slips past his maw, a sharp knife-like pain stabs at her mind. She exhales sharply, unable to stop the wince from contorting her features. Autumn. Where was I? Here...? The image of a boy flashes through her mind - a grey wolf with charming words and eyes of beautiful blue - and he's smiling at her. Like all the other flitting bits and pieces of memories, the picture is gone as soon as it appeared, leaving her with the ghost of a sweet feeling and a name which she breathes out loud, the sound nothing more than a whisper, lost to the wind as soon as it leaves her lips, but audible to those around her. "Remi.."