Dragoncrest Cliffs so to impress her lady, the queen

The silence that surrounded the pair was interrupted by the sound of footsteps approaching, their steady beat echoing louder in the girl’s head as the approaching wolf quickly closed the distance. Rose didn’t dare lift her head when the footsteps fell silent, a nervous lick of her lips being the only sign that she acknowledged someone else had even joined them. She already knew who it was before the gona’s voice reached her ears, but when the quiet whisper of her name cracked open the tension that hung in the air, Rose let her ears press hard against her skull while she lifted her gaze to briefly catch the sight of her friend.

A part of her had wanted it to be Furi and a part of her wanted it to be anyone else. The gona had only ever seen Rose in her usual calm and collected state, never had she witnessed her so broken before and the idea of Furi seeing that brokenness terrified the fiery girl. The last time she had felt so weak and vulnerable she had been abandoned and even though that incident had happened so long ago, the scars of her childhood cut deep and the tiniest fear of rejection crept along the edges of the yearling’s mind. 

She sucked in a shaky breath just as Blixen made her presence known, a presence Rose could have gone without if she was being honest. It’s not that she wasn’t happy to see her fiery look-alike, it’s just that past experience with Blixen at the borders had been, well, a bit dramatic and Rose didn’t exactly have the energy or patience to put up a fight in this situation. So when the heated gona threw her questions at the inky boy, Rose kept silent on the matter. She nodded in agreement when he denied being the one to hurt her, but still no words fell from her lips. 

Instead she turned to let her gaze fall to the snowy floor, a poor attempt to hide the raging emotions that threatened to break out. Whatever internal war she was fighting wasn’t going her way and she was inevitably going to lose this battle, sooner rather than later.