Emberflame Ridge and they were roommates

Varinril was coming to realize she did not like climbing very much. It required more energy than she was willing to spend. There was not much to look at, either. She's seen one tree since she begun and that had been nothing more than a razed husk, torched by some foreign element. If there was any other vegetation to be found, she did not see it. No plants meant no prey. No predators either. Seeing as they were hiking across this range and not inhabiting it, that was fine by Varinril. Now, if only gravity would stop chipping away at her energy reserves...

She climbed up and up, the travel very monotonous. This brought her to think about her recent companion, Mallaidh. The girl seemed a bit all over the place and who could blame her? Who had their lives - let alone themselves - figured out at the tender age of one year? Varinril could not recall what she was like back then, forcing her childhood into some dark corner. She could not recollect anything nice about her infancy nor her adolescence...Best leave those memories alone.

"- to come with me?" The sound of Mallaidh's voice comes flowing into her ears, urging her onward. Who was she talking to? In her haste, she kicks a few loose rocks out of her path. The pebbles roll away and off a sizeable dropoff, no doubt declaring her presence. Varinril slows her ascension when she spots Mallaidh's unique salt and pepper coat. She seemed to be chatting up another girl. It all clicked into place then. Drawing close to Mallaidh, she offers a cordial smile to the slate-furred wolf, the mirth reaching her eyes.

"Hello." Her voice was as warm as her mannerisms. She looked between the two of them, smile still present. "Another friend for our journey?"