Mount Apikuni ii: bugs, underfoot

she drifts behind him like a phantom, intent on haunting him with her bleached and faltering presence. she is intrigued briefly by a jagged stone she carries for a time before discarding. when she finds him again, he is not alone and she slides beside and behind him to take her place, a shadow late in coming. ears are pulled back and stance low in subservience as she regards the woman. she is the perfect image of some docile, meek creature, save for the sharp-cut lances of her optics as they flicker once to the woman's own emerald gaze, drawing slowly her own conclusions, thoughts, and electing easily to remain in submissive.