Rising Sun Valley There and Back Again [Discovery Thread]

Awww thanks! I like how good you are at writing Red as a realistic character, I always appreciate a good realistic wolf character (Ptarm is turning out to be more anthro than my other characters were which is also refreshing). And short posts are cool! Major powerplay would be things like... Pretend Ptarmigan is in a thread she isn't in... Or autohitting... Stuff like that. Mild time skips and small things are totally fine by me.

She wound through the trees, paying little attention to them aside from noting their spindly, papery trunks. She wouldn't have known an aspen from a Douglas fir, but she had only seen a few of these sorts of trees before. She recognized the strange trunks, although she was probably mixing them up for birch trees.

Before long, the pair of silent females emerged at a lake. “Cool,” Ptarmigan exclaimed, returning Red's excited look with a bright smile of her own. “Never expected a lake here.” Without any respect for the cool temperature outside, nor a word of warning for her fellow canid, Ptarmigan jogged to the shore and began to wade into the water. A slight hiss of discontent revealed that the water was cold, but still she did, until she had sunk in it up to her tummy.

After all, cleaning any residue from her butt was a good enough excuse for Ptarmigan Endore to take a bath even in the most frigid of seasons.