Silver Creek To build a home

WC: 376

As it was, with the snow falling softly on her solver-flecked shoulders, Oryx felt the chill in the air as she approached the stream. It had not yet begun to freeze though, which was fairly encouraging. She wondered if it would, and when that might happen. It didn’t look too deep or too fast where she was, but she could have been wrong- she wasn’t one to try and risk her life on ice if she wasn’t absoutely sure it was completely frozen. 

Her back-turned ears picked up the faint sound of another wolf approaching and she lifted her dark muzzle just ling enough to catch the scent of a male- one of a few she’d caught in the area, all mingled together. She tucked her tail without even thinking of it but waited rather than running away. She cast her silvery gaze here and there until she caught sight of the pale creature coming toward her.

As far as wolves went, he was of the handsome sort- there was an animalistic confidence to his swagger that gave him a manly, attractive allure that oozed masculinity. Naturally, while part of her knew to fear a confident male wolf, she was more consumed by his charm and the way one side of his face calmly observed her- and the other side showed what she hoped was approval. The tip of her curved, white-tipped tail began to wave between her hocks and she licked her lips- a subservient albeit somewhat nervous habit of hers- as she angled herself sideways to defer to him as he approached her and the stream. Though she regarded him only with her periphral vision- and a few furtive, stolen glances here and there- her attention was all his. 

He chuffed a greeting to her, and she responded by quickening the wagging of her lowered tail and the quivering of her ears, voicing her greeting in the form of an eager, gentle whine. Another shy glance was cast his way, but she sidled sideways gravefully, gesturing with a deft but casual motion of her muzzle for him to approach without fearing that she might turn him away. Everything about her posture was meek but welcoming too; shy but eager to have met someone new.