Heron Lake Plateau wuornos

He was behind her for a few seconds, but when she paused and looked around she caught his silhouette in her peripheral vision and glanced at him, at which point he motioned at some thick grass standing tall over a burm of snow. It was hard for her to judge the incline because of the slush all around, but given the go-ahead by Phox meant she had to try. The snow was partially melted in a narrow band along the edge of some exposed stone, and with each step she would lift her paw free of the cold mess and shake it off, as if touching the slush was too strange for her. But she pursued the path anyway, and as the earth began to ascend she climbed across the ledge and hoisted herself up to where the grass was waiting. Camilla dipped her head and sniffed at it, and found faint traces of the same musky scent — and for a moment she was pleased. This showed in the slight raising of her tail, a hesitant confidence working like a wave through her body.

As she continued to investigate she concluded that something must have passed along the burm sometime in the morning. Perhaps there was a fox den around here — so she rooted through the grass for further clues, but in the end the scent led her a few more feet along the ridge and then it faded out. Maybe this was the termination point of the trail and the creature was in the other direction — she thought of this and lifted her head, surveyed the ledge that she'd just climbed. For a moment, with the light slanting just right, she looked almost content, her body no longer holding all the tension of her abuse but rather, focusing all of that nervous energy in to a job.

But she remembered Phox when she spotted him searching nearby, and everything seemed to return to her all at once; her tail-tip twitched, and her posture sagged again. She climbed down off of the ledge and sought Phox out for another bump of her nose against his shoulder and then cut across his path away from the scent's ending point, hoping to find something stronger so that she could prove her worth to him.