Stone Circle You're very tall, you're very handsome.

There was a momentary pause within which Ibis felt a flare of doubt, thinking she might have been too pushy - and then feeling very embarrassed for her insistence, especially when the woman finally turned to address her. She was very mighty, Ibis thought; she looked a bit older than herself, with a lovely coat of warm tones that reminded her very much of Okeanos, but then - she saw a flash of something sad in her eyes, something Ibis could recognize as loss or something desperately close to it, and her heart swelled. It was a very brief affair — as another body arrived, this one much more on Ibis' own level.

They were boisterous by comparison to the woman; their coat was more decorative too, with many patterns bleeding in to others, so that at first Ibis was perplexed by what she was looking at. She couldn't immediately tell the stranger's proportions as she had never seen such a speckled and varied coat before (save for Mali, perhaps!) and so it took a double-take before Ibis fully identified the wolf. They were speaking of Ira - reminding Ibis that her friend had moved. Right! How could she have forgotten?

And then Korei -- but that was cut short as the woman spoke up, cutting through the conversation abruptly in a tone that made Ibis uncertain. Ibis' mouth opened, but she wasn't sure of her words in that moment, nor if she should defend the so-called conversation that the woman seemed resistant to, or defend the speckled stranger for being more forthright -- so she looked between them and then shrank back from both, feeling evermore like a child between two bickering adults. A flash from the past.

I -- I'm their friend Ibis. She offered meekly, speaking of both her friends although it seemed as if Korei was, in fact, absent.