Haunted Wood every atom of my blood

she pauses at the quick advance of footsteps, for a moment listening to the boy. but the damage is already done; that evasive feeling of playfulness is lost, and so too has she realized just how she'd been using him as a stand-in for her sister; it is perhaps why they exist on such easy terms, when she's attacked every other pup within the borders. "it's fine." is all she says, shame and self-resentment still heavy. "I need to go meet Black Hat." an easy lie; she needs a moment to sort through the dull hurt. and then she pulls away again, once out of eyeshot laying a deliberately evasive trail.