Cerulean Cape pinocchio lay down on the riverbed

Her slightly playful expression faded as the man turned the conversation suddenly to something very serious. Talking of witnessing the death of someone... that was one way to start a conversation off. Huā struggled with what exactly to respond to that. She had never taken the danger of things as seriously as she should've, but she couldn't suddenly start now. Her body was only a vessel to her, and so she lived as fully and recklessly as she could.

She decided to tuck his little tale away, into the back of her brain for later, in case she ever changed her mind about the sea. And so she was silent for another moment. The first coastal wolf she had found here, but he didn't seem to be as fun-loving as her, more of a serious dude. What a letdown. 

Nevertheless, she did not want to give up talking to him yet. "What I pay, to have little eat? I am also hungry..." She told him as politely as she could. That seal looked delicious and watching him eat only made her hungrier. Not that she had much to offer. The way her cousin had done things, "buying" food from other wolves by renting Huā out like a slave... she did not have that kind of option. But the thought came to her mind and immediately she cringed and shooed it away.