Arrow Lake I

are you okay?

the boy's large skull flinched upward at the voice, and he turned wide, haunted eyes on the unfamiliar she-wolf as he came suddenly into wakefulness. the cold -- the aching numbness -- had suffered him to sleep, yet  adrenaline was quick to wash all unpreparedness away; keeping ego from noticing how painfully stiff his body had become while lying there.

his hackles continued to flare due to the startling, but a thunderous growl died on his lips, and his expression grew self-conscious as it seemed to occur to him that there wasn't any immediate danger... that this wasn't then. his posture deflated swiftly after, and he was able to take in the other canid without a veil of fear pulled down over his gaze; able to see her as more than a threat.

she was raven-dark -- her slender breast cloven by a river of white only about half as striking as her frost blue stare. though not quite as defensive as before, the young male still sounded terribly irritable when he asked her to repeat herself:

"what?"