Northstar Vale Chasing the day

They had gathered in the vale, collecting together at a rendezvous point situated beneath a canopy of immense oak trees. Ibis slept so deeply she was practically dead to the world — so overtired from her hike up the mountain, the run before that, the roaming, that she did not even dream.

She did wake, though. Erupting from sleep with her body overheating yet again, feeling intensely thirsty. As she scrambled to her feet she was taken aback by the strong scent emanating from her nest of a bed. She shook some of the forest debris from her thin coat and journeyed away from her patch of ground for some quick urination, then sauntered along until a path opened up - leading to a meadow.

There she saw a pale figure - at first thinking it was Reiko - and so she chuffed, drawing closer with a sleepy smile on her face, not realizing it was someone else entirely. Behind her emanated the alluring scent of her first heat; it was not yet as potent as Reiko's own, but was no doubt prompted by it.

And because Java takes too long to write sometimes, she missed that Reiko was actually there too. Maybe its a case of double-vision caused by the fever pervading Ibis' body; but she doesn't notice her friend until she's closer, and does a double-take.