Northstar Vale The Hunt

sorry for the late response! Was waiting to see if someone else would hop on since Hotaru is just baby LOL note to self this is before Takeshi incident but after Reiko was found death

The pale girl felt almost as if she had become a shell, numb yet full of clashing emotions that only she could decipher. She was trying to process it, but the image had been burned into her skull. To think all this time, her mother had been so close yet farther than ever. 

Something didn't sit right with the Princess, she didn't want to be near her family. There were too many questions and not enough answers, so instead, she took to wandering to the furthest edges of the territory.  It was calming to be out and experience nature, even if she was alone. It reminded her of when her mother had led her around to show her some of the earth's miracles. 

What she saw, however, was not something born from the ground. It was a wolf— two actually, and they looked nothing like those of her family. One with a pelt of fire, much like the loud boy that had stormed her family's den, the other dark as night with a touch of white... Perhaps they were Isadora and Joheras' parents, their pelts matched it at least.

Curiosity won the best of her this time as the girl trod closer. When she was near though, they smelled different, kinda salty like something she had never experienced before. Are you Isa's parents? her head tilted to the side, nose slightly scrunched. You smell funny, why do you smell? Perhaps it wasn't the most...graceful question, but she never had another encounter with pack wolves from past their borders.