Silvertip Mountain And if love keeps giving me lemons

Maia didn't realize she wasn't alone until she was almost on top of Draper.  I'm g... oh.  Oh!  The first thing that registered was embarrassment when it dawned on her that this guy probably heard all that.  The second was shock because this... wasn't a wolf.  At all.

Umm, hi, she said nervously, backing up rather rapidly.  Which wasn't the best idea since she had abruptly forgotten she was, in fact, climbing.  Her hind paw hit the edge and slipped, but she jerked forward.  Woah!  Okay, wow, not that way. So she instead just stopped, lingering near the edge and hunched a bit to keep from suddenly (for no reason) toppling off.  They were higher than she was strictly comfortable with.

She'd heard plenty of stories about coyote encounters from Wraen and was trying to control her panic response of 'oh no, are we going to have to fight right now?'  Because Maia didn't fight.  At all.  Ever.

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