Greatwater Lake we are the reckless

Heph felt the slight pressure of Atka's muzzle and for a moment she just felt that casual intimacy that made her want to brush her body by the fur of the other wolf, it was a bit surprising. She was not a naturally distrustful wolf but instinct usually told her that other loners were unsafe to share space with like that, but traveling with Atka, Atka herself somehow it no longer applied. There was still that hazy awareness, but it was borne out of something other than caution.

Smiling into the spray of the water she too used her legs to brace herself and shake out droplets to help dry herself off. Her own tail wagged and she bounded forward, the feeling of chasing the other wolf for a moment making her feel anxious, as if she was already losing something she would somehow have a harder time letting go of than so much else, but she let her own fur brush up and contact and it felt fun and light again.

"Wherever you go I'll follow." Heph's words rushed past her throat in an airy almost careless way but they came from the air in her lungs that settled around her heart when she breathed them back in. And she fell into a playful but unhurried lope towards the mountains, trusting that she was not alone.

Got a bit poetic with this one LOL, I'm good with continuing their ascent in this thread or another whichever you'd prefer?