The Sunspire Like Stars at Night - Never Lonely

Heph considered Atka's words. Catching the scent of a wolf she knew on them and the other tells, considered what staying meant as opposed to going somewhere but together. She considered what she knew and what she dreamt and what she desired. And she felt her throat tighten around something that tasted sour - not jealous or bitter or even fully sad. Not in the moment, only towards and into the future.

The world was wide but even a single forest somehow held mysteries to be uncovered and she thought about that too, the things she wanted to continue to know and learn about Atka, about herself. And her choices, what part, what little spit of a big world would be big enough for her what it meant to stay. She considered the ocean, wondered over the distance of it and to it and her plans that somehow had not quite shifted.

And she could see Atka trying to see her, but Heph did not know what she would find. There were things she could say or ask or wonder, but the why was only ever shifting water to the solid yet changing shore - there one minute and gone the next and never the same as when first stepped in. Her ears rotated to the side and she searched Atka's own features in the starlight, and there was a moment of confusion as her features twitched around a question, that slid out her throat "Stick around where?" Because she thought she might know but she did not know. And somehow the words were there.

awww good emotions though! And sounds good :D I'll have to think about what Heph would do but I have some threads planned around the Heartwood so she'll be around for at least a bit!