Fox's Glade Only want to be a relief

No worries at all!! we can set it present day if you like <3

A girl’s voice calls and her dribbling nose jerks up. She’s wading in the river, nearly missed among the sunken cedar branches and silt-grown slate. Something odd is laid out on the embankment beside her to dry and Tauis steals a step forward with a biting curiosity, and perhaps a hope too that if it’s fish the woman might be willing to share.

“All good. The trout are just... extra slippery today,” She excuses lamely with a brush of shoulders together and a flounce of tail, loathing to seem incompetent before the stranger. She sneaks another glance at the woman whose set to work with some precision, eyeing the pile of sea-sticks she’s accumulating. Her silken silver coat drifts gently with the stream, as if almost belonging to it.

“What are you doing?” She asks in earnest, grateful for the distraction.