Horizon Ridge If I fall for you, I'll never recover

Pied felt a tingling at the nape of neck, which elicited a strong reaction from her; she twisted the upper half of her body to look over her shoulder, while halfway rising to her feet. When there was no one there, she settled back down, though her white fur still prickled. In that instant, she'd felt certain that a ghost had just passed by directly behind her, yet she saw no presences—alive or otherwise—along the stretch of sand... save for the pair of eyes boring holes in her from the tree line several hundred yards away.

The Omicron squinted her eyes, only for them to tighten when she recognized Jinx. She did not react to the other female's presence, though her tail gave two cat-like twitches in succession. Even as Jinx melted back into the shadows of the coastal forest, Pied turned away from her. She did not wish to pick a fight with Jinx; she wished not to interact with her at all. She knew the time would come and that Jinx would likely try to dominate her. Although not a dominant wolf by nature, Pied wondered how it would play out when instincts and bitter vendettas clashed together.

The sudden warm touch atop her head made Pied jump, an airy squeak loosing from her lips. When she whipped around this time and saw Kisu a foot away, she laughed. "Sorry," she said, reaching out her muzzle to touch her nose against his cheek. "You scared me," she told him lightly, unaware that he'd done his best to avoid doing just that.

She peeked past his shoulder to make sure Jinx wasn't creeping on them, then swiped her tongue across Kisu's cheekbone. "I'm happy to see you." She rubbed her head against his shoulder, then the side of his neck, then positioned herself in front him so that she could look into his eyes. "Ah, it's much better to be looked upon with adoration than fierce hatred," Pied quipped a bit darkly, throwing one last paranoid glance toward the trees before focusing her entire attention upon her mate-to-be.