Sea Lion Shores Lumps of Fat

A good mood and a smile were two things that were hard to resist. The girl radiated like a little sun and Osprey, who had been like a plant forgotten in the shade and therefore weakened, felt this need to keep her around for a while. Just long enough to feel the warmth and remember, what it meant to be happy again. She returned the girl's smile with a one she had managed to muster up. For a moment it reached her eyes too, flickered there like a little flame and then it disappeared.

"It's the benefit of a journey - you never know, where the next bend of the path will take you, what secrets and wonders it will behold," she spoke from experience. Each of her journeys had taught her something new, opened new horizons and made her realize, how very small she was compared to the whole undiscovered world. Osprey didn't know anything about Duskfire Glacier, but concluded that this must be quite a distance away. She didn't agree with the girl about being a brave person, because had she had the courage, she wouldn't have stuck here for several weeks.

"What's your name?" she asked.