Rainy Season

Is it okay to say not really? xD

It was only when the wind shifted that Malachi wished he'd have listened to his instinctual warning to turn away and find another cliff to occupy. The boy stopped some paces from Scarlett and froze like the falling snow. There was something different about the woman today, another scent intermingled with her own. Yet where another might have found the smell enticing, he found his paws treading back two paces on impulse. Something was off, and it was then he noticed her discomforting posture, as if she had something to hide.

In different circumstances he'd have dismissed Scarlett's stammered greeting as a product of her shy nature. She'd been nervous around him since he'd given her a place in the pack. But paired with her anomalies that moment, the boy took her struggled words as another red flag and he didn't dare approach closer. Was she sick? Injured? Both struck a chord of concern, and Malachi's ears twitched to the side as he tried to study her further from the distance he was at. "You alright?" he asked, lifting his paw in hesitation. He could tell she was embarrassed, but for what Malachi had little clue - and some quiet part of him wasn't sure he wanted to know.