who needs forever

Watching quietly as the brunette loner began to move along, Echelon wondered if she would return to her place further up the path. It would have seemed she had no interest in doing so, however gently her veering trail was from it. Something else had caught her interest and that something was also enough to capture Echelon's as well. At the invitation, the inky Phase moved in a little closer, testing the air between them as she brought her attention down to the terrain.

Initially, Echelon did not discern what kind of prints they were. The snow dampened any true scent that could have been left via sweat or whatever they had stepped into. She doubted the likelihood that they belonged to a predator, but for all she knew it could have. She had little idea of the full range of monsters that could have easily existed there. Bears were a strong possibility, but it was no bear track. The snow melt obscured whether or not it was dainty enough to belong to a deer, but that was also a strong possibility. Pointedly after that note, she drew her gaze back to the brunette, wondering the point of why she had offered to show her such things. Had she been tracking something?