Jade Fern Grove have you no idea you're in deep

he grinned quickly, easily, as she might have in the days preceding her father's death. while the weight of grief had slipped from her shoulders, some of it lingered still, made it hard to grin with the same wildness that she'd harboured. 

"they're smarter than us, surely." her empty jaws and clean muzzle spoke loads for just how well her hunt had gone, and her voice was wry. "I'm Dawn. Where're you from?"  she'd much prefer a conversation to some more hot wandering, and the question came only a brief pause after her introduction. there was guilt at abandoning her search, but surely it was only temporary.