Overture Downs Feel quite clean in this new skin that we have grown.

He hadn't meant to startle her, but startle her he had; she seemed to have been lost in her own world, and visibly jumped at the sound of Breccan's voice. His ears turned back slightly in apology, then pivoted to face her seconds later as she admonished him. The corner of his lips twitched almost imperceptibly as she called herself a lady, but otherwise he carefully schooled his expression into solemnity.

"Sorry -- I didn't mean to scare you. Or order you around. I just liked your singing," he explained with a shrug of his shoulders. If she wanted nothing to do with him, he would move along and try to do some tracking before the clouds burst open, but he decided to make an effort to be friendly first. "You're from the hollow, right?" he asked, canting his head to one side as he gazed up the slope at her.