Firestone Hot Springs if I had a heart

Aure! her heart lept and sunk in a single moment, and she burst towards the woman, tail held high. "ma-" the word died in her throat the moment her gaze met the woman's, and two whole eyes peered back. she backpedaled, thrust so suddenly back into the omnipresent heaviness that it almost hurt. this time, anger and helplessness was accompanied by shame. 

the stink of the sulfur had her feature wrinkle more than they already were, her ears flattened back. "I'm fine." she replied, though the words were far from sounding stong. stupid, stupid of her. she was so completely stupid.