Otatso Wetlands age of aquarius

she itched. she was covered in mud from a previous slip. she was tired, and she was overjoyed. finally, she was on the carefree adventure she had longed for so long, travelling with a woman painted in fiery hues who's desire to explore matched her own. she slipped ahead of her companion, racing along some high ground and making headway into the wetland. yet she was not a creature built of grace and within a few moments did she paws suddenly skitter on drenched earth, and she was deposited with no warning into the mud once more. 

she recovered with lightning speed, lurching onto higher ground once more. she looked back to @Aoife, and for a moment thought she saw her companion in a brief flicker of movement behind her. she'd catch up, eventually. 

her head snapped the other direction when movement beside her own was heard, now that she was, finally, still. her gaze landed on the relatively large figure of a male, mottled with various hues she could not quite pick out from this distance. her voice echoed out in greeting a moment later, calling over the marshes, "Hey!" she scrambled in the general direction of the male, glancing behind once or twice to see if Aoife still followed.