Redtail Rise I'm walking here!

<3 It's my pleasure!

His eyes stung from the thick, unsettled cloud, and between the coughing and the sting of filmy tears, he didn't have the benefit of seeing his company's approach. Thankfully, she met him with her voice, and her presence - thought sudden - didn't startled him nearly as much as his encounter in the forest down south. Now if she had decided to simply watch him until everything settled, chances are he would have soured just as quickly as with Larkspur - with twice as strong a regret - but thankfully he had the time and the mind to think.

What Tutathal didn't have was the breath to say much, nor the eyes to see anything but a blur of shadows and shapes. So he nodded with a vigorous nod of his head and he wheezed out the most convincing, "Oh, yeah! Totally," he could manage between hackings and coughs, while he tried to figure out if the fuzzy outline he was rapidly blinking and peering at through the dissipating haze of the ash and his tears were the stranger or just another stump.