Felltree Marsh something weird is going on: what did jan say?

@Sunny

Harley had decided that day, she was only going to do things that thrilled her. She explored inland, turning her brief trajectory away from the coast, and simply ran. Her body was not thick, but her muscles were sinewy and, when properly trained, the bullish girl could run for miles and never even stop, not even once! However, nowadays she was not so properly trained so she only made it as far as the mucky, late-winter marsh before needing to stop and replenish her energy stores. 

While she recharged, the hoyden made to explore the area — yet another thing that thrilled her! There were various small rodents scurrying about, and Harley made half-hearted attempts to launch herself after each of them, always coming up empty-handed; but this was fine, because she was her only competition, and as long as that was the case, she would always be winning! With a light heart, the cocoa-dusted girl trotted on and hummed a small tune to herself. 

Morningside had settled into a new territory and while Sunny was absolutely thrilled with the idea of new places to explore and different things to hunt it also made him nervous and he did miss the Plateau. Currently off territory he explored the nearby terrain and had caught himself a rabbit. Proudly he carried it through the trees until a figure weaved about in the distance. 


Not confident enough here to call out and introduce himself but worried that she may try to go and intrude upon Morningside and honestly just simply curious about the stranger, he silently began to follow her. He got behind her close enough to follow safely but far behind enough to be unnoticed. Unnoticed until of course his large paw fell upon a fallen branch and snapped it quite loudly. He stood there looking stunned and embarrassed, mouth full of rabbit.

and literally two months later…

she ducked her head under the branches of the sparse, meager clusters of trees to sniff at their base, where mud kissed bark and was swallowed by it. There were all sorts of interesting things here, too! She had found a cluster of frog eggs, probably the season’s first, as well as a bird plucking and pecking at a small silver fish, caught upon low tide’s lengthening sands. Then there were the snails, which she tasted with the tip of her tongue and decided were absolutely horrid, and various small carcasses which had died, then froze, and now had thawed. 

Of course, all of this meant wading through the muck and various puddles of standing water — which Harley was happy to do of course, and was actually quite a small price for her to pay. The hoyden had always liked being messy and uncouth, as the process of getting dirty was so fun, and the process of getting clean was not-so-fun. In this way, she had always been more like the boys. That, and the fact that she liked girls — but whatever, that didn’t matter now, not with Raiden gone.

A stick snapped in the background and Harley suddenly snapped to attention. She had been particularly lucky on all her travel not to have encountered a bad soul, or one who wished her harm, and Harley had begun to wonder when her luck would run out; and Harley was convinced it was right then, at that snap of a twig, at that very moment in time. She had let her guard down and destiny had come to meet here! It was about time, wasn’t it? Well, whether or not it was time, Harley wouldn’t go down without a fight. “HEY,” she called out, her bark filled with more of surprise than threat, and she whirled around the face they grayscale stranger. 

Her shout did nothing to calm the boy's fear of being caught, instead it startled him even more and he dropped the rabbit backing away. His eyes were wide but he gave a hesitant wag and a sheepish smile "Hey....I um...wasn't stalking you" he said obviously lying through his teeth. He shook out his fur and decided looking like a scared pup wasn't going to get him any cool points so he stood up straighter and moved to stand over the rabbit protectively, eyeing her warily. "Name's Sunny." he said in a calmer tone noting the way she looked just as startled as he was.

Sorry for the crappy reply. If it's easier for you we can wrap it up by having them awkwardly part ways? Or Harley can pick on him and piss him off and he'd probably fight her. either one.