Honeyed Pasture great scott

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Escorting @Huojin to the coast was one of the easier missions she'd been sent on, but after her talk with Hydra and Lyra, she was filled with nervous energy. At times, she asked Huojin to scout ahead in order to give herself time to settle down — not far enough that a howl couldn't reach between them, but far enough that she could veer off the beaten trail for a time and skulk in the tall grass. Currently, she was watching the grizzly gorge itself, remembering all the bears and all the stories of bears that'd come to her on Moonspear.

None of these stories encouraged her to approach, but at least it wasn't a mountain lion. She'd have to turn tail in a most unmannerly fashion, if that were the case.

Since the bear seemed absorbed in its meal, Alya stood to depart and catch up to her cohort, only to find that another was just as absorbed in the feast — from afar, of course. The male did not seem much older to her than Huojin — all wolves younger or as young as Hydra's first litter seemed like children to her. But this one was undeniably handsome, and out on his own, after all.

Have you seen one before? she asked him, swinging wide, wide around the bear to speak in a voice low enough not to disturb it. Doubtlessly, it knew it had nothing to fear from them.