As Relm grew older, she was having more issues with the way her father had been treating her her whole life. Sure it was nice to have freedom and do whatever she wanted whenever she wanted, but it almost made her feel like Kefka didn't care enough about her. His lack of physical contact in her youth made the hurtful feelings become stronger. It was a natural instinct especially while she was out a mother that she wanted to be close to Kefka, but unknowingly to her he struggled with an anxiety he wouldn't admit to anyone. The he would lose control with his own daughter as he had with Agria. The northern lands had continued to grow colder, and the Devil's Spout may have given off even just a warm atmosphere. But not only was it dormant at all other seasons but the winter, the entire geyser was frozen under a sheet of ice. Relm was disappointed to say the least, Looking down and around at the shiny surface with disgust. She was expecting to come here, north of her home, to catch some warmth over the extended winter. And all she found was ice. She wondered if Auster was as cold as it was up here and the southern continent was constantly on her mind. But Kefka still kept ties to a woman who was never around, and it was starting to make Relm resent him. Why couldn't they just move down to Auster where they both loved to be? For now though she was just getting pissed off that she came to the spout for no reason at all. Walk "Talk" Think

Perhaps Sparrow had been brought in by the promised warmth- though scalding and otherwise deadly- that the geyser had to give. Maybe she was just bored. She had been navigating the north for some time now and she decided that, nope, she didn't really like it all that much. Sure some hardened warrior might want to make land here or something, but Sparrow was pretty sure with the lack of food the only wolves here would be emaciated any time of year other than spring. Okay, maybe that was a bit of a stretch, but still, she did not plan on coming back here unless she was fleeing which... wasn't all that unlikely with the planned raids in the future.

Though the geyser was nearly in view, except it wasn't. Sparrow tilted her head. She was sure... somewhere here. What DID stick out like a sore thumb (what's a thumb?) was the neon pink wolf ahead. At first, she thought it must have lost all its fur and had its skin scalded by the heat but... no there was fur. Well, sometimes fur got stained by berries and stuff- Sparrow knew from winemaking. Or maybe this wolf was actually wearing a shirt like her father did. While it may have been somewhat strange in hue, the wolf was otherwise normal looking- no horns, scales, strange paws, or glowing. Well that was good. Probably.

"Pssst! she called, "You seen a beam of scalding water near here?"

The wolf that approached Relm wouldn’t startle her, but the manner that she did made Relm tilt her head to the side. Relm herself wasn’t extremely social, and where there were little hints to say this girl was or wasn’t herself, Relm certainly wouldn’t have psssed at someone to get their attention, at least someone she didn’t know. She was quite blunt in nature, asking about scars or just a general “hey, you”. But the girl’s addressing didn’t really offend her, she just didn’t know how to react to such a greeting. Relm turned toward the frozen pane as she mentioned looking for the geyser, "A beam? No. But last season there were streams of water and steam that spit out from the ground here." Relm looked down at her paws while she pondered why it had went away. While it was clear the geysers were frozen, this was in fact Relm’s first spring so she couldn’t compare to other springs. She was also used to the cold weather of the north so really all of this was normal. Still didn’t make her any less bummed. Turning toward the girl, she was only wondering why she was so interested in this beam of water. She didn’t relate the description to what she had seen the season prior. "You looking for someone? Or just... I don’t know, on vacation?" Walk "Talk" Think

The woman looked at her, quite shocked and Sparrow cheesed it up with a large smile. The woman said she didn't know there was a beam, but then explained exactly a beam. Sparrow nodded slowly, "Yeah, that sounds.... like a beam to be honest with ya. But no? None? Damn." Sparrow looked around as if she could manifest one from thin air. It... didn't work. It was just another flat, icy area. The woman asked if she was looking for someone or a vacation and Sparrow barely held back an eyeroll.

"I was looking for a beam of steaming water that shoots out of the ground. Possibly to weaponize. Possibly to toss myself into, depending on the day. I dunno. You?"

Relm squinted at the woman, was she mocking her? Playing games? Maybe she just liked to start trouble? Relm couldn't disagree and usually she would welcome that kind of behavior. But no, this lady was rubbing her the wrong way from some reason. Her tone, her attitude, she couldn't put her finger on it. "I said it wasn't a beam. A burst, a spray, but not a beam." Her head titled with an obviously fake smile, one she meant to show before it dropped back down to an expression of more annoyance than anything. "Are you going to be deaf to that too?" She didn't really care about offending the woman. She was bigger and older than her, but she would have stood her ground either way. Clearly she was no sissy. Walk "Talk" Think

Ah, now Sparrow got it. This pup was mentally impaired. Sparrow nodded to herself as the neon thing went on to rattle off a lot of beam-sounding things before saying that it wasn't a beam. Well, it made sense, a pup, in the middle of nowhere, no family to be found, no pack smell on her scent. It was probably the reason this thing was abandoned, besides the fact that its fur ensured no prey animal would even NOT see them coming. Honestly, Sparrow expected a hawk to scoop up the thing for lunch at any minute.

Sparrow tossed her look to the side, tsking her tongue as she looked lazily back, all amusement gone from her face, "Maybe the color of your fur affected your brain, but all that sounds like a beam to me. If it's not a beam, then what IS a beam, huh?"

Sparrow looked around now, she was still sure she could find what she was wanting somewhere, in the godforsaken iciness of this place. With the one fire and ice duo from the pirate ship, Sparrow was beginning to think the north turned everyone's attitude to ice too.

Relm rolled her shoulders with her eyes, but it seemed the girl was just as stubborn as her. Or, at least in this moment it was something Relm took into relation. "A beam would be much bigger." Not that the other woman was wrong, it was just how Relm defined a... beam. She didn't see the geysers as beams. Just a matter of personal opinion, right or wrong. Honestly a silly thing to get worked up about. Though, Relm did enjoy heating others, and even heating herself. She went to walk around the woman, side eyeing her in the passing, she was still set on finding her non-existent beam. "Good luck finding it. There's nothing here." She was identifying the beams, or not beams, she was looking for. It seemed the north only found the warmth here during the winter. Which was nice, but not when the death winter was eternal. She then went to leave, not interested in other squandering between the two. She wasn't very found of the woman, of course her immature mind may have altered what good or polite feelings that could have came out of the encounter or any encounter for that matter. -Exit Relm unless stopped- Walk "Talk" Think