Autumn Riot

 


Walk | Talk | Think

As she trekked, Gale alternated between watching her feet and scanning ahead for the next place to step. Pretty as the waterfall was, she did not quite trust the unfamiliar territory not to try tripping her up during her first moment of inattention. She had far too many places to go yet to let something as silly as that happen. She was on a mission, a very important one, the first in her role as Aertus, messenger of Donostrea, and she had no intentions of calling it quits before she found her target.

One particular glance ahead distracted her and almost did make her slip on a particularly slippery bit of rock. That figure... She thought she recognized them, though that was probably absurd. They looked strangely like her brother, Terrae, the earthy healer of their family. But this is so far from home, she thought, convinced it could not be him. It couldn't possibly be...

But as she neared, not hiding the sound of her approach though she could have, the figure turned and smiled at her through the warm, friendly face of her brother. "Rocky!" she greeted animatedly, a wispy wag of her tail accompanying the crooked smile that immediately spread across her lips. "Didn't think I'd see you here." Carefully but hurriedly, the little lavender and grey wolf picked her way down the edge of the waterfall to where he stood, and as he brought up the drink, she nodded. "Yeah, but just really quick though. Glacier sent me on a mission, and I haven't finished it yet."

She said no more than that as she stopped and lowered her head to drink, though as she watched him from the corner of her eye she wondered if maybe he had heard. How fast did word travel through their familial pack?