For a few moments she held doubt in his arrival, thinking he had forgotten or something had happened to him. Perhaps she had misheard him; had he really said dawn? Today? Those thoughts soon vanished as her eyes caught sight of his outline in the distance, a sigh of relief escaping her lips. Her form visibly relaxed as he approached her, scarlet eyes flickering to the sky. The sun had finally decided to rise - its bright rays tickling the horizon, making a small, sly smile tug at her lips. Just in time.
He greeted her with a question, which she didn't mind. The girl never considered herself an early-bird, as she preferred to rise whenever she woke up. As a pup she had been quite a sleeper, and always had protested whenever her mother or uncle decided to wake her and her siblings and take the family somewhere. "No," she slowly confessed, staring down at her paws. She didn't want him to think that he had dragged her out here. It wasn't like she could have gotten more sleep anyway. "But I couldn't sleep."
