Trouble down to an art

It had been a while since Ray had last had punishment dutites, or had found a way to get into trouble. Her parents had gotten too accustomed to her ways and knew how to foil her plans. Perhaps she needed to step up her game, find ways a little further from her comfort zone. She was two season's old now and growing fast, and was already the height of a short adult.

She considered bringing Mortar along on this mission, but decided she had gotten him into enough trouble later – she didn't want to push the boundaries and lose the trust of a friend she cared for. So it would be alone that she would make her way to the border. Excluding her trips to Ren's territory, she had only left Donostrea lands once before in her life time, and already she was a third taller then she had been on that trip. She hadn't gone far then, just to the other side of the beach to explore a cave that hadn't at that time been flooded. It had been open land, the mouth of the cave visible from Donostrea territory. It had been... safe.

This time she turned south from the Prairie, and found her way to The Deluge. Crossing the border was heart-hammering event. Would Glacier see her on a patrol? Would Voltage feel her sudden absence and know what she had done? She shivered, stepping very, very slow over the border marker and once her last back leg had crossed the line, she took off like a bullet. Tearing across open territory until she could disappear in the tree line at the other side. Winding her way through the trees she didn't immediately stop, but kept on until she found the small poles by the ravine. The smell of the place reminded her of Terrae; earthy. She stepped closer to one of the pools, watching the gentle ripples created by the life inside. She had never seen a little pool before and she was terribly curious. She plasted her nose to the surface, the edges of the water tickling against her nostrils. Her wide eyes stared within, trying to make out what she could see moving within.