[aw] looking

Sparrow tried to walk straight, but she kept looking over at Ricochet and then drifting towards her. Nothing about the way she was acting was straight. She didn't just think that. Who was this woman? How old was she even? Where did she come from? She didn't smell like a pack, but Sparrow didn't know where she might be from.

Sparrow wanted to ask, but she also didn't. She didn't want to be annoying, but she really wanted to know. At the mention of warriors, Ricochet seemed to perk up. When she said it was too bad they were gone, Sparrow hummed in agreement, "They were really cool... And kind of scary... Some were pretty nice, though- as long as you weren't on the wrong side of the battlefield."

Ooh, she was rambling again.

At her mention of not being a warrior, Ricochet agreed with her. It made her heart drop a little. She kind of wanted to be a warrior; strong and confident, but she wasn't. Ricochet commented that she was pretty to look at... and called her sweetheart.

Oh no.

No no no.

This was not good.

Sparrow felt her face heating up. Her heart- which she didn't think could speed up more- jumped and began to beat faster, "Ah- I'm not really pretty. I mean, not as pretty as you. I mean, uh- I mean you are pretty, but that came out weird, didn't it? I just mean, like... I'm brown. I'm like dirt. You have like, the color of the sky before a storm. You're tall, probably strong too. Your whole demeanor could be like- the oncoming storm or something." Stop, Sparrow, "I'm like, the mud you'd slip in, or like a bird, or like..."

Or like actual shit.

Sparrow cleared her throat, "I just meant- sorry- You look cool and strong. I'm... tiny. Little Sparrow, the bird-sized wolf." Okay, she wasn't actually bird sized, but she wasn't even close to tall. She was acting like a bird, though. Sparrow was being small and flighty...

And annoying.

The small girl fell quiet again, licking her lips. She felt bad. She needed to explain...

"Sorry, I just... I've only left my pack like four times and this is only the second time without like... my entire family," she admitted, "It's... kind of nervous making."

Yup, it was because it was her first time out of the pack and not really in Imperium. It was because there was this non-Imperium stranger, right? Not because there was a tall, pretty girl here. Not because Sparrow thought she looked really cool.

Definitely not.