To You, My Heart I Surrender

The soft, drowsy sound of the water was soothing to Vali's ears as she approached. Compared to a normal river, it still flowed fast, but ice made the water much more sluggish by the rapids, though it was only by the edges where the flow of the water didn't come on as strong. She smiled to herself, head dipped down to watch the water when movement in the corner of her eye - that wasn't the rapids - caught her attention, and she looked up to see Bass approach. This time, her smile was radiant, and amusement twinkled in her yellow eyes as she turned towards him. Looks like he'd catch her, instead of the other way around. "Bass," she greeted warmly, reaching forward to greet him with a simple nuzzle on the side of his neck.

His question made her chuckle and shrug. "To a degree," she replied readily."It's a bit weird being around so many wolves again.." she trailed off, before adding quietly, "but I'm glad to be home." That she was - and home was definitely here, in Abaven, with all the wolves that lived here, new and old. Though... they did lose one of their own recently, and it was still felt by the white woman, though she did not truly know the wolf whom passed. It just mattered to her that he had been pack, and also that he had been a close friend of Bass.

"How're you holding up, Bass?" Vali questioned quietly, her gaze demanding honesty and forthrightness. She knew he had to still be dealing with it; there was no way, with his personality, that he was even remotely okay with what happened so soon. Not after what happened when Hansel died, and so she'd check up on him about that. She would wait patiently for a response, though, because she knew that it was more difficult to formulate responses to such... rough happenings.

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