Walking On Gravestones

It was the very light crunch of paw steps that alerted her to the presence of another. For a moment she was hoping it was Nox. It was light enough for her to believe it and Nox was pretty adept at being stealthy, but there was no way her companion would come out from where she was hiding unless Armai gave her the cue to. She chose to ignore the sound for the moment and wait and see what awaited her in the next few minutes. Either one of these pack wolves had found her or she was just hearing a prey animal. Either way she didn't let her ears flick to give notice that she'd heard whatever it was.

She had delved a little deeper into the territory but it wasn't very far past the border before a howl shattered the silence. Ears flicked back nervously as she came to a halt. Now the crunching of snow was louder before she heard whoever it was slide to a halt in front of her. Her hackles raised by instinct and her mind felt like it was going a mile a minute as she tried to figure out a solution to this situation. Jaws clenched tightly over her bundle of herbs and she was hoping the mint and other strong smelling plants she'd chosen would be enough to convince whoever this was that she'd stumbled over the border by accident.

A strange accent reached her ears but she didn't stop to marvel over it. Instead her ears flattened against her skull and she crouched down lower to the earth and tucked her chin towards her throat. It was a non-threatening gesture, but if he really was going to attack her then there was no use giving him an immediate invitation towards her neck. Her tail tucked between her legs as she tried to appear rather terrified which wasn't hard considering she'd only been in one actual fight in her life and that hadn't exactly gone very far considering it had been interrupted.

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't realize this was a pack's territory." She said as she let the herbs fall from her mouth. "I just was trying to find some herbs. It's been a rough winter and plants are scarce. I've never ventured in this area before so I wasn't aware that a pack called this place home." Only partially a lie, but herbs had been really scarce. Her tone was anxious as she replied to him and she took a couple slow steps backwards. She'd come here to scout for Talis but getting attacked at first sight hadn't really been on her to-do list.