A lot like the wind

Watching him carefully but subtly as she glanced between him and the many hot pools surrounding them, she noticed his brows furrow. He didn't seem amused by her comment meant to poke fun, but she couldn't exactly tell what he was thinking. His expression was not very telling, except to say 'not amused'. Whether he was angry, hurt or confused was beyond her. However, he did answer her question without any reluctance, and she mimicked the name of the pack he'd mentioned, letting the name roll off her tongue softly. So, there was a pack in the East called Fiori, huh? She'd never heard of it. But then again, there was much she hadn't heard of, since she'd spent so much time alone after her family split apart and the pack she'd been born to was disbanded.

His next statement caused her to grin slightly and exaggeratedly roll her silver eyes. "Well, duh!" she said with a huff, white-tipped tail flicking from one side to the other, "That's because I've never been around here before. I come from the North; it's my first time so far east." She knew she was being insensitive. Was she going too far? In a way, she didn't care, but something told her to ease up a little bit. Sighing, she padded a little closer and looked up at him, seating herself in front of the tall boy. "Sorry if I'm a little cranky," she said, although she knew she was lying - she'd poked fun at him and gave him a hard time on purpose, "I haven't eaten or slept in a while." That part was true. She'd only gotten a few hours of shut eye, startled awake from a nightmare and plunged into the loneliness of her day-to-day life.

After her apology, she stood again and moved toward the edge of the pool she'd been near, reaching out a paw once more toward the warm water's lightly churning surface. As she played around with it, she looked to the boy again. "My name is Saffron," she introduced herself, "Like I said, I'm from the North... the pack I was born in is long gone, though, so I've been on my own for quite some time." Her green-specked eyes searched his duo-toned gaze, curious about him for some reason, wanting to get to know him a little bit, to perhaps find out why he seemed so quiet. Though not all wolves liked to talk a lot, she would wait for him to speak, gray ears flicking in his direction.