Discovery

Amusement riddled the beast's features as she teased with a nondefinitive answer and then questioned him, a full-fledged grin spreading across the outward curve of his massive teeth caused by her daring nature. "You're quite extraordinary," he said simply, "compared to the wolves I have come across so far. They all have their individual assets, I assure you.. but I was looking for something interesting, something worth the distance traveled from where I come from. Are all the wolves here in 'Paradise' as vibrant as yourself?"

It really didn't matter where they were, did it? Or at least, what those that came before him called this place. Paradise, it was.. as she so claimed. Her joke set the name for this place in his mind, and he locked away the image of finding her there in the tall cattails, her exotic coloration calling to him like a taunting feather calls a kitten.

He took a step nearer to her, his chilling stare wide and focused on her being. "Or are you as unique as I suspect, enchanting the territories you come across and turning them into Paradise?" He broke his eye contact with her after he finished speaking, pushing through the reeds himself as he would attempt to let his tall figure disappear into the very ones she waltzed out from. He sought the water's edge, pushing deeper until he found it. Wide paws gripped the saturated soil and grass, setting themselves to a wider stance as his torso lowered, allowing himself to relax and drink peacefully in the coverage of the reeds there with her.