I Know I'm Not The Same As You

Exploring was fun, exploring to forget how you don't know what to do with yourself and are really only doing it to suppress the emotions you don't know how to do with in an attempt to procrastinate your life away... somehow less fun, but still a little fun in a masochistic kinda way. Today she was farther north in Auster than she'd been in a while. Maybe eventually she'd even make it to Boreas like she was supposed to, buuuut not today.

Today she was investigating these friggin' ginormous bones! Like, some resembled reasonably sized trees, they were so wide in diameter. Prancing through the dusty landscape as wind kicked up clouds of dust, she'd taken shelter among the bones until it died down. Rather than leave, Iskra was lounging inside one particularly large skull and enjoying the shade it provided on another hot summer day. When she happened to peer out from one of the long-dead animal's eye sockets and spotted a pale woman passing by, Iskra couldn't help but call out quite suddenly in her deepest, most intimidating voice, "NONE SHALL PASS! TURN BACK, TRAVELER!"

It was about at the word 'traveler' that she started to lose it and burst out giggling. Even if she hadn't frightened the woman, Iskra would still be tickled with her attempt. Poking her head back out the eye hole, Iskra called, "Kidding!" with her best attempt at a disarming smile that hopefully said, 'don't be mad'.