take it on the other side

Between the two of them, it was only the saber-toothed wolf that was rewarded for his efforts. A speared fish caught on one of the fangs was held limply in his grasp; a more jarring sight than she had anticipated seeing, and she looked away quickly, not certain if it was polite to stare, or if she was even brave enough to stare at all. She did not feel particularly embarrassed, or even upset by her inability to fish in the slow shallows. When Lament kindly asked if there was another method of fishing she might want to try, she cracked an impish smile, though she still seemed unable to meet him eye to eye.

"Well, my favourite is finding a river at the base of a mountain, where fish seasonally swim up stream." She concluded her bad joke, trailing off with a low chuckle. There was no way anyone would be able to help her with that. "I think I'll figure it out with a bit more practice," The earnest optimism in her tone was indication that this was something she sincerely wanted to master, but the catch in her voice indicated that it might take a significant amount of time. "However, I'm not particularly keen on something that requires me to put my head under water." She flared her nostrils, clearly agitated, and gave her head a little shake, doing nothing to rid her fur from the water it had absorbed.

The glacier waters that fed the streams that ran through the mountain she lived on her far too cold for her liking, so she had never gotten used to being drenched. Snow was more frequent than rain, and she could happily opt to stay in a shelter or den whenever it did rain. She had never experienced the brutal heat of summer in the lowlands, however, and would eventually learn that swimming could keep her cool; but that was not a lesson she would learn today. "I've never seen a river that could get so deep or wide." She marveled, glancing from the fish floating towards her, out past the sandbar, and beyond the fast-moving section of the Rio Grande. "Everything here is just so interesting and bizarre! Sometimes I still think I'm just in a dream." It was as if her world had turned into full colour, compared to the drab grey of her former life.

"Speech."