Unexpected Refuge

Quote:With a jolt she came to, her thoughts picking up where they had left off before she had begun to uncontrollably doze. Just resting, her thoughts swiftly repeated in what felt like a mantra that she knew deep down was impossible to adhere to. She was physically and emotionally exhausted from the harrowing escape. Rest was truly the only thing she wished for in that moment, above finding her pack and above finding a more decent shelter than the open creek bank. Movement was simply beyond her; staying put seemed the best option.

Gold and purple eyes blinking, her vision blurry and out of focus, Ashtoreth lifted her tired muzzle from the cold earth and turned her head to stare down the length of the creek. For a moment she saw nothing within the unclear, swimming mess of rippling water and unnaturally tall grasses, at least until her vision cleared a little. There, plopped down in the center of the creek, body half soaked by the shallow water was another wolf, no doubt the one whose words were presently coursing back around through her mind again, ready to be heard this second time.

And she did hear him, if only a moment late. The blast? she wondered, her weary brow puckering just slightly as the little grey wolf tried to make her tired mind make sense of his inquiry. And suddenly she understood. The "blast" was the eruption. This must have been another of the refugees, seeking the same sort of comfort that she did amid the creek's soothing trickle.

Unbidden, she smiled, her bleary eyes closing as she rested her muzzle upon her outstretched foreleg while still facing the unrecognized stranger. "Yes," she answered hoarsely though with audible relief, somewhat embarrassed by the state of her voice now that she had heard it but too exhausted to truly care. Attempting to redeem herself, Ashtoreth quietly coughed and spoke again, "I'm guessing you did too?"

-- ashtoreth

OOC: Yaaay! c: Happy to have him join the thread.