a very round friend

Although she was wary about venturing far from the territories during this unusual weather, she was desperate to make some kind of sense of it all. She wanted some kind of answer to bring home to her pack. The strangeness of it all put her on edge. Although they were getting by, their herb stores were running low. Naturally. Surely all the plants, laid deeply to rest under mountains of snow, were also wondering when they would see the sun again. Blowing out a breath as she trekked the outskirts of the thicket, Theo also found herself wondering when she'd see the sun again. The warmth of the sun felt like such a faraway memory now. As she left the thicket the cracked brown sticks and dead grasses that fought valiantly to reach towards the sky petered out into great drifts of snow. Just white, white, everywhere. Alouette soared high in the sky and would commiserate with her mistress and friend later - even from a birds' eye view, there was only white.

Just ahead of her she could see a big - a huge - porcupine? trundling along. It'd been a while since she'd seen such a big creature. It almost rivaled herself in size which was a bit intimidating, but she didn't mess with other creatures enough to be truly afraid. Most creatures kept to themselves in these parts... but the weather conditions had made everything unusual. Just as she wondering the demeaner of the creature ahead of her, she watched its feet fly out from underneath it on a sheet of clear ice. It was barely noticeable, only glinting in the sun at certain angles. "Oh!" she breathed, watching the poor thing tumble down a steep incline ahead of them before landing in a heap on the banks of Firefly Lake. "Hold on!" Theo signaled to Alouette overhead to fetch her med kit. Hopefully the big ol' fellow wasn't too banged up.