Buried treasure, but less fun

"Oh, no, it's okay. I needed to get up anyway," she insisted with a soft chuckle when he told her that she didn't need to get up on his account. Maybe it was just her own perception of what she should be like around their leader and alpha, but she always kind of assumed that she needed to be extra polite and courteous around him - though she was fairly kind and polite to pretty much everyone she came across. It was just part of who she was. When he agreed to help her with getting back into her den she sighed with relief, a more genuine smile coming to her face. It would be far easier to just have him help her since he was already here instead of having to go all the way back to the ship and try to find one of her siblings to help her instead. If she could just get the remainder of her herbs out of her den then she'd be in much better shape in setting up her new room more permanently within the ship. She didn't know if she'd move back to her den once this weather finally began to turn around, but only time would tell. Perhaps it would just be easier for her to stay closer to the rest of the pack from now on.

She nodded in agreement when he asked her name and returned his grin when he mentioned telling him where to dig so that he didn't ruin anything in the process. "Yes, I'm Chrystelle. You can call me Chrys if you'd like." She hadn't necessarily felt afraid of him the way some others seemed to after he took the pack from Winter, though she had been uncertain of him purely just from not knowing much about him. It was interesting to see the difference between how he was now and how he had been at the challenge. Right now at least he seemed very sweet if not just slightly awkward, but it was almost endearing in a way.

She came up beside him to point out where the entrance of the den was, drawing a bit of a semi circle in the snow with her paw from where just the top of the domed roof peeked out form under the snow to where the snow drift seemed to start. "Right around here should do it. Even if you just open it up enough for me to slip in that would be wonderful." She looked back at him with another apologetic glance, her ears flicking uncertainly. "I'm sorry you have to help me with this. I was just getting over a really severe illness before this horrible winter kicked up and the cold hasn't been helping things."

"Chrystelle"