Douse This Fire

As soon as he was cleared to resume all his normal activities he had hit the ground running, exploring and patrolling and even venturing up into Boreas for a couple of days. Something about being cooped up in an infirmary bed for so long and then still restricted on how much he could do for a while after that had gotten him stir crazy so once he was allowed to do everything again he wanted to be everywhere and doing everything. He had kind of hoped that Syanna might want to join him on his adventures occasionally since she was an explorer herself, but every time he wanted to go somewhere he could never find her. The first few days he just thought it was coincidence, their paths missing each other or just being on different sleep schedules, something of that sort. As more days passed he started to wonder if there was something else going on, wondering to himself if she was actually avoiding him.

The pang in his chest at the thought surprised him and he tried to remind himself that there was no reason for her to hang out with him and that it was silly for him to be so caught up on her when they really hadn't spent that much time together, but he couldn't stop thinking about her and trying to figure out what he had done wrong. Sure, she had been mad at him for getting hurt while saving her from that saber cat, but that couldn't be it, right? While he was confined to the infirmary she had visited pretty often and had been right by him through that first day after he got hurt, but once he was able to go out and do things again... she was suddenly gone. It kept gnawing at him and worrying him, making him pick apart everything he had said and done to find anything that could have driven her away.

Finally he just gathered up his determination and set out to find her so he could find out what was going on once and for all. He had already been out in the gardens outside of The Hallows' borders contemplating all of this when he decided so when he started going back toward the castle to see if he could track her down he caught a hint of her scent leading away from the castle toward the falls. His ears perked and he immediately turned toward that direction, following her trail. He noticed as he walked and as he got closer to her that her scent seemed even stronger than normal and... different. He couldn't really place why, but it wasn't different in a bad way. It was weirdly intoxicating in its own way and he gave his head a shake to try and clear it as the sound of the falls reached his ears and he could tell he was getting close.

When he neared the pool at the bottom of the falls, he easily spotted Syanna's vibrant form where she stood near the opposite side, picking some of the plants that grew there. His steps slowed as he watched her for a moment, looking at how the sun lit up her fox-like pelt and how the mist coming off of the falls drifted across his line of sight and made her look even more captivating somehow. His ears flicked uncertainly at the thought, butterflies dancing in his stomach. He walked closer to her, giving her a bashful smile. "Hey, Syanna... um... I hope I'm not bothering you, I just haven't seen you around much so I just wanted to make sure everything was okay." His pale blue gaze found hers curiously while he waited on her answer, trying desperately to focus only on her words and not on how pretty her eyes were.

Ezra Adravendi