You make me feel like I'm someone

That immediacy of his response, the way he hurried to get up so they could go to wherever he had decided was the perfect place, warmed her heart and she found herself grinning up at him as he stood and their eyes connected again. It wasn't just a small smile or something she forced to try and alleviate his fears. It was a real, true grin as she watched her mate get up to start preparing for this trip that their collective need to get away had decided would happen right this very second. "Just you and I," she agreed, her tail thumping against the fur under her before she rolled to her feet as well. A quick trip away shouldn't have been so exciting considering how many little explorations and vacations they had taken together since they became mates, but it was and she let herself get swept up in that moment of excitement, letting it lift her out of that darkness for even a moment.

She moved around the cave as well, collecting things to pack in their bag for the trip. They packed enough food and supplies to hold them over for a few days, but she knew they could always hunt once they reached wherever they were going. She didn't even care to ask where he wanted to go. Wherever it was she was excited to be there - mostly because she would be with him. They put together the bag pretty quickly from the supplies they had stored in the den and once it was securely on Iroh she went back to fold up one of the furs they had a couple of times and draped it across her back so they would have something to sleep on. She went back to her handsome man, grinning up at him as she tipped her head up to press her lips firmly to his for a moment. Their loss and the pain that came with it still lingered and it probably always would, but for now she could enjoy this momentary reprieve while they found themselves again in all of this. "Lead the way," she told him, her tail wagging gently behind her.

Elise Adravendi