I saw it, I swear!

For the second time in a short period, Iho answered her scared cries. He was just… suddenly there. She crashed into him. Half on purpose, half by accident as she closed the distance between them. She pushed her nose right into Iho’s coat, and looked at him with wide blue eyes. Clearly, she was thoroughly freaked. “A ghost, an actual ghost!” she whisper-hissed at the older wolf.

She kept casting glances behind her, expecting the thing to show its face again any second. Now that she was surrounded by Iho, she could breathe again. She felt her chest slowing, her breathing evening out. She did give one one ruggard gasp before pulling herself under control. She was a Princess, why was she running from ghosts? Surely it was a trick of the light? But she couldn’t dismiss it from her thoughts. It had been standing right beside her, as real and visible as Iho was now. “I was looking at the moon, thinking how strange it looked, and for a moment I thought it put spots in my vision, but then it solidified. There was this coyote, but it was glowing and I swiped at it. I- I might have missed, but I swear my paw went straight through it. It growled and chased me out here Iho. Away from my pack” what would she have done if Iho wasn’t here? Likely kept running and never looked back. She shuddered softly and leaned the side of her head against his chest. Careful not to poke him with a stray antler. “Can you… can you help me find it? I need to know what I saw.” If he wasn’t here, she never would have had the courage.

But she couldn’t just turn her back on this mystery, she had to understand it. She pulled back slightly from Iho, looking about her. Half expecting the coyote to magically appear again. “uhhh… Why is it so quiet, and what's with the rainbow fireflies?”

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