Fading Waterfalls

It has been so long since Terra had ventured further then a few feet from where she laid her head down to sleep. She had to talk herself into coming out this far just to get food that her body desperately needed. Her waning strength and lack of prey animals near where she sleeps, had driven the girl here. Perhaps the storm was an unlucky turn of events but, as she places her smaller paw on top of the icy-hued boy’s larger one, Terra is suddenly grateful for the twist of fate. The ties that bind Lotus and the earthen girl together are both similar and glaringly different yet they are theirs to bare together. It feels nice to touch another wolf and not be slapped, or shouted at.

A small, gentle smile is on her dark lips as she agrees to follow him and Terra feels her heart flutter as he turns his paw over to squeeze hers. The smile grows before she lets her paw fall away and her eyes slide down to their meal. She digs back into the meal, a new zeal for the meat apparent in the way she tears off a larger chunk of meat. Lotus speaks and the earthen girl turns her emerald gaze up to him, a gentle smile on her lips. Any direction? This is new for her, freedom to choose, to go anywhere she wants! It is… scary.

Turning her head around while chewing her meat slowly, Terra finally raises her paw and points out a way, moving the meat to the side of her mouth so she can say, “That way?” She poses it as a question, uncertainty still present in everything she does. She doesn’t know where she is and, for all she knows, that way could be certain death. But, Lotus wants her input and, together they can face anything… right? Subtly, the girl shifts closer to the taller boy, enjoying being close to another wolf once again.


"Terra Qilaq"