winding roads that lead to home

The sound of another voice broke Vanta from her intent focus, her crystalline spine bristling in alarm as she spun on him, tiny teeth bared. The sun flooded into her eyes from behind his frame and she squinted hard, thankful she'd at least caught sight of him before being blinded again. "Oh, it's just you Crux." She stated wearily, rubbing her sore eye with a paw before gesturing meekly to the tunnels. "I'm chasing a mouse, but I don't know which way to go. I don't want to get lost." She turned her head from him (and the light of day out the cavern entrance) and opened her eyes, allowing them to refocus back into the dim lighting with less pain.

Skirting around the sun shaft from above, she returned to poking her head in and out of tunnels. "I don't even hear him anymore, how am I supposed to figure out which way to go??" In Vanta's mind, she had to be successful in this hunt. Allowing a single mouse to stay set a precedent that they all could stay, and then they'd eat their bedding and food and.. and.. the whole pack would fall to pieces! Azure would surely think it was all her fault, too. "Can you help me, Crux?"

"Speech"