Borderline

Ash turned gently as Artorias had come to join her. She wasn't surprised, and she was comfortable inside the castle walls so at the very least she wasn't scared he was anyone else but a member of the pack. She smiled back at him with the quick flick of her eyelashes as she went to look forward and continue her steps onward through the castle halls. If he had been inside the castle for a time, he may have noticed her nearly routine travels. She was spending more time in the courtyard everyday hoping to cross those imaginary lines in her head.

Her ear flicked to him as he asked if she was enjoying the gardens and she smiled a bit nervously in response, "I'm familiar." She looked over her shoulder past the railings that led down to the ground floor of their home, and pushed forward again. Her expression dropped just slightly, maybe enough for him to notice.  She was struggling with how hard this was for her, like she just wanted to push through it and get it over with. But in the end she couldn't do it. Not yet at least.

She stopped for a moment, looking back up to her brother, "I haven't been up on the castle walls..." She was acting a little shy but he was already here so clearly he wasn't busy with anything else, "If you don't mind going with me. I think it would make me feel better." To see the wide open areas around the castle and the oceans surrounding them. More like no one was waiting outside to grab her at the moment she was vulnerable. It was a bit dramatic but it was how she felt. It was possible that her captors had moved on but it was too soon for her to believe that.

"Ashelia Carpathius"