Just as she was considering lounging in the sun for a little while before returning to castle grounds, a terrible racket ensued. With a sudden growl and the yipping of something fleeing for its life in the distance, the fur along the ridge of her neck and shoulder stood up. Her pale blue gaze remained fixed in the direction in which the sound came, however, she wasn't left guessing for wrong. A red fox crested the dune, and behind it tailed its predator. He was difficult to make out in the distance but didn't appear to be that much older than herself. Her eyes narrowed for a moment as she tried to make out more detail ... however, it was then that she realized that they were headed in her direction. The boy seem pretty well fixated on his target, and she didn't want to get in the way, though there wasn't really a place to hide on the open beach. So she made the decision to wade back out in the water a little ways, hunching down in the surf. Not that it gave a great source of cover, but at least it was something.
Luckily- or perhaps unluckily for the fox- the pair ran right past her, seemingly unknowingly. The hunter, entirely engulfed in his pursuit. It was then that she got a clear look at him- his amethyst tones with etched-in gold and obsidian markings like she had never seen before. After they passed, her attention immediately shifted to the silhouette of the ruins in the distance. She should run. But just as Talyssa glanced back to the boy chasing the fox, her ears were struck with the ear-piercing scream of presumably the latter. It was like witnessing a disaster, and she simply could not look away.
Professor
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