hey so my kinda gf lives here?

Kaija had spent a long, long time thinking about Ophie. Probably far too long, if she was being honest with herself. She'd never met anyone who made her feel so... she didn't even know the word for it. Nasty? Love-sick? No one had ever really seen her the way Ophie did, no one had ever just clicked for her the way her oldest and once-closest friend had. And more than anything else, no one had ever made her care quite so much, not to the point of wandering all over the world looking for her, certainly not to the point of trespassing on a pack like the Armada in an attempt to find her.

She'd all but pleaded with her to leave her pack, to go explore and see the world with her - because she loved her, more than she'd loved anyone. But Ophie had left and so finally Kaija had too, finding her home here. Settling in was a slow process for the woman who'd been a rogue for as long as she could remember, and suddenly coming across her friend's scent - wafting across the island, no doubt helped along by the ocean breeze - would immediately put a halt in some of the progress she'd been making. She hadn't been thinking about Ophie as much lately, but then all at once she consumed her thoughts, and Kaija felt her heart beginning to beat hard in her chest.

Was it relief she felt, at knowing she was alive and well? Annoyance that she'd thought she could return, without even saying goodbye in the first place? Maybe a little anger, indignation, at being forgotten and left behind? Mixed in was a fair bit of happiness she couldn't begin to deny, but its strength was dulled by the other emotions that suddenly clouded her mind.

She made her way toward the scent, slowly at first but then picking up her pace as she got closer. Again her pace slowed when her paws hit sand, and she squinted against the sun that reflected off the water, zeroing in on Ophie. She looked exactly like Kaija remembered, uninjured and largely unchanged except maybe for the natural changes that came with not seeing someone for so long. She paused for a long moment, stony-faced as she considered it. She was half-tempted to pretend she didn't know who Ophie was, to ask why she was very nearly intruding on Raider lands, but she couldn't bring herself to be so rude. "Ophie," she started, nose wrinkling slightly. "What are you doing here?" Her tone sounded hollow, like she wasn't quite sure how she felt and even more so had no idea how to express it.