‘Cause there’s a shortcut down the beaten path

A more volatile wolf might have heard the smaller woman's words and taken offense but all Flurry could do was laugh. She supposed she could seem imposing if you weren't expecting a wolf as tall or as pointy as her. Flurry knew no life outside Boreas and Auster, she didn't know if she was uncommon anywhere else but 2 years of experience here had taught her she was hardly the most impressive wolf. Pretty sure she'd seen a guy with wings before. Now that was impressive.

As the warm water sluiced over her form Flurry let herself breathe an audible sigh of relief, dipping herself so she was shoulder deep, even if it meant largely having to crouch. She drifted over to the edge of her pool closest to the pool the stranger was dipping herself into. "You must be new around here." Flurry spoke, her tone friendly, maybe even a little curious. "By my estimation I'm one of the more tame lookin' wolves. Don't got no bright colours or weird eyes. Hell I'm not even as big as they come. My dad's taller and my mom's got quills like a porcupine near her scruff. Plus she's purple." Flurry grinned, sometimes she wished she'd gotten the bright colors like Scald and Deluge but she could appreciate the beauty in simplicity. She certainly wasn't complaining about the view the stranger in front of her was giving. "Got the teeth from my old man." She scrunched her face to make the protruding fangs shift forward. Into attack position. Then relaxed and went back to her friendly demeanor. "But the horns are all me." Sure she wasn't the only one to have horns in her family but none of them looked like hers! She also couldn't help but chuckle as the other woman rambled on about biting water, shaking her head when the rhetorical about teeth was asked.

Flurry considered the other woman's question for a moment. Then she jerked her head over her shoulder to the looming form in of the mountain close by. "See that? Volcano." Flurry supposed that could seem... Threatening? Being so near to a volcano but she'd always lived somewhere within its shadow, even monsters can seem friendly once you're used to them. "The pools are warmed by the underground lava. Hot air escaping through vents in the pools. It's always why it stinks too! Lotta sulfur smell escaping through there too." She looked at the smaller wolf with open curiosity.

"I'm Flurry by the way. Where you from, if y'don't mind me askin'."

"Speech"