Recovering From The Shades of You [Zalie]

Birna continued her trek until she reached the top of the strange mountain. As she peered down in its depth she was greeted with a bubbling pool of water and steam stretching into the sky until the cold air brought it back down as snow. It had a strong and strange smell and was clearly volcanic in nature. Hopefully it did not intend to erupt again any time soon.

Her icy blue eyes scanned the lip of the mountain, resting on a golden tigress. Birna froze for a moment, assessing the other cat. She had had tangles with tigers before and it was always a gamble to if it would be a friendly encounter. Birna was considerably large for a snow leopard but even at her unusual height she was still dwarfed by the tiger. Her ears flicked forward as she picked up the chuff. A friendly greeting that Birna swiftly returned. While a smaller cat, she was still of the panthera lineage.

Birna got to her feet, her long tail bobbing along lazily behind her as she approached the tigress. "Hello there, my name is Birna. What brings you so high up on this strange mountain?"



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