You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

Ah! Delightful! The slender woman thought to herself. Crossing the Barren Dunes was not something she'd like to do again! She barely survived! She had followed the winding old riverbed that had once fed the deluge above ground straight through the dunes. The vision of the lush and wet valley was a sight to behold.

She tiptoed down the slope carefully into the valley. Black paws daintily questing over the ground in search of solid purchase. As she reaches the bottom she sighs deeply as the temperate winter breeze plays with her fur. The water bids her closer and she approaches it just as another does. More large males, she was beginning to grow ever more wary of them now.

She eyes him nervously as she leans down for a drink. Finally quenching her thirst after her dusty desert journey.