i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

"Good!" She cheeped, tippy-tapping at the sand with her front paws, shame she didn't have kitty claws cause she'd definitely be a kneader. "Been workin' on my stories and tryna meet new people, Dad said I need to put myself out there some more." And he hadn't even said it in a rude or pushy way, just a gentle nudge in the right direction.

A lot had changed, wolves who had always been around in the background were...starting to not be. Made her head and heart hurt sometimes.

"My family used to live here, was the Ashen Empire yanno? My grammy is-was an Empress, think that makes me a princess or something. You really should bow to me." She grinned, all teeth, all mirth-knew she was being a pest.