Mid-Morning Drink

Walk | Talk | Think

She was polite enough, kind enough, but the tension still felt palpable to the young cat. Or perhaps it was one sided. She was, after all, an outsider among many, a target if ever there was one, and even with the implied promise of safety from this Alpha wolf it was difficult to ease up knowing how badly things were stacked against her. It made her considerably conscious of herself and what she would say, and very observant of the wintry-white she-wolf as she studied her with the same sort of interest. Maybe she felt the same? Maybe this was the strangest interaction she had ever had, the same as it was for Laila?

Only the subtle shift of her sides from her measured breathing and the curious roving of the cat's golden eyes were the only movements she made, occasionally joined by a waving motion of her tail. A new question was posed, and with it an unflattering answer was voiced. "I'm still getting my bearings," Laila replied, daring to finally draw herself up from her crouched position and leave her hind end lowered so that she could sit there beside the lake, tail coiling around her side to wave beside her foreleg. "With how hot it's been, I figured it'd be stupid to pass up a drink here." And it had been very refreshing after all morning without one. If only her choice of location had been one a little less occupied with wolves.

It seemed a bold thing to do, but so far the wolf had been of a decent caliber. And knowledgeable about the territories that the cougar presently wandered through. If she was ever going to find a helping hand, this might well be her chance. "You wouldn't...happen to know," she questioned, feeling the doubt beginning to creep into her tone with each uncertain word, "where a good, rocky location is, would you?" Yep. That was stupid. She should have kept going on her own; what really were the chances of a wolf helping a cat out when they tended not to see eye to eye and generally were at each others' throats, sometimes in a literal sense? But there was no taking back the question. It had been asked, and with a rather glum look, Laila once again let her amber eyes wander as she awaited some amused answer from the blue-eyed Alpha.