When the rabbit raced past, Hel was startled, leaping straight up into the air, only to watch in abject horror as it vanished out of sight. She could have caught it! Hel huffed, half ready to leap into pursuit after the creature as it headed towards its realm of safety underground, when another pup appeared. Head swinging upwards, Hel grinned when her gaze settled upon a brown pup that looked only a little bit younger than she. "It went down there!" Hel sounded proud of herself for having located the rabbit's den, and as she gestured with her paw towards the hole in the earth that the thing had run into.
Ears pricked towards the other, Hel practically bounced in place, unduly delighted by the presence of a pup that wasn't one of her siblings. This was exciting! "Well, you look like my daddeh but different." The eyes were definitely the same, Hel thought with a twitch of her ears, but it was the other stuff that was more exciting! "Who's . . . Signy?" Her clumsy mouth struggled to pronounce the unfamiliar name, but within moments, Hel had shrugged it off and was turning her attention elsewhere.
"Mah name's Helena. What's yours?" Though she went by Hel most of the time, Helena was still more fun to say than plain old Hel.
