How did this happen

She sighed softly once more, the tiniest of smiles tugging at her lips only at the way this wolf spoke. She didn't seem aggressive, just curious as to why Ellasyn was there. Maybe she had gotten herself a little too close to a packland, or maybe this really was a home and Ella had, indeed, trespassed. Noel's words of force claiming pulled at her thoughts and a wave of panic spread through her. Yet, that didn't seem to be the case, that this was a packland. "Thank goodness, I wouldn't believe anyone senseless enough to make this a home." Perhaps as a buffer it's defense was well and good, but not as a home. It was too dingy. It was a breeding place for bacteria, and she was certain anyone who stayed in the mushy earth for too long would come out with dead and decaying paws.

She hummed lightly then, gaze flicking away from the woman and looking towards the distance, the way she had come. "Not so much lost...more that I went too far." She said softly, turning back towards the stranger. "I have made a temporary home in a shrine across a river in that direction. I fear I am too far gone to make it by nightfall, especially with nature refusing to allow me to leave this swamp." She said with a small, forced laugh, another soft sigh slipping from her chest. Her brother would be furious, and if not furious, certainly beyond worried.

"Burn Baby Burn"