he comes

*Anais* · 12-23-2014, 11:36 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

The blue wolf was slow in following her, and for a change it merely puzzled her. Either he was making a very good show of proving himself trustworthy and offering her every chance to keep a bit of distance between them for comfort's sake, or there was something else he had noticed that deemed it necessary. She could not, even remotely, think of what it might have been, the ice holding them up the furthest thing from her mind after seeing him stand upon it so freely. But she felt her gaze lift as he neared, accommodating his size and close proximity which was still at a distance, and still over ice. Maybe she had been right about him trying to keep her comfortable.

He was nothing but reassuring about her - their - search and of his confidence they would find Lebrah. Anais knew she ought to feel the same; he was typically so clingy getting him to leave her side for any period of time was a miracle. He had to be close, she knew, and yet it was still so strange for him not to be. "I hope so," she answered quietly, drawing her lips into a grateful smile and willing it to take a better hold there, to let that hope seep in and take root. A little optimism would have been nice right then.

To her surprise, it was suddenly Glacier's turn to be nervous. She had not suspected her question to be too prying, but on second thought it appeared to be. There was a moment of pause given by the large wolf, a moment that made her anxious over possibly speaking out of turn and asking the wrong thing, but for all his outward uncertainty on the matter he gave her the answer she had asked for. Sisters. Her ears perked at the thought, suddenly curious despite her consistent worry about her adopted son. What were these sisters like? Large warrior women like their brother? She felt like asking, but considering his wish for her not to repeat anything she figured she had heard plenty more than he had wanted her to.

"It's good that you aren't alone," she stated by way of moving on and drawing the conversation away his admission, turning in the same breath and once again picking up their search for Lebrah, "I've got a sister too. And two brothers. And more on the way." She said it with a smile, but the gesture was forced and quickly fell away. She wanted to be happy about the thought of more siblings, more sisters and brothers, but the circumstances all worked against it. Her mother was in a poor state, unable or, as she suspected was more likely, unwilling to properly care for herself in the wake of her husband's passing. It was hard to say how the pups were going to turn out.

Deciding she wished not to talk about family after all, Anais let her idle chatter fall quiet and her attention to once again fix on the woods around her. On a whim, she called for him - "Lebrah!" - unsure if it would work, if he was even close enough to hear. But now that she knew who it was that was traipsing around her home territory, and knew he was close by and not any real danger to both her and her family, she figured it was safe to try and draw the brightly marked wolf out.

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