Take a chance

*Anais* · 02-21-2015, 04:51 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

She might not have been able to see the smile on Glacier's face but she could hear it within his voice as he echoed her choice, and a little one of her own curved the edges of her lips and caused her tail to wag once. He moved beside her, their close proximity allowing her to feel his shoulder shift against her own, and without further prompting she moved with him. Her pace adjusted to keep up with him, though she was sure he was making adjustments of his own to do the same for her. Feeling excited all over again at having chosen their new direction, unknowing of what awaited them ahead but assured by the strong presence at her side, Anais braved the darkness with her companion to find out what was ahead.

Only it was not darkness. As they moved, she thought she saw the pitch around her starting to take shapes, to lighten and almost become visible to her well adjusted eyes. She remained pressed to Glacier's shoulder, but the grey-gold girl let her curious gaze wander boldly, to either side, ahead, overhead, even at her towering friend beside her. And she could see him, even if just faintly. "I'm starting to see again," she whispered, sure he was already aware of it since he had been the first to notice the fork in their path when she had not. Did that mean..?

Apparently it did. The further they went, the brighter it got, until eventually they came upon the source of light. It hurt Anais's eyes at first, its brightness almost blinding after the dark, but carefully her eyesight adjusted and she could gaze about with open curiosity. At last she felt comfortable enough to step away from Glacier's shoulder and listened as he questioned her thoughts on their find. Her smile had returned with its natural brightness, her tail wagging softly behind her as she stepped forward into the light and looked around more closely at the cavern they had been traveling through. "I think this is amazing," she answered, obviously pleased but somewhat distracted as she padded out from beneath the light to glance upward at the fissure from which it spilled down. "And really pretty. It's less creepy here where you can see too." That was a certainty. At least now she worried less about what was hiding in the shadows.

But that did not necessarily mean she was quite done with taking what comfort she could from Glacier. She turned her smiling face on him and trotted back to his side, retaking up her position beside him with her shoulder pressed to his. "What about you? Do you still think your littermate might like seeing this place?" she asked, hoping it was a safe question. Maybe the joy of the moment, of their adventure, was making her bold enough to venture into territory she knew was touchy for him...but then he had been the one to bring up the mysterious Voltage first at the start of their investigation.

Art by Arin

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