A black nose cautiously sniffed the odd herbs in front of her. With her experience with Naira and her willow twig, she was beginning to become less cautious of strange plants and start to welcome the plants when she needed them. Her leg has healed up quite nicely, but she still possesses the slight limb to it when it was broken a few years ago by her father. Since she’s had it for so long, she doesn’t even notice her weird gait or the limp in her walk anymore. It feels normal to her now.



But still, Athena was cautious of what plants to ingest, just in case someone decides to give her deadly plant instead of what they alleged it was. The sight of the lavender soothed her suspicions, though. She’s seen this plant before, in the meadows and sometimes in the forest and knew what it was called from her teachings with Hope when she was younger. She was still uneasy about ingesting the “enlightened emperor”, if that was truly what it was. Athena didn’t want to take her chances on it being some sort of deadly plant; so deciding not to eat it was her plan. Anyway, how could she really trust this wolf when this is the first time they’ve meet? Plus, they started off on the wrong foot. So yeah, no enlightened emperor for this gal.



Umm….thanks she said glancing back up at the wolf in front of her. Trying to be polite, she scooped the lavender towards her with her paw. She still had her guard up around her and didn’t know if she’d really use the plant. The only wolf that she’s actually become closer with had been Fallen. Athena felt comfortable around him and her guard went down pretty fast. But now with her new “companions”, if you want to call them that, she’s had her guard up twice as much. Some wolves aren’t what they say they are and she doesn’t want to be the fool that finds that out.



My name’s Athena, she told the other female. She felt it was getting a little awkward, so breaking the silence with introducing herself was the only thing she could think of. She never really liked telling others her last name for some reason. She liked to keep that part a secret. Like many other things about herself.

”My name is Nina. Nice to meet you.” As the other female told her, her name, Athena gave a slight nod in return. Well at least she knew her name finally. I wonder if Rhysis or Valiant know of her? she thought to herself. ”I hope you get better soon. Being ill in the mind is one of the most unpleasant feelings you can have.” Athena instantly was offended. Even though she was trying to be nice and friendly, this woman crossed the line. {I}Mentally ill?{I} Yeah, maybe she was a bit stressed, but she wasn’t ill.



”What the hell? I’m not ill in the mind! What kind of shit are you on?” She couldn’t contain herself with this insult. No way was she going to be nice and just let her say she was mentally ill just because of a little stress. This idiot had no idea what has happened to her. What she’s been through in life.



It was time to leave. Even when Nina offered to hunt together, she was no way going to accompany her. She needed to get away from this psycho wolf, get back on her way. She turned herself slightly towards the trees, ready to get away from this wolf. This woman no way intimated Athena, even if she was a bit larger than herself. She’s had lots of experience training with Hope in her younger years. Though, she didn’t think it would come down to a fight again, but she had to be ready if the crazy woman decided to attack her because of her words. Head down, posture ready for any oncoming hit, ears pricked forward and eyes pinned on the woman she’d be ready for anything at this point.