OOC! "Pack paws" XD

The snow was cold against her face. Oh course she'd do a face plant in front of her - her what? The dark woman was completely and utterly lost on what the meaning was behind what she felt when she was around the russet man. All she knew was how happy, free, safe, warm, fuzzy, excited and wonderful she felt when she was around him. Her cheeks grew warm from embarrassment as she pulled her face from the snow and faced him. He padded over to her with an unstifled grin. He explained what she had done wrong and began to clean the snow from her face. She closed her eyes as a warm smile crossed her maw which was soon accompanied by a hum in her throat and wagging of her tail. She let him finish without protest and when he stepped back she reopened her eyes to look at him. "Thank you" she said quickly before he began to speak again. She didnt want to interrupt him.

Tagg explained that what she did is how the foxes do it and that he felt like they could do it with more dignity. Tilting her head ever so slightly with confusion "Why would they want to shove their face into the snow?" The feeling of snow going slightly up her nose and coating her face was not pleasant and not something she wanted to repeat. However her russet hero said that it took him a while to master not falling on his face. Great she huffed lightly to herself, she wasn't looking forward to more face plants. Moons attention was drawn from her alight sense of dread to the smooth voice of her companion as he explained how to land in more detail. “You want to land on your front feet first; that puts all of your weight on one focused point that stuns your prey. Be careful though, or you could hurt your paws.” Her silver eyes watched him as he spoke as she tried to not get distracted by his handsomeness. She nodded with a smile, "front feet first got it". She affirmed while he eyed her. He continued to say that one needed to have their back paws land close enough to their front ones to have a focus point of force but not too close that it causes them to do a somersault. He also explained how he had done plenty nose dives into the snow but didnt have anyone to teach him and he was self taught. Moonshadow saw his chest puff with pride and she agreed with it. "Wow you taught yourself?" She asked in honest amazement while knowingly stroking his ego. But she didnt mind because she knew that he wasn't the type of wolf to let his ego get to his head. "That's amazing" she added smiling at him with her tail once more wagging with approval.

OOC! Out of character comments here

She chuckled at his nose scrunch when he said who knows why foxes do what they do. She agreed with him and when he said it was an effective way to hunt small animals that were under the snow her curiosity was perked. "You can hunt and get something that you can't see?" She questioned curiously. That was something she'd most definitely like to try. She allowed him to answer and she listened carefully to his words. Different ways of hunting had always intrigued the girl and as far as self taught went she was no stranger. Having to perfect and learn to hunt on her own after losing her family was the only way she could have surivived. So that's what she did - she knew the basics taught by her father and brother but everything else she had to teach herself.

He encouraged her to try again believing that she could get it. Moon was a bit more hesitant this time around for she didnt want to look foolish in front of him. Something inside her screamed to not look dumb and to impress him. So she nodded and sallowed the huge lump that had formed in her throat. She readied herself remembering his pointers. Standing in the scrunch position for a moment she took a deep breath. She pushed off her back legs but with less power than last time. Again her arch was good and it looked like she would land perfectly. That however didnt happen for at the last moment her weight shifted forward. This time only her muzzle hit the snow before her front paws landed then her back. Pulling her nose from the snow she huffed then shook the white powder from her face. "How was that?" She asked already knowing it wasn't perfect but maybe he had another pointer for her that would keep her whole face out of the snow next time.

OOC! That's fine with me! They definitely need to talk

His explanation of mice and rabbits living beneath the snow made sense. Of course that's where'd they go. Where else was there for them to go in the winter? She giggle at his proclamation that he was exceptionally good at it. Just as she was going to speak he added that he wasn't much good at anything else. She snorted at the words. "That's not true! I'm sure you're amazing at a lot of things. You kinda have to be if you fought in a war" she smiled hoping to show him that he is in fact amazing.

She stood to try the pounce again. Doing better than last time but still not quite she asked him how she did. He told her she was letting her front end come down a bit too hard and showed her how to do it once more. Mercury hued eyes watched as he jumped up and landed gracefully. Her silver tipped tail waved behind her as she soaked up the technique. He instructed her to hold her head back more and moved her feet into the position they needed to land in. The stance was indeed strange but now that she had a better understanding of how to hold and position herself she readied to try again.

She lept upwards with the same power as the previous try. This time she made sure to keep her head back and front feet forwards. She closed her eyes as she went down. She opened them to see that she hadn't landed face first! Her tail began to wag wildly as a yip of triumph left her maw. She had did it! She looked back to Tagg with a beaming smile. "I didn't face plant!" She exclaimed happily while stepping out of the snow. Pride filled the ebony woman as she had got it on her their try. While she wasn't anywhere near perfection this small feat was good enough for now.

OOC! Ouch didnt see that one coming XD

The sudden change in his demeanor caused Moons silver tipped ears to drop and guilt to fill her. She hasn't meant to say anything to hurt him. A whine left her as he mumbled that killing was a talent to be praised. She cast her eyes down to her paws as she was unsure of what to do. While she wanted to go to him to try to make him feel better she felt like he wouldn't want that. So instead she stayed put and mumbled "I'm sorry". She moved to try her pounce again still feeling the sting of his comment. Despite her dip in mood she was successful for the most part. She didnt face plant but her footing was a bit off. That didnt matter however for she was simply happy that her face didnt get covered in snow for a third time.

The dark woman temporarily allowed herself a moment to feel good for doing it right before she went back into over thinking and being hard on herself for what she said. She was pleased to see that she managed to make him smile. Her silver tipped tail swayed as he butted his head against her shoulder after he said she'd be filling caches in no time. When he lifted his head she nudged his cheek with her nose. Guilt was clear in her mercury orbs. "I'm really sorry" was all she could manage before her eyes dropped to her paws and her posture dropped.

OOC! I was gonna reply last night after I replied to this one I just fell asleep early DX

Her eyes stayed down until she felt him nudge at her cheek. They closed as of to savor the touch and when he began to speak the silver orbs opened and looked at him. "You have nothing to be sorry for" he started before going on to say that he should know by now to not let little things get to him since he has very thick skin. A smirk broke through her sadness as she got that he was referring to his scars. Even in sadness this man could make her smile.

The red veteran went on to try to further lessen her guilt and while his efforts were galliant this would now be something she would be self conscious about. From now on she would watch her words to try and make sure that the memories weren't brought up. It didnt matter that she hadnt been trying to bring them up she still did and that wasn't something she was okay with. The warmth of his body pressed against hers did make her feel a bit better and allowed her to relax. His lick to her cheek was returned with one to his own as she pressed back into him. "I know that you don't see it as my fault but I do...and I want you to know I'm going to do my best to not trigger those memories for you. I'm not here to bring up the past or hurt you....." Her words trailed off not sure of how to proceed. So she just left it there to hang in the wind and allow Tagg to do with it as he pleased.