She'd been traveling for hours, and looked like it. A light fog swirled around her moist paws as a light shower trickled the length of her dark back to make her look even the more feral and hungrier then she felt, and she continued on despite the stench of a pack upwind. She was far from home, perhaps days at best, but her voyage back to @Lachesis would prove to be more difficult then she'd anticipated--she had no idea where the pack had relocated to since the departure of Cedarwood Forest those many months ago. Her posture remained neutral as long skinny limbs scaled the lower end of Riddle Heights, her breaths were deep and out of tune as she struggled to collect herself--never before had she traveled a mountain, and this would probably not be the last.
She paused every so often at the sound of a squawking bird or the distance sound of rocks rolling down the side of the mountain ridge were the distance of a few meters separated her from certain injury. She was aware that the wrong step could send her tumbling downward but she continued forward with hopes of spotting life, for miles she had been the only creature stirring besides the swooping birds and she needed directions back toward the West---back home. A deep inhale of breath and she paused where the land was level enough to settle onto her haunches and without thinking the black beauty began to groom herself, much like a cat, to rid her paws of the dirt that had quickly collected around her ankles before rubbing her face dry of debris and the apparent look of travel. Silence had become her friend this high up therefore she allowed her guard to wane, all the while the swirl of thick fog seemed to grow steadily around her.
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