She'd felt this feeling twice before in her life, Nauja knew what it meant. The feeling of frustration, a heat that covered everything part of her body. Then there was the itch that was fit to drive her mad and nothing helped to calm it even just a little. She'd started to feel the effects of the breeding season just before her visit to Grizzly Hollow, seeing pip and Tyne had kept her distracted. Her journey back to the thicket, she’d been alone and her mind focused more on it but she couldn't stop to rid herself of the itch. She wanted to get back to Vasu, make sure he was still there waiting to give her an update on the security of the place they had chosen.
The journey to the thicket had not been a long one which surprised her and even more that she'd found her way back. Entering she was on alert for any sign of her traveling companion and when she didn't find anything Nauja became worried. Trying not to panic that he might have left her she told herself he that he must be hunting so she put her muzzle into the air and issued a call to him to let him know she'd returned. Then she waited anxiously for his appearance and in the meantime decided to rub herself against some nearby branches to try and rid herself of the itch she knew she couldn't.