She is more than a little pleased when his opalescent eyes crack open and find her own, her playful smile widening even further as he growled back at her, playfully but still menacingly enough to be convincing if she didn’t know him so well. “No I don’t know,” she teased back as she watched him gather his sizeable frame, “but it’ll be worth it to find out!” The last words ended in a shout as he was suddenly up and barreling towards her, rumbling and barking just like a bear might. Her slender legs churned as she turned smoothly, all her expertise as Spirane’s Courser having made her quick and light as a feather. In a blink they were out in the clearing before their den, the golden sunlight washing over them as he pawed at her playfully. In retaliation she bit back at his paws, moving in to strike quickly before dancing away again.

They were such an intriguing pair, he so large and bulky while she was slender and sleek, to anyone watching their playfully dance must have looked increasingly comical. Especially as her Moon reared up on his hind legs, standing at an impressive height and roaring his challenge for what seemed like the whole mountain to hear. As he came back to the ground she laughed, a light tinkling sound, and danced around him. “Tis I, the bravest little fox,” she said, eyeing him as she lowered her chest to the ground once more and waving her bushy tail in the air, “And if you want to eat me you’ll have to catch me first!”

Like lightning she ran right at him, getting close enough to brush her brilliant golden fur against the platinum gray of his own before continuing on and past him. He would give chase, this she didn’t doubt, for she knew him as well as she knew herself, their souls intertwined and singing together. It was like the day they had first met, flying across the rocks trails and between the trees. She darted like prey before him, happy to let him give chase and going just fast enough to keep ahead of him. Her agile form flowed over the landscape like water, like she had been born for this place as she leapt from rock to rock. Occasionally her sea-green eyes would turn back to watch her love moving behind her, power and strength incarnate before giving a light laugh and teasing wink and pushing forward once more.