Noct’s golden eyes were set on the silvery form of the other girl. He still couldn’t shake the feeling that he knew her, it had been so long though and their bodies and everything about them had changed so much. It didn’t help that the lack of Spirane’s scent upon her pelt made it harder to pick out her individual sent from his memory. It was starting to come back to him though, slowly but surely, after all it had been one of the few times he had gotten out and actually had fun. She rolled about though, rolling herself and tilting her head back so that she might get a look at him. It was rather odd really, she must have felt very comfortable with the idea that Diveen wasn’t a hostile land if she was so relaxed pincered between to packs like this and rolling around so comfortably. Noctis knew that dangers were out there after all. Like one that had killed his older brother when he was a pup, like wolves out in the freelands that had tried to attack his eldest sister Never and his Mom. It wasn’t all sunshine and butterflies outside of Diveen’s walls… or even in them.

Still her reply to his words only further confused him, causing him to tilt his head slightly. So she wasn’t lost? He didn’t reply right away, instead continued to watch her as she rolled to her paws and shook her body out. Now that she wasn’t upside down or doing anything else strange it was coming back to him. Her markings, eye color, the realization was starting to hit him. She had changed… A lot. No longer the formless little girl he had met playing in the water, but a well built female. He shifted slightly, ashamed he perhaps hadn’t picked up on it sooner, as well as felt a little sheepish. He rarely was around other girls his age other than Luxa or other sorts of distant relatives because of Diveen so honestly he wasn’t sure how to act.

It was then that he started a little when she apparently also recognized him despite being big and pretty bulky now. ”Ahh… yeah...“ He replied just as much so giving a somewhat embarrassed grin at her, especially seeing how excited she had been at realizing it had been him. ”I remember you too, Remi.” He said not really sure what to say he added, though her energy was somewhat infectious his tail waving behind him though with a more reserved manner than her own, he was happy to see her, through all of him froze up all over again with her comment.

He didn’t want to read into it as much as was, but he had. He tried to remind himself that “looking good” was also a term of “you appear in good health” not necessarily that he was good looking. Though his mom said it all the time, he was a good looking male, there wasn’t exactly denying that. ”Um… Thanks. You look pretty good too.” He clamped his mouth shut just as fast as he had said it. She was pretty, but he did mean it more in the she looked lively and healthy and well, but it was pretty plain as day that he really wasn’t in his normal comfort zone. Why did it have to be a girl he found on his first patrol, let alone one he actually knew. He was sort of making a total idiot of himself, his mom would be shaming him into the dirt then washing him off and shaming him again. He wasn’t being very ‘gentlemanly” like he was supposed to be though.

Thankfully she very quickly seemed to change the conversation. ”Yeah, I do live here. I could take you I’m sure the uhh, King and Queen won’t mind.” He said smiling and regaining some composure remembering that he certainly did not mention that he was the prince of Diveen when they had first met. After all he was trying to get away from that stuffy feeling of being royalty for the day. What would she think now? Would she treat him as informally if she knew? He hoped not, he got enough of that just from all the wolves here that were formal. Mostly his mom, but his mom was a special case anyway.

”You aren’t far, which I guess you probably knew.” What a dumb thing to say… You could HEAR the waves crashing from here, smell the salt in the air. ”Come on, no one’s going to disturb us with me around. They erm… Trust my judgement you could say.” He was trying very hard to not sound like a prince. After all it was pretty refreshing to be treated this way by someone that wasn’t his sibling. He turned quickly loping lightly into the lands now but still riding along the borders. It wasn’t terribly far away when they came to the high cliffs, but there were ways down there. He saw the ocean every day, almost every day. It was something he never really considered special or worth visiting though. Saltwater made his fur feel funny, tasted nasty and then, the sand…. How it got EVERYWHERE. Oh no.. maybe he WAS like his mom. The thought almost made him shudder physically. It wasn’t bad, it was just a pain to clean up later. ”Was this why you were over there like this? You wanted to see the sea, Remi?” He asked her happy for the change of topic if nothing else, really he wasn’t sure what to do they were here. Did she want to go down and explore? Had she never seen or been to the the oceanside before?