Falls

“Reign?” She repeated just to make sure she had heard him right, but she was already looking excitedly away from him and off at the rest of the clearing before them. Her dark tail gave a few quick swishes off her narrow hindquarters, and she seemed to not settle on studying any one thing for too long. Her dark pupils jumped on one bit of the surrounding area to the next as her new counterpart – Reign – told her this wasn’t his first time here and asked what she thought of it.

She gasped and whipped her narrow face toward him with surprised, excited eyes. “This isn’t your first time being here?! How many times have you been here? Have you been everywhere on Crossing?” Again, she asked her questions far too fast, too loud, and only just barely managed to stand quiet long enough to give him the time to process and answer her.

“It’s so cool!” She concluded as she looked around again. “Well, it’s different than home, y’know? That makes it cool. I’ve been sooo bored of home.” She added a heavy sigh and a roll of her eyes to further emphasize her prior boredom. “I live on Tinuvel in the Bay,” she explained as an aside, “and we have waterfalls and meadows and all of this stuff, but this is different!” The trees, the plants, the smells… everything was new! Parisa’s narrow legs shifted a little, moving her weight from one side to the other, finding it was difficult to stand still.