Oceane had been hiding away in the murky muddy bank watching the buck as he set to playing in the weeds. She knew what he was searching for but she still thought it was odd that anyone would want to wade in the muck to look for plants. The ones he was picking and eating weren't even pretty when it came down to it. She was having a hard time getting the mud off her paws as she tried to shift her weight again and keep the mucky waters from seeping over her paws. She sighed and growled as she flicked her paws harder, finally giving up and sulking as she returned to spying.
Only unlucky for her the deer had heard the growl from her and had leaped across the river to the other bank. Though the river wasn't wide it was deep. The little girl scurried out from her hiding place and barked in anger at the fleeing deer. She shook her head as she stomped on paw and yapped at the deer, wishing that the stupid thing hadn't been so attentive while she'd been busy grumbling away about her dirty little paws.
Huffing to herself she started to dip her pretty little feet in the waters at the edge of the river, hoping to rid herself of the nasty black mud before she had to lick it off.
She had not realized how thick and clingy the muck had been when she'd perched behind the tree to spy on the buck. She was not happy as she began to discover just how strong the mud clung to her paws as she dabbed at the water harder and harder, speckling her pelt with splatters from the river as she lost her temper. Huffing to herself she squealed her annoyance at the muck and made a face as she realized just what she was going to have to do. She was not amused now at the spy game she had been playing, infact she didn't think she ever wanted to go spying on another anytime soon.
Lifting her paw close to her face she made a grimace as she was about to lick the muck from her toes as suddenly a voice called through the air. Relieved that she didn't have to start the horrible process of grooming out the muck between her toes she instantly set her paw back down and glanced around, finally catching sight of the other as she frowned. "I don't wanna lick it off either.." she whined to the stranger, at the point of believing that there was no other way of getting the nasty substance from her pelt.
Oceane didn't exactly know what to think about the proposal that the strange lady was offering her but the idea was tempting none the less. She had begun to move across the waters as Oceane cast envious looks her way. She wanted to look that graceful and elegant when she was in water, instead she just always looked like a fish thrashing around on the end of a line. She had already made her decision by the time the other woman had joined her at the far bank.
She looked up to the long legged lady with the large ears as she stated shyly. "I wanna be able to swim like you can.." She didn't know much about swimming but she was determined to a tleast be able to paddle through water one day. The packlands were filled with swamps and rivers and she didn't want to feel like she was trapped every time she came to water. She wanted to be free!