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Yumiko was far more tired that she had realised, for as soon as she had fallen asleep not even the strange smells of strangers so close to her awoke her. She only moved once, to flop into a more comftorable sleeping postion on her side with her legs sprawled everywhere. Despite their shortness, they certainly took up a fair chunk of the room, especially with the others napping so tightly curled up. They were certainly conservative with their space, as if they were used to sleeping in tiny spaces.
A horrific shriek was what finally tore her from her dreamless sleep. As she struggled to tear herself from the tight grasp the night always held over her, her muddled mind heard the scream echoing thousands of times over, screwing with her sense of space and time. She finally was awake enough to register what her open eyes saw, from their strange angle with one plastered upon the ground and the other facing the ceiling, in time to see a wolf she couldn't place shift far more quickly than was safe.
It clicked into place just as another cry wrenched through the night and stabbed Yumiko's sensitive heart with sympathy. They were her roomates. Her friends. Just children, really, even though they were so close in age to herself. That, and Leah was clearly frightened out of her mind because she barely even recognized the wolf she had been travelling with for who knows how long. Her hands were covered in rivers of blood, barely visible in the low light of the moon that barely shone through the tiny entrance. The blonde wolf's heart ripped even further, stabbed by blades of sympathetic pain that her considerate soul created. She couldn't bare to see such suffering. That was why she became a healer in the first place.
As Anne comforted Leah the fog that was always in place after Yumiko awoke disappeared completely, and she closed her eyes and shifted silently while they took comfort in each other's existance. Her bones made no soudn as they lengthened and readjusted, and she opened her lids to peer out at a higher vantage point, unaware of when she had sat up during the shift. She spoke softly, knowing that no matter how hard she tried she would undoubtedly frighten the two wolves that were so vulnerable at the moment. Leah especially. "Guys.... I... She paused, uncertain what to say. Who was she to comfort either of them? She barely even knew them yet, regardless of how well they had been getting along.
She decided to stop attempting to speak, and instead her focus went to the wounds that Leah had inflicted upon herself in her nightmare-ridden fright. She could only hope that the other blonde wolf trusted her enough to tell her what was going on. She wasn't one to pry. Instead, she shifted onto her knees and reached up to the lowest shelf, groping in the near dark while her eyes continued to adjust. She found the rocks she was seraching for, knowing their familiar touch, and brought them to the hearth. She built a quick fire pyramid (kindling at the bottom, steadily getting larger to the outside) from her small stash leftover from winter, and hurriedly knocked the stones together. The flint sparked on the first hit, and she managed to catch some kindling on fire, blowing on the precious light. It grew until the entire fire was lit, large enough to shed a flickering glow on the entire scene and warm up the cave in the cold night that was kept at bay only by thick walls and a small entrance.
The smoke drifted to the ceiling, until Yumiko hurriedly remembered to shift the skin she had covering the chimney hole and it made it's twirly way out that way. She dropped back to her knees, and looked at Leah with concern. "You can talk to me, you know, but I won't push you." She gestured with concern at the girl's bloodied paws. "Please, let me take a look at that, though. I'm a healer." She left out that, in their tribe, she technically was only at the lowest of the healer's positions. She did have more experience then the title gave her credit for, though.
"Talk." Walk. Think.
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Oops I forgot it was cold and snowy when we started this lol *has edited the fire
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