Vesper allowed her eyelids to flutter shut as she relaxed, her dark-dappled chest rising and falling gently. She had traveled far the previous night, wandering around the neutral territories in a fruitless search, and only finding the cavern had brightened her spirits. Her legs were feeling the ache despite the help of canine endurance, and she stretched them out.
A new clan-member’s scent reached her when she inhaled, and while she momentarily opened her blue eyes, she decided shortly after that it wasn’t worth the trouble. If they wanted to bother her, they would do so, and relocating wasn’t going to change that.
“Boo!”
The coywolf sat bolt upright at the unexpectedly loud, close sound, already whirling around with her lips curled back and her ears lowered. She faced the troublemaker on hands and knees, her bad-tempered expression eased only by curiosity as she stared at the russet woman who now sat cross-legged, her expression almost shy.
The Vigiles could only shake her head once in disbelief. Such a greeting she might have expected from a pup, or a yearling from a more laidback pack, but not a woman her age—and not one who, moments after her outburst, spoke quietly. Was the introverted mumbling an act?
Vesper hardly had the time to say anything when the wiry woman noted the circling birds, and with a snort, the tawny female said, “I could name something more annoying than birds.” She offered the newcomer a pointed smirk then settled down on her paws, sitting kneeling before her.
“So you said your name was Omni?” the watchwoman asked. Her mind had been scrambled by the surprise, and it was all she could do to think backwards to what the stranger had said. That, and Omni herself provided a bit of a distraction; Ves couldn’t deny that she was an attractive specimen. She managed to smirk lightly and offer, “I’m Vesper—a Vigiles.”
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