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The dark-furred hippy child found herself stranded under a roiling grey cloud etched with black shadow, and she could do little more than respond to it with the tight tipping of her ears back to her skull. In the middle of Occasus Promontorium there was little shelter to be had for the puppy, and immediately this fact registered in her mind with alarming urgency. Her eyes could only begin to evince the sudden panic that welled in her chest and faded quickly afterward. An inexplicable attack, one of several that sometimes overcame the youth; but a glance to the sky brought her back to the cause.
It was a little-known fact, in this region, China Rose's absolute fear of thunderstorms. Not that it made any sense even to her. Mother Nature did not throw storms at them to punish them; she was merely temperamental on those days, or so those of Juniper Peace liked to believe. Unfortunately, China didn't buy that simply write-off of thunderstorms. There was just something about lightning forking through the air that was dangerous, something about the terrible boom of thunder that scared her heart into utter submission. She backed away from the rock she had previously been standing near before turning and all-out running. The rain that fell hadn't escalated to that point yet (who knew yet whether it would or not), but the Lykoi knew the signs.
Dark clouds meant storms.
She didn't slow when she reached one of the tell-tale entrances to the network of dens and caverns known only as The Caves to Inferni residents. She herself had no name for the dank place she dove into; she didn't much care, she decided. It was shelter that would protect her from the turbulent skies and that was all she could possibly ask for. Huddling in the darkness of the cave she had found, the girl edged forward slowly and cautiously until she came upon a point where the tunnels forked, and she selected the left passage. And when she came once more to an opening, China Rose became intrigued.
Not because the tunnel had opened once more to the air, but because directly beyond that entrance-way stood a member, or presumably a member for she had managed to get that far into the territory. Strapped to the russet-and-brown animal's back was a pack which the hippy child assumed was filled with personal belongings scavenged and received as gifts. From her low position, the red-masked hybrid could not make out Haruhi's keen eye colour, but she was more or less dismissive of that anyway. What made her so curious was the way the other strolled so pleasantly and without a care in the world through the drizzle. Didn't she know the danger of a coming storm?
China's voice rose above the slightest wind as she called out to the female, hoping to spark a bit of common sense into the other:
Hello? You need to come inside!
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