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Sophie felt her cheeks warm as he quickly back-tracked, and wondered if perhaps her objection had been said too fervently. She didn't want to alienate the stranger, as he was very much their only hope of getting back, but she didn't want to admit they'd been doing something as silly as hunting for elves, and though she was very much aware that anything brought in by little pint-sized canines like her would, at most, feed herself. Still, she hoped he wasn't too angry with her for being rude. Boothe, of course, didn't care; he kept his head turned away, stubbornly ignoring everything the male said. Sophie glanced at him and frowned darkly, wishing she could convince him to be more polite, but since leaving their father Boothe had determined that any rules the man had set down were made to be broken.
The stranger began sniffing around their little patch of sunlight, but it appeared he couldn't find anything, or at least he didn't immediately set off in whatever direction they'd come from. Sophie whined, her voice worried and only just slightly frightened, but the male didn't seem discouraged. At his question, Sophie looked to Boothe, and he glanced at her before sticking his nose higher in the air. "There was a road," He mumbled, and Sophie brightened, nodding. "Oh, right! There was the road...sort of a trail, with dirt. It was pretty overgrown," She added thoughtfully, and glanced back behind them, thinking they'd perhaps come from that direction. There was no trail though, leading them that way, so she shook herself and blinked hazily at their companion, her ears pinned sadly. "I, um, don't know which direction to go in, though." She scratched herself uneasily, and stared with wide blue eyes at the stranger, hoping he could point them in the right direction.
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