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Awkward indeed! ;D ...and she has been accepted already, just waiting on the DdM icon. 
Coli flinched at the unfamiliar voice, springing to her feet in a flurry of snow. Embarrassed at being caught on her knees, the socially inept girl brushed the frost from her warm brown fur, averting her startled blue eyes.
"...M-Mew...", she breathed, glancing shyly up to meet the white lady's emerald eyes. The white fur reminded her of Cercelee, but she didn't carry that scent. This stranger of a higher rank had the scent of a male about her, presumably her mate. Feeling inadequate in the presence of someone who had found love, she whispered the expected response. "...I am Colibri Haki, n-newcomer to the lands of Dahlia... I... go by 'Coli', usually..." She remembered in a flash how Firefly had been immediately hostile upon seeing her cowardice, and she tried to stand up a little straighter, try not to nervously adjust her long silken hair. She knew she wasn't much to look at - not particularly tall or short, not beautiful in her eyes; just a lowly member of the pack who happened to look like a clone of her father.
Already her daydreaming mind had wandered from the uncomfortable confrontation - she thought of how appropriate it was that she had joined a pack named for a flower, considering her love of all things that sprung from the soil. Dahlias weren't poisonous, though... Were they? She would need to research those blooms during the summer, if she got a chance. The plants that could kill her were always her favourites...
Oh! If this lady really was a higher-up, as her dominant pose suggested, wouldn't she have news of the pups? She shifted her weight from footpaw to footpaw, her long tail curling shyly about her midsection. How much courage did it require to ask a simple question? Coli really needed to get used to speaking to others. Mew had not threatened her, not yet, and if she had no reason to hate her, maybe she had news...? "You, do you, ah, know... F-firefly's pups, how are they?" Coli was eager to know, but not so eager as to swing by the dreaded cabin herself. Let Svara brave out the violent couple; Coli could wait outside.
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