02-05-2023, 07:01 AM
On the way out of the mountains, Jacqueline and her newest companion had mild success in feeding themselves. She was still uncertain if she trusted Lincoln to really endure through thick and thin with her, but the chaotic extrovert within her was dying to claw its way out, so she was opening up fast.
They’d picked the small carcass clean, but the thought of it was still rattling around in her brain. “I feel like,” she began, veering gradually over so that they might follow the river’s shoreline further into the valley, “Bones are good, right? They stick around for a long time, they’re tasty, and they’ll keep you from starving.” Her eyes sparkled as she glanced back at Lincoln. “So you’ve probably heard of debts. Life debts, favor for a favor, and what have you. But what if we set up a system where other wolves do things for us, and we give them bones instead of having to do something back?”
Her ears cupped forward in the middle of her rambling. Up ahead was a dark silhouette headed straight toward the river—attempting to ford it, maybe?
She did not bark, nor call out about it, but her silence and intense gaze would be enough to cue in Lincoln that she’d found something interesting.
They’d picked the small carcass clean, but the thought of it was still rattling around in her brain. “I feel like,” she began, veering gradually over so that they might follow the river’s shoreline further into the valley, “Bones are good, right? They stick around for a long time, they’re tasty, and they’ll keep you from starving.” Her eyes sparkled as she glanced back at Lincoln. “So you’ve probably heard of debts. Life debts, favor for a favor, and what have you. But what if we set up a system where other wolves do things for us, and we give them bones instead of having to do something back?”
Her ears cupped forward in the middle of her rambling. Up ahead was a dark silhouette headed straight toward the river—attempting to ford it, maybe?
She did not bark, nor call out about it, but her silence and intense gaze would be enough to cue in Lincoln that she’d found something interesting.