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The scent of something absolutely terrible -- contrastingly -- pulled Eloise closer to it. It was water by the smell and sounds of it and the crashings against rock had the Wren's ears dancing upon her crown like satellites, picking up every splashing nosie and making her all the more curious.

El had never once seen the sea before and that much could be told by the way her nose wiggled about in search for these mysterious waters. She was a woodland princess, afterall; cooped up in the comfortable jail bubble that was her homeland and pack for all her puppy life. Never once has she'd gotten to experience traveler's bliss or sights and terrain other than soil, pinecone and the ten-thousandth deciduous tree that she passed.

Though lost, confused and slightly lonely without the guidance of her parents, freedom was freedom. Now Eloise had the luxury of living the dream her eldest brother had always gotten to live while she suffered the weight of following a queen's footsteps.

and what an ever curious sight in her adventures: an elk herd.

The young Wren had never seen a herd so upclose and personal before -- what huge beast they were. Grazing and bidding nearly no mind to her own being. Other than a particular tall one that eyed the young dame with caution as she waltzed by, perhaps the herds leader. The Eloise grew intimidated by this eye contact, and in turn lowered her posture and flattened her ears with a sheepish smile towards it as she made it her mission to slink away as quickly as possible. It's okay Mr. Elk man, I'm no harm to you. Pleasedonttrampleme...

What she'd come across next, just further downhill, was a sight she stood to grow absolutely mesmerized by. Within the floors of the earth lied an imperfection -- a glorious one. Tides crashing between the cracks of a cliff, eroded by time with water. Ellie's nose crinkled in a similar mannerism to before -- the water still stunk. But her dark paws couldn't tear away from the sight that reflected from her bright olive visionaries.

The boy, she'd notice as well, though being too enraptured in the sight of one of nature's many mysterious beauties, El did not greet him with the simple hello she had planned. Instead she would walk slowly towards the edge, and settle her feet beside the boy till they stood next to each other. Still engrossed by the enchanting sight, and wishing to share that moment with a newfound stranger...

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Maybe it was the sight of someone around her age that excited the young wern and made her eagar to greet them, but she supposed it was rather creepy to straight up sit beside them without any context or so much as a "Hello" without warning. It was written all over his reaction -- the way the boy leaned away from the corner of her eye and visually checked her in distrust. Eloise supposed she should've expected such a reaction, and in turn the girl grew embarrassed. The dame wanted to strike up conversation surrounding this strange source of water, but it seemed more necessary to apologize first...

"Ahh..." El begun to speak, slowly turning around to face the man with a sheepish, apologetic grin -- but became....distracted by something else to have caught her attention; his eyes. A soft peach color -- one that reminded her of a muted marigold. A shade of color she had never seen in the optics of another and they were further complimented by the shades of his dark fur. This boy...

...he had...lovely eyes....

She had noticed it all -- the tired look on his face, his frown of displeasure, and the general picture of malnutrition that painted his thin frame, but it was the young boy's striking gaze that had Eloise staring the most....for a little too long, it looked like. Once El had became self aware of her leering, she'd blink, tilting her head to the side and opting to look towards the sky instead whilst twiddling her forepaws.

'What do you want?' He demanded to know.

"I.....wanna look at the.....lake?" she answered honestly, yet her wording was so akward her actions might as well have been suspicious. Suddenly, she would become defensive herself and huffed through her nose, pouting rather childishly and, if she had arms, she'd definitely be crossing them right now. Cheeto doesn't know how to write the "wolf" version of that, so instead we can just sit here and imagine it.

"Why? I can't look at the lake? You were looking at the lake too, weren't you?"

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She, too, was flustered & confused -- and in face of a direct question to further indulge her own actions, Eloise only became even more defensive. "Well-!" The bird snapped her head from the sky and back to him, hopping to her feet with a tail pointed upward and her feathers aptly ruffled. She was aimed and ready to defend herself in a situation that was most definitely her fault in which the other party had every right to be upset for -- yet El turned only to be distracted by his peach hued eyes. Again.

Even to be darkened within a glare, they still captivated the Wern -- locking her into a cage of her own creation. This time, El's body didn't only react by staring, but she could feel her heart start to thrum, her cheeks start to flush and her tail begin to wag like a dandelion swaying in the wind. A dandelion, which she would immediately tuck underneath her belly to stop its motions. After the short pause of yet another staredown, the young girl opened her mouth to speak again, yet this time, speech somehow felt harder to come by than it should've. El was stuttering.

"I-I-Is it a crime to want to sit next to someone and s-strike a conversation with them!?" Ellie blurted, mean mugging the monochrome boy with that same pouted lip, and drawing her face closer towards him to further instill the notion of 'I am glaring at you and therfore have the upper hand in this argument.'

This...proximity though....

El pulled her face away and tucked her chin into her plush chest, with a face that was even more flushed than before.

The semi-heated argument cooled though, and the expectation for him to talk back in retaliation ultimately died. He was apologizing? For what? Sure, Eloise was making it all the more difficult to straight up say it was her fault in the end, but she was still aware it was her fault. Had El ended up pressuring the boy into thinking the fault was actually his own, then?

Her pinched gaze softened in assumption of this, and she whined softly in response.

"No." The girl finally admitted.

"I guess it is rather peculiar to approach a complete stranger without announcing my presence, I can see why you'd be startled....you have no reason to apologize." and to add onto this, her head lowered to admit defeat and a paw placed shyly on her muzzle. This time she gazed upon him with a soft, apologetic smile. "It just isn't often that I come across other wolves that look my age. Perhaps that's why I became a little too excited to see the stranger that stood by the cliff. I'm sorry..."

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It looked like El's attempts at good terms was working well, and that the boy didn't seem nearly as bothered to see the dame as he did at first. Eloise slowly took a paw off her face to get a better look at him, and saw that he wasn't leaning drastically away as he was before to bring distance between them. It felt like the tension was finally beggining to draw away and Eloise took it as a sign to calm down herself with a slowing, steadying rise and fall of her breastbone.

'No one's ever been excited to see me' -- the girl tilted her brunette crown at these words and frowned in confusion. El wasn't sure at how to respond to such a bold statement -- surely, the shadow cloak had freinds or family of his own that would've been excited to see him on any given day. Everyone did, afterall; though El lacked freinds, her family (ecspecially her brother) gave her the company she'd needed that would prevent her from thinking such a thing.

And what a terrible thing to say, too....

The wren assumed that she had just been revealed something that she shouldn't have been revealed. To further elaborate on the fact that she really didn't know anything about the stranger infront of her. 'What was going on in his home?' El thought to herself worriedly -- because surely, this boy didn't look old enough to be without family already....was he lost? Was that why he looked so skinny?

He spoke again, and Ellie's ears pricked at the sound of something unfamiliar -- new -- reaching her ears. Aldritch....

"Oh! -- Aldritch -- is that your name?" The young Wren asked. Practically blurting the question out in excitement to have been given an introduction. In return she'd settle on her haunches again to address him with rounded, inquisitive eyes and a warmed smile. All the while her tail beat against the earth.

"My name is Eloise. Eloise Firwood"

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Unbeknownst to the greycloud lad named Aldritch, Eloise probably wasn't going to loose intrest in this interaction anytime soon. In fact, she was too busy trying to seek the very gaze that had caused butterflies to form within her chest to even think about leaving. The boy had a mysteriously regal air about him that tapped into Eloise's ever expanding curiosity, and a sharp, yet gentle colored gaze that would cause any girl that fell underneath it to begin fanning their face (in El's perspective). So, unfortunately for Ritch, Eloise was probably going to become a tick to his side until.....well, an 'until' was not something the Wren's now entrapped attention could even see right now.

Eloise was starting to develop an intrest for the cliff side boy who had peach eyes and smelled of elk fur -- one that she could only dumb down to finding a possible new friend, yet this intrest was noticeably a bit stronger than it should've been for something like that. She simply had the urge to be near him like some lost puppy, and did not question the urge further.

and follow him is exactly what she did; when he offered to show Eloise "something cool", her large eyes seemed to sparkle with intruge and her tail only moved more feverishly. Like a spring, the woodland girl hopped to her feet and silently snaked towards the boy's flank without as much as a peep from her lips. A talkative bird the Wern was, but to ruin whatever suprise Aldritch had in store for her was not Eloise's goal.

What was he gonna show her? Should...should she be closing her eyes right now or something!?

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