Aelin

Noises captured her attention, she turns her head towards them. Curiously she begins to pick her way through the greenery, eyes scanning her surroundings for however had been playing near by. It had fallen rather quiet now, a bird song picked up in the distance. Finally she says a figure through the bushes, and takes a step back, body tensing as she fears she might snap a twig. No, all remains silent on her side. As he makes his way over to the brook she wrestles with the uncertainty rising in her chest, thinking that she should leave him be. Just because she wanted to speak with him, make sure he was okay, didn't mean that that he would have any interest in speaking with her. She watches as he begins to drink then adverts her eyes to the canopy looking for an escape. If his father had beaten her to a pulp (even if she had been doing a questionable activity) she certainly wouldn't have any interest in seeing his child. Feeling rather depressed that she'd probably lost his friendship, surprising how others could quickly become important to you, she wanted nothing more than to escape before she was discovered.

The eagerness to escape grows when she noticed that he's finished drinking and has began moving closer to her hidden spot. Had he spotted her? This wasn't good. Ever so carefully she takes a few steps back painfully aware of how harsh he breathing had become. As he rockets his body into the space between the trees she uses the sounds to back further into the shrubbery until she felt that he wouldn't see her escaping. Aside from the off twig snapping under her hooves and leaves rustling against her body, she pretty quiet.

As he's speaking to a companion that had bonded out from between the trees she pauses long enough to smile. Yeah, he seemed to be doing well. Then again each time they'd met he'd been practically dead on the ground so to see him running around now...it was like he was a completely different soul. Turning to spare him the sight of her she makes her way through the shrubby. Turning her eyes to the sky she finally spies a gap large enough for her to escape through...but of course it's not a smooth or elegant retreat. Tripping over a log that she hadn't noticed (so that's why her mother told her to look where she was going), she landed on her chest with a fairly loud "Ooof!" The silence erupted with things snapping, leaves rustling, birds laughing at her ass and the log creaking. Groaning as embarrassment flooded through her veins she struggled to her hooves and inspected the damage. It was minimal, she's grazed her chest and the inside of her front legs. Obviously she'd fallen. Like an idiot. "Anha'm going tat athdrivar." Of shame not from the wounds of course. Sighing she shook her head and then turned to see if she'd been discovered.