Tal squinted, trying to decide if he'd seen her before. Maybe at a distance, from the back...? "I do," he sassed right back, wary expression melting into an annoyed scowl at her tone. "Strange ladies dropping rocks out on the Sea in the middle of the night is pretty suspicious, yeah?"
The fluffy, long-legged dogs came to a halt, panting joyfully at the run and looking Hotaru over with congenial tail wags - all except the dog on the lead left, whose attention was half on Tal.
Boreal continued her lazy circles, content to watch her human and keep an eye on the stranger from a safe distance up, though she began to widen her gyre as curiosity drew her eyes to the stones that had been placed in the snow.
The fluffy, long-legged dogs came to a halt, panting joyfully at the run and looking Hotaru over with congenial tail wags - all except the dog on the lead left, whose attention was half on Tal.
Boreal continued her lazy circles, content to watch her human and keep an eye on the stranger from a safe distance up, though she began to widen her gyre as curiosity drew her eyes to the stones that had been placed in the snow.
