[ She sees it: the wolf sitting on the rooftop up ahead, white fur gleaming silver in the moonlight. Ciri blinks, startled. She stops -- not suddenly, not frightened, merely cautious. Slowing down first, pausing in her steps.
She balances on the outer eave of the neighboring building, ready to jump down if needed, but she doesn't reach for the knife at her belt yet (the only weapon she has for now). It's strange, an animal like this so far into the city, not a copse of trees in sight. Strange for it to sit and watch, rather than running away at the sight of her or advancing to scare her away. Those eyes, even at a distance, seem so... steady. Intelligent.
Tracking her movements.
White Wolf, she thinks, almost amused. It isn't Geralt. But the association is, naturally, there.
Ciri steps forward again. Her instinct says it may be some sort of werewolf or shifter. But maybe she's wrong. New world, after all. New city full of strange people. Maybe it's just a domesticated animal used to humans, belonging to someone nearby, climbed up some stairs that she can't see yet or something. It's certainly not a wild wolf, that she's sure of. ]
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She balances on the outer eave of the neighboring building, ready to jump down if needed, but she doesn't reach for the knife at her belt yet (the only weapon she has for now). It's strange, an animal like this so far into the city, not a copse of trees in sight. Strange for it to sit and watch, rather than running away at the sight of her or advancing to scare her away. Those eyes, even at a distance, seem so... steady. Intelligent.
Tracking her movements.
White Wolf, she thinks, almost amused. It isn't Geralt. But the association is, naturally, there.
Ciri steps forward again. Her instinct says it may be some sort of werewolf or shifter. But maybe she's wrong. New world, after all. New city full of strange people. Maybe it's just a domesticated animal used to humans, belonging to someone nearby, climbed up some stairs that she can't see yet or something. It's certainly not a wild wolf, that she's sure of. ]
Hello, there.
Wonder how you got all the way up here?