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Takoda wandered along, enjoying the fine warm sunshine, every now and then she's do a little hop, skip and a jump and fly a few metres, stretching her wings, content to be travelling on such a beautiful day. she decided to lay down in a lovely warm patch of soft springy moss, lying down it wasnt long before the lull of the weather sent her to sleep.

Takoda woke suddenly, in the time she has been asleep it had clouded over swiftly, a storm had crept up on her fast, she tried to backtrack to where she had last seen some decent shelter, but in the gloom and the eye burning lashes of Lightning she couldn't see where she was going, Just when she had thought she has spotted something it started pouring down, eventually she reached some sort of thicket Maybe the trees will give me some shelter she thought and went over. She stood under the sparse branches of the biggest tree she could find and shivered, she was dripping wet and starting to shiver from the cold, surely nothing could get much worse, that was when she spotted a shadow in the trees, someone or something was moving out there, no use moving she thought there's nowhere to go in this storm anyway

Takoda almsot jumped out of her skin when the creature spoke, not having seen this kind of Soquili before, his voice was smooth and confident and he felt silly for being afraid of him, even for a second, "Looking for?" she questioned and was about to ask more when he mentioned shelter "haha, yes i agree, these trees aren't very good shelter" she managed to chuckle a little too. She shivered again, and sneezed while she waited for him to lead the way, "i'm Takoda by the way, what sort of Soquili are you? i've not seen your kind before" she said eyeing his magnificent antlers, that seemed to glow everytime the lightning flashed, she couldnt see his pelt very well in the gloom though.

Takoda followed slowly behind the strange Soquili, stumbling here and there on some exposed tree roots and rocks, "stupid weather, making me clumsy" she mumbled to herself, watching her feet carefully now, keeping her eye on his heels. "that's unusual, i never net a Soquili that had such feelings, such senses before. You must be very close to nature" she said matter of factly, concentrating again on not tripping up.
"A Cerynei you say, yes i think i've heard mention of your kind, but never actually met one, so you're the first" she said cheerily, trying to keep the mood up, despite the miserable weather. "So where exactly are we going? and What's your name?" she asked content to trust him for the time being, but curisous about him, there was something about him that made her feel comfortable to be near him, not that she was shy around new Soquili though.

Takoda shivered again, "wow your mother must have been very clever" she said, "i can tell the weather only when it begins to change, i cant predict anything though, except getting wet, haha" she chuckled, just as she tripped on a log, scraping her ankle as well as twisting it, "ouch!" she yelped, but carried on limping behind the Cerynei, she spotted a larger darkness in the gloom and a flash of lightning illuminated the cave mouth, limping fast past the Cerynei she got into the cave as fast as she could, "are you coming?" she joked before standing away from the entrance and out of the rain, holding her injured leg up off the cold cave floor.

Takoda flinched as the Cerynei lit a fire, with her eyes wide she gasped "how did you do that?! i didnt think Soquili could light fires, i thought that was a human thing" she said, even more in awe of this big male. Now the fire was lit she could see his pelt more clearly, he was rather handsome, in a mysterious kind of way, smiling weakly at him as he looked at her ankle she said "so what's your name? you never told me before" before he said he would go back out and fetch something for her bad ankle "oh no, please dont go back out there for the simple fact i was clumsy, wait until the rain stops at least" she said quickly, not wanting another Soquili to suffer anything on account of her

Takoda sighed a little, "Well Hello Cael" she said, before she looked at him in complete shock eyes wide, jaw hanging slightly open "wow, that was one good human" she said to his retreating back as he walked out of the cave. While he was gone she moved closer to the fire, drawing the warmth into her cold aching bones, she started to doze off, bathed in the conforting glow.
She started awake as he walked back in, offering her some bark and explaining what it was for, she took it and chewed, "eww, not very nice, and hard to chew" she mumbled around the mouthful. She lifted her leg slightly as he applied some of the other stuff mushed up on it, wincing as it stung, laying down near the flames, on a snady bit of the floor of the cave she tried to get rid of the cold chill that seemed to have settled into her bones "thank you Cael" she mumbled, still chewing the bark.

Takoda smiled in relief, spitting the bark out as it was getting very soft, she dug a small hole in the sandy floor and buried the bark. Sighing as she felt the wind drop as Cael blocked the entrance slightly "there IS need to thank you, without your help i'd not have shelter right now, and i wouldnt have a warm place to rest the storm out, so i WILL thank you" she said, slightly offended he had turned down her thanks. She gazed at his pelt for a while, watching how the markings seems to move around in the flickering light. listening intently to him talk about his human mother, "well I think she was a good human, after all, if she was as old as you suggest, she didnt have to take care of you, i'm glad she did, if it wasnt for her i wouldnt have met you" she said, taking note that he seemed saddened a little so she refrained from asking him anymore about her, instead she yawned and lay her head on the ground, watching Cael as she drifted off to sleep.

Takoda woke, she shivered a little since the fire had all but gone out, getting ti her feet, wincing a little as she put her weight on her injured leg, forgetting for an instant. Looking about she saw no sign of Cael, stretching she decided to go outside the cave, blinking as the sunlight hit her eyes, yawning widely she muttered to herself "what a fine day, everything smells much nicer after a storm"
Sniffing about she searched for some grass to nibble, the floor of the trees ridden place full of leaves, reaching a rather small clearing she sighed in pleasure, not only was there rich green grass, there was lovely warming sunlight pouring through the gap in the trees. kneeling down in the sun she grazed a little, but mostly enjoying the sun on her back.