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Now that she can really get a good look at the stranger, Ylva is sure that the new area has had the same effect it had on her. Her own curiosity piqued, she takes the first few steps into the new land, half-expecting it to shift under her paws and reveal it was nothing but an illusion all along. It doesn’t, though, and the new grass tickles the fur on her legs and her paw pads.

It’s enough to make her stop, again, brows furrowing in complete confusion, for just a second. The stranger speaks up, and she blinks up at him, trying to shake the disappointment at the confirmation that he didn’t know what was going on, either. She’s not even sure how he would. As far as Ylva is concerned, nothing she’s seen could ever explain this. Nothing short of a greater being, anyways, and the thought makes her almost uneasy when it would have brought comfort before.

No. She confirms, with another scan of the area as if that will reveal any clues either of them have somehow missed. There’s nothing; just grass and blooming flowers and that still-lingering birdsong. It feels too good to be true. I wish I did, though.

Raelan