4/25/2025, 11:07 PM
cloud lash watched the woman closely, patient as the tide, though confusion flickered across her features when words did not come easily between them. she saw the hesitation, the searching look in her eyes, and for a moment she simply smiled, soft and encouraging.
she tried to form what little common tongue she had grasped from passing traders, her voice a shy murmur:
then she tapped her chest gently with a paw, holding herself steady against the tremble of excitement and nerves.
when the girl echoed the gesture, paw to chest, cloud lash's tail gave a small, hopeful wag. yes. she understood enough. so cloud lash nodded eagerly, her red eyes bright, urging her with a tilt of her head to share—to tell her, in whatever way she could, where she had come from.
she tried to form what little common tongue she had grasped from passing traders, her voice a shy murmur:
h-home...?the word wobbled from her lips, uncertain but earnest.
then she tapped her chest gently with a paw, holding herself steady against the tremble of excitement and nerves.
nuvts’eyaȟa’,she said proudly, a name that meant little in common speech but everything to her in the old ways.
when the girl echoed the gesture, paw to chest, cloud lash's tail gave a small, hopeful wag. yes. she understood enough. so cloud lash nodded eagerly, her red eyes bright, urging her with a tilt of her head to share—to tell her, in whatever way she could, where she had come from.