Muddy River — [P] You've got a friend

Dos' twin tail wagged happily as she watched her friend - it was so great to not be filled with biting worry at all times for poor Elcid. She hadn't coughed once the entire time they'd been hanging out! She was practically wiggling out of her fur when Elcid praised her combat abilities - see, this was why the she-wolf was her best friend. Uno and her mom hadn't even tried to understand how cool it was that Dos had gone on an adventure and fought off a ferocious beast! They'd just fretted about her scrapes, thanked Mr. Gabriel for helping her and fussed and fussed until Dos begrudgingly agreed to finally lay down in her nest for the night. Sure it had been scary in the moment but the moment had passed! And Dos hadn't died! she didn't understand what the big fuss was about. "Yeah," she bragged. "It totally got me good but we got it gooder - goodest? We kicked its butt and it ran away!" The twin-tail glanced toward the other bank and was slightly disappointed to see that the water seemed to have washed away the large prints made in the mud - darn, now she couldn't show irrefutable proof to her friend of how awesome her fight had been. "Woah..." Dos breathed in awe, watching the battle play out in front of her. She didn't even care the beetle was the wrong color, the vixen was torn in so many directions of excitement: firstly, this fight Elcid was showing was wayyyy cooler than it had been in real life! Dos was a good story-teller, don't get her wrong but there had been a lot more tripping over mud, waiting awkwardly trying not to shock Mr. Gabriel and generally feeling kind of embarrassed that she hadn't yet unlocked her fox-fire. This fight made her look awesome, like a true fox-spirit, with skills more befitting of a five or a six tails rather than her own measly two. Secondly: Elcid was using ox-magic!! Or at least something similar - this was exactly the kind of illusions Dos was working on learning! It was possibly the greatest thing she'd ever discovered! Even cooler than her own fight! "That's so awesome 'cid!" Dos darted forward immediately, batting curiously at the illusion, utterly infatuated. "How did you do that? That's so epic! I've been trying to figure out how to make illusions too but I haven't really gotten it to make sense yet and yours looks so real and kinda mystical," the vixen babbled, circling the creation with her ears fully pricked. There was so much presence to the forms! This was an art! She made a mental note to convince Elcid to do her magic for her family - surely Uno and her mom would have to settle down about her if they knew Elcid could use fox-crafts, right? "Can you make sounds with it? I bet you can 'cause you're so awesome already I have the coolest best friend ever, you gotta teach me how to do the illusions I wanna surprise my mama with my skills but in a good-way not the awkward way I surprised her by showing her I found my fox-fire where I was all 'look mom!'" Dos' tails abruptly burst into golden flames. "And then she screamed but not the good scream-" --- Text. Speech. Thoughts.