OPEN I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

[Grateful Mae]

Mae had been sitting off in a ticket when the hum of voices cut through the ringing din that usually plagued her ears. She couldn't make out what was being said, but through her cloudy sight, Mae could see a few figures walking and something exchanging hands. Truthfully, Mae had procrastinated on meeting the locals. She didn't like the questions... Where did you come from? Why do you talk like that? What happened to you? Are your parents alive?
Questions were for people who weren't smart enough to mind their own business.
Rising to her paws, Mae shook out the snow and the junk collecting on her fur from sitting in one place for so long. The juvenile fox slipped out between the branches, leaving tufts of fur behind, and arched her back in a big stretch. The buzz of her month wings against each other announced her arrival before she had ever spoken.
Mae couldn't make out faces until she had fallen into step with everyone, but she recognized no one in particular. Maybe she had seen that canine, but not the feline that had taken the load off the cabbit's shoulders before, but she really couldn't be certain. Voices and faces weren't her strong point; she had missed most of the conversation anyway. Why was she even here? It's not like anything else interesting ever happened around here.
Letting out a huffing breath of air in front of her nose to create a cloud of breath in the air, Mae watched it dissipate. "The dew point is high today," Mae commented, clearing her throat, and her gaze swung back to the small group, her expression unchanged. "Which means it will probably get cold tonight. Maybe windy. Probably should dry off and get inside, smaller creatures are more susceptible to hypothermia."

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