[Derpple and Ashie]

Walking alongside his mate brought a certain sense of peace to the tom's mind as he moved through the pine forest, his breath cold and visible in the air before him. "It's nothing too bad," he meowed, shaking one paw as if to further show that. "It's the cold more than anything that bothers me, but walking keeps these broken paws of mine warm more than sitting around in a stone den." Hazel eyes roamed over her fur more than the area around them, memorizing every stripe in her pelt as if he hadn't already. "Don't worry."