The she wolf had not spoken during the bath. In fact it seemed as if she couldn't speak at all. Sher didn't mind much as she indeed was not an easily pleased creature and had lots of patience. The wolf sat on a cushion wagging it's tail at the game Sher had come up with to communicate with her. She had found the wolf something to wear and was looking for a pair of shoes that the wolf might like, when Dingodile wandered back in carrying a basket of Wumpa fruits. He hadn't paid much attention to the gray furred female on the cushion until he noticed Sher's fluffy tail swishing about, as she was leaning into a bin of shoes. He looked at the wolf and Sher finally pulled up a pair of tan colored hiking boots. The grin that crossed that muzzle was indescribable. He almost dropped the basket of fruit, but managed to set it down and nod to Sher, before turning to leave.
"Dingodile," Sher began, "sit down and eat with us." He turned to decline, but found that the wolf was standing up on it's own and not to sturdily either, she was wobbling back and forth as if she were about to fall. Sher had dropped the boots and was moving forwards to catch her, but Dingodile was a little quicker and closer. His arm shot out in front of the wolf and caught her, causing her to drop another way, as her knees weren't holding her up. His other arm went around her and he set her back to sitting on the cushion. Sher grabbed a Wumpa from the basket and offered it to the wolf, who sniffed it a moment trying to see what was in it. She blinked a moment before taking it from Sher's hand and sniffing it some more.
Dingodile and Sher blinked at the same time as the wolf looked at them and pushed it at Dingodile, who blinked again.
"Wha-? OW! Sher!" Sher had elbowed him.
"Eat it Dingodile." he took the fruit and put it in his mouth and ate it. When he had swallowed it the wolf grabbed one and ate it too.
"Dingodile! Sher! What have you done!" Cortex screamed after seeing his newest experiment eating from the basket of Wumpa fruit.
"I told Dingodile to bring fruit!"
"FATALE! STOP EATING THAT IMMEDIATELY!" the wolf looked at Cortex with a mouth full of Wumpa. She swallowed the fruit and growled at him. "Look what you've done! You've snatched my experiment from me!" he went on screaming about his precious experiment as N. Gin wandered his missile-headed self into the room.
"Doctor Cortex! Doctor Cortex!" Cortex paused in his ranting to look at N. Gin
"What is it N. Gin?"
"Sir, the Bandicoots! They're coming!"
"WHAT?!" Cortex ran from the room, with N. Gin following as quickly as he could. Dingodile looked at Fatale, who was utterly satisfied with a full belly.
"We gotta get her out of her Sher…"
"And this is the experiment Cortex was going to make a slobbering monster." Dingodile ignored her and picked up Fatale, who blinked at him confusedly. He carried her off as Sher wondered how Cortex was going to make a girl wolf into a slobbering monster. Dingodile heard Cortex's favorite new minion Stalker coming down the hall. He knew exactly what that meant and ducked into the secret passage as Stalker rounded the corner. He wove his way through the dark passages and set Fatale on her feet a few feet from a door.
"Do you know where N. Sanity beach is?"
A shaking of the wolven head told him that she didn't.
"Well, I would take you, but Cortex would kill me if I left with out his permission. Just run that way. He pointed through the woods towards N. Sanity beach."
Fatale blinked and grabbed his hand pulling on it to get him to come with her.
"I can't…" he said taking his hand away. "If Cortex sends me after you then I will come with you ok?"
A nod followed, before Fatale ran from the castle and disappeared into the trees. He made his way back before Cortex found out she was gone. No one knew except Dingodile, where Fatale went. Not even the Bandicoot who lived on the beach.
