"Really, can this get anymore disastrous?" Ash looked at her reflection in the water, grimacing as she tried to use her powers to get the mud out of her coat. "Maybe if I hadn't been doing what they told me NOT to be doing... then maybe..." She rolled her eyes, completely at ease with talking to herself. "Now when I get-" She dug her paws into the ground, and appeared to be pulling back from an invisible force that was tugging at the mud In her fur. "Home, Hazel will-" She sat down with her teeth bared, feeling the clumps of mud forcibly roll out of her coat, taking some of her beautiful plush, fur with it. "Kill me!"
Suddenly she flew backwards, head over tail, completely free of mud. Amazed that she was able to fix her mud problems herself, she leaped to her paws with an excited gleam in her eyes. "Yes!" She shook out her coat, sat down and began to groom herself back to perfection, not noticing the mass of mud that seemed to fly across the lake.
How she got into her curtain location due to being the stubborn and bratty she-wolf she was, had begun to dig for gems in a part of the Onatah cliffs that was off limits to her family's mining business. Of course, how she got muddy and sort of wet, was because she had tapped into an aquifer, the reason that area was off limits to mining for gems, and other worthless stuff... Ash thought as her mind was suddenly drawn to the war that was going on, and how her family were mining for gems, metals, and other valuable minerals that helped the her kind, the Dimitrois wage their war.
Too busy thinking of herself, her coat and and her dismay at having found no gems, Ash didn't hear the voices of several Non-Dimitrios wolves nearby...