Wolf RPG

Aura had been happy with the place she was able to call home. It was beautiful and quite homey even though she basically walked in on a couple fighting but what worried her more about it was it was the Alphas. Her mind was off today as she had racked her brain about the words they had exchanged. Though her mind was somewhere else she knew she needed to be tending to the pups and maybe even taking them out to explore the territory a bit with her there of course. 

Aura hopped up from the place she rested and stretched forward standing for just a moment before moving forward again. It had been a long night and a longer morning as she had slept in past her normal hours. The fiery woman first seeked out @Talos, the pup who seemed to be more adventurous or more of a magician more like, than the others. She checked behind trees and bushes on her way to the den just in case the pup was hiding from her before she even came for the day.

Talos didn't actually spend much time near the old den anymore, if she could help it—and her lengthening legs, shadowy pelt, and seemingly unquenchable mischievous spirit had increasingly often conspired to ensure she could indeed help it. Today, though... today she felt differently. Today she had found a nice sunbeam that angled into the den entryway and curled up in its embrace on the sun-warmed earth, deliberately seeking what comfort she could. Her nose twitched fitfully, taking in the dissipating scents of the others who had once dwelt here, but her mind was mostly elsewhere. It took her a little while to focus on the figure that wended its way toward her. She blinked, lifting her head and looking at the face with distant blank confusion, taking a silent additional moment to recognize the wolf, though her scent and sight were pretty familiar by now. She didn't know why the other had been shoving her nose into shrubs and treetrunks—though once that might have seemed quite the tempting invitation to spring out and surprise the lady—but for once the ordinarily-overcurious youngster found she didn't really much care.

...Au-Aura, she said, rather more subdued than usual. ...'Ello. She gazed at the fiery female for a long moment, misery glimmering deep in her dulled eyes, before suddenly bursting out, Di' Momma sen' you? ...Talos wasn't sure what answer she wanted to hear: both yes and no seemed to hold some rather terrible implications, after the awful fight she'd seen them both stalk away from. But she caught her breath and awaited the answer with hope and dread intermixed, regardless.

Aura smiled as she seen the small one curled up but something didn’t seem right about the way she was acting. The once overjoyed and mischievous young one was now a bit soft spoken and not as active. The fire bitten woman didn’t pry at first, that’s not the way she was taught to speak to young pups. A smile developed on her lips when Talos greeted her but faded away when she asked if her mother had sent her. 

After a second to ponder she shook her head and then looked down at Talos. “No, I thought today would be a good day to wonder about the territory and together maybe get into some trouble.” She chuckled at the end and winked at the small one. Hopeful this would get her spirit up and she would want to come with. On the way she could address the odd behavior, it never crossed Auras mind that the pup had saw what she had: her mother and father arguing and her father leaving.

Even before the reply was verbalized, Talos's heart sank down into her stomach to settle there like a rock as she watched the smile fade from Aura's face at the pup's question.

...Oh, was all she said in return, though, at least at first—still very down and subdued. Her ears drooped closer to the earth, and her tail seemed a limp dead thing that had been hunted and killed and then left there in the fitful sunbeams to rot. Talos was too busy staring despondently at the earth nearer Aura's feet to take much notice of her cheery wink, and the fire-furred elder's jovial tone didn't seem to penetrate Talos's shell of misery at all. Talos sat staring at the dirt for a long moment before it seemed to occur to her that the other had made a suggestion—exactly the sort of suggestion the girlchild would normally jump at. Talos gave the most halfhearted shrug possible after another moment's hesitation. Mebbeh no'. She shifted just a little, and seemed lost in her own thoughts, her eyes hazy and unfocused and brow ridged deep by concern.

But Aura wasn't just going to give up and go away, now was she? Talos shifted again a minute later, somewhat uncomfortable not only from Aura's steady presence which seemed almost to demand some sort of response, but also because she never had been one to sit still for very long. Her mood shifted as she burst out all of a sudden, the idea occurring to her on a fractious impulse: I'un wanna see th'territory. I seen enough o'ih! Weh' c'n go somepla' else. Besides, if she let Aura lead her a merry chase all around Swiftcurrent, Talos might see Momma or Poppa after all—or Aria too, horror of horrors!—and somehow she really wasn't quite sure she was ready for that yet. Yes: the more she thought about this notion of leaving the borders...maybe even for a good long while...the more and more she liked it. Her eyes surged upward to meet Aura's with fresh determination, and a stubborn set to her coal-furred jaw.