The creekside kept her close, and in the last few days, only Charon closer as she became an otherwise elusive beast. Since it was staying relatively warm for such early springtime, and she had not shedded out very much of her dark winter coat yet, anywhere cool and shady seemed most inviting. There were the occasional times when the cerberus was out ranging that they could afford to steal away to the cave (that cave) but smelling multiple daughters so thickly all over it was mildly off-putting to the mind more keen to other things. She would usually steer it away quickly in favor of another hidden facet of the mountain.

So, the dark alpha was weighing her options beside the small waterway with @Charon somewhere not far away from her. She was currently trying to muster an appetite up, but ultimately failing although her last meal had been hours ago and she'd been busy in the meantime. Ame stared in silence and downed a long, cold drink with her front paws just touching the water's edge enough to get wet.

The chill of the water was refreshing, so she lingered long enough for a few more sips before even considering anything besides just that. When she did finally move her nose away from the waters, she felt a familiar, prickling sensation starting to creep on the back of her neck. She had a good feeling her loneliness was about to end so had to shape up her focus appropriately, and quickly.

Her ears swiveled delicately and she realized at once how close she was already. Amekaze shook the last water drops from her muzzle, and followed out the motion to just give her whole self a quick shake before shifting into a new alertness as she pivoted from the creekside to see the smaller dark figure lurk upon her. She was here already..

Amekaze greeted with a soft chuff — I'm impressed went gently implied in the arced wave of her tail that invited her closer too. She curved her neck somewhat, ticking a stance closer to defensive if needed in case this was one of the more boisterous triplets' moods that had just slid from cover towards her. As she eyed the sleek black girl, suspicion wasn't saying so yet. But with them all growing stronger and more skillful she would rather prepare just in case.

There were only certain traits that separated them but nearly as quickly as she had learned to discern them, they had learned to mimic them among themselves. It was not a flawless system, at least, to spare her that much. Sometimes right before her eyes they'd shift and change through the gradient of personalities they were comprised of, but it was never easy to tell exactly who at the first glance. Sometimes it came easier, sometimes it was just as simple to lump them together as one almost though. She had come to find it very circumstantial.

The greeting she returned matched well to what she was given. Her contact was always peppered with nips, so turned onto her, she was plenty within her element and she gripped back at the girl's scruff gently before nudging at her more. All the while, the creek's gentle burbling was a subtle enough distraction to underline every thought with.

On height, however, she smirked and gathered herself up just to prove the point — it was still nothing but middling average, although her coat and presence seemed to extend this (or so she believed), but they'd still caught up far too quickly. "Awh, such a shame," she grinned back with her own mock despair and slowly waving tail. If the rest of her appearance reflected so boldly back at her through them was any indication, Ame suspected that if they did not match, they may even surpass her juust barely. The three were certainly the most robust of the litter. She guessed Julia would stay a touch smaller, perhaps for the rest of their lives. "But give it time. Before the summer gets too hot, I bet you will have me matched." she reckoned with a smirk. If not more and if not sooner.

There was much to look forward to with the warming of the summer. She always anticipated it above the other seasons--her favorite, always, even despite the struggle it could still bring in its own way. Something about the balmy nights, the greenery, those stars overhead. It aligned just right for her, somehow, and in all her years, she knew not to doubt this.

Next question, though, drove towards a new point. Ame lifted her head, peering back; they always, without fail, could find the difficult questions that had no such easy answer. "It happens. Litters sometimes have a lot of variety in them," and to her, the fact that these three were so similar was borderline alarming. Perhaps that begged an even more frustrating question: why they managed to match so perfectly? "A brother of mine was silvery-furred, and one of my sisters had orange eyes. None of us looked exactly identical," Amekaze elaborated, not that these were exceptional real-life examples. None could meet these individuals of which she spoke. "All because wolves further back in your ancestry than just me and your father may have looked like that, or bits of that mixed and matched so that it is not even obvious where it comes from anymore; Why do you ask?" She, too, was just curious.

The information seemed to strike. Ame's ears fell back even further, with a soft sigh following the very thought. This was more complicated than she wanted, in truth. Even her understanding of the reasons why this was were incomplete, and quite beyond her understanding, although she knew she could sense some sort of methodology in why genes played out as they oftentimes did. Nature would not do so carelessly.

But it was just that very truth which made this difficult, and Amekaze would give her nothing less. "Odds were just bound to line up that way. With my black coat, and your father's midnight eyes, it does not surprise me. I would not call it weird," she explained in earnest. They looked like their parents, too, and represented a subtle twist on something her ancestors had sought after generations past: luminous in the dark--cunning dark coats and their striking eyes. "But I still have never known others, let alone a trio, who are quite as identical as you three are." If anything, that was what made them more curious than the average, and how they operated on their wavelength among them. Not only were they siblings, but it went far deeper.