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They will fight - Haedwig - October 01, 2025
Haedwig had found the last piece she needed today; a poppy that sat at her paws.
With it, she suddenly found herself calling for @Kindle.
Suck-up or not, the boy had grown on her, and she now wished to speak to him about this nephew's pack once more. Haedwig wasn't sure how soon she would follow him. After all, she would need a suitable hole to keep her wolf birth control stored in.
Whether or not he would accept her, Haedwig still found herself looking forward to the prospects of a decent meal. Pack-hunted meals always tasted better.
RE: They will fight - Kindle - October 02, 2025
Tagging @Cosmo! Feel free to join if you like! If not, we can just say he's nearby. Other tags for reference.
He'd stuck largely to the Glen after meeting @Leonore, happy enough to loiter while different pieces of his family puttered around in the surrounding area. They kept track of one another with a round of howling each night — Kindle had been trying to teach his canine friend how to howl like a proper wolf, and had "introduced" the dog to his family in this way. But singing back and forth was no substitute for an embodied encounter, of course. He kept promising they'd run into the other Morningsiders "soon".For now, someone else was far closer at hand. Kindle popped to his paws at the sound of Haedwig's voice and set off toward her at once.
"Hello, Haedwig," he called as he caught sight of her broad frame. He picked up the pace, his tail wheeling happily in the air. "Are you done with your errands, then?"
RE: They will fight - Haedwig - October 02, 2025
Kindle hadn't taken long to arrive at all, Haedwig supposing that he had been nearby.
I suppose I am.She responded, her tail tense at her hocks to avoid any stray waggling. No way she would let on that she was happy to see him - not even Lilith got that honour most days.
Does your offer still stand? I'm hungry.
Hungry, and tired, and in need of a good wash. Haedwig had accepted long ago that she couldn't quite live alone anymore, despite her efforts to be stubborn. If Kindle would still have her, she would go with him before considering another pack.
She did question what had given her a soft spot for him. However when she began to wonder if Sigdad would have grown to look anything like that boy in front of her..
Haedwig was quick to push that thought away.
RE: They will fight - Cosmo - October 02, 2025
Cosmo was eager to learn everything there was to being a proper pack wolf – well, as close as he could get, considering any wolf in him was a distant memory in his lineage. He’d stuck to his new wolfy friend, Kindle, maybe putting too much trust into him knowing how to survive in this new wilderness. He hadn’t noticed as the wolf wandered off, too busy sniffing curiously at the many new scents found in the thick vegetation of the area. It was only when he heard a new voice that his ears perked up, head snapping in the direction it came from.
“Wait for me!” Cosmo exclaimed, not wanting to miss his chance to potentially meet one of the other Morningsiders Kindle had previously mentioned. He bounded towards the sound of conversation until he reached the two wolves, one of them unfamiliar. This wolf looked much older, but strong, too. She’d definitely be at the back of the sled formation, if not able to pull it completely by herself, maybe even with extra heavy cargo. He should’ve been intimidated by her rough appearance, but –
“Hello!” His voice was cheerful, and though he stayed behind Kindle to give her some space, his tail was already wagging up a storm. “Are you two friends?”
RE: They will fight - Kindle - October 02, 2025
Kindle had been about to say that his offer certainly did still stand, although he had nothing ready (at the moment!!!) for her to eat. It was a bad time, then, for Cosmo to hop in looking extremely edible.
"Yep and yep," he agreed, answering both of them in as dry a tone as he could manage with his heart rabbiting in his chest. "Haedwig, this is my friend Cosmo. Cosmo, this is Haedwig."
He was glad that the dog stayed behind him while he watched the woman very, very carefully.
"Not one of the ones I told you about," he said, perhaps meant as an aside to Cosmo, but Haedwig was surely close enough to hear. He didn't want to say, she might eat dogs or the resultant, but I'll protect you. There were just too many unknowns here to say much aside from —
"Do you still wanna join us?" he asked the woman.
RE: They will fight - Haedwig - October 02, 2025
Haedwig could have been quite content with the situation, until a dog came bounding up to them. She had remembered that Kindle had mentioned meeting one.. and Haedwig still didn't like them much. Haedwig felt no reason to hide this, furrowing her brow.
Thankfully for Kindle and Cosmo, Haedwig wasn't too keen on eating canines.
I might.She responded, her ears turning back. As though Kindle's theory had some accuracy, thunder crackled overhead. The day had been showing signs of rain, so it wasn't exactly abnormal.
The coyotes and coywolves of her last home had been one thing. Strange, but still wildborn. Domesticated dogs rarely had anything "wild" about them, and Haedwig was quite familiar with the two-legged terrors that could follow them.
RE: They will fight - Cosmo - October 02, 2025
Cosmo was almost completely oblivious to the tension the air carried – in fact, as thunder crackled through the sky, it allowed him to chalk up any weirdness to be that… pre-rain feeling. Nothing he couldn’t deal with, though! He’d always been a fan of rain. (Though he far preferred snow, of course – basically just super cold rain.)
“Haedwig is a neat name!” He said cheerfully. “What’s Haedwig joining us for?” Cosmo took a step forward to be next to Kindle, but didn’t go any further when he spotted the new wolf’s ears were turned back. There were some differences in how wolves and dogs expressed emotion, so he couldn’t tell if her ears were back from some sort of negative emotion, or if she’d maybe just heard something interesting behind her. Cosmo’s ears perked up to listen, just in the off chance that it was the latter.
RE: They will fight - Kindle - October 02, 2025
When he didn't see any signs that Haedwig would outright attack his friend, he allowed himself to relax a little more, and didn't try to stop the dog from moving a little closer.
"Katmai's pack," he replied, unsure if he'd used those words to describe what his nephew was doing thus far. Katmai, of course, would only be familiar to Cosmo by name and by voice and by faint traces of the other wolf's scent that Kindle had pointed out from time to time. Haedwig however, unbeknownst to Kindle, had met the young wolf already. "Haedwig is a medicine woman," he explained to Cosmo. "She knows about plants and healing, and she is wise in other ways. It's good to be around wolves who have seen more years than you."
He had no idea that Cosmo was actually older than him. Perhaps he would come to that conclusion if he thought about it, but considering the diminutive stature and excitable personality of the dog, it'd never come into question.
"We can hunt right now, I think," he said, looking between the two of them. "And then we can corner the kid. He's thataway — " Kindle pointed his nose toward the highest mountain peak in the west — "Seems like he's about done galivanting."
That was Kindle's hope, anyway.
RE: They will fight - Haedwig - October 02, 2025
Haedwig's lips curled for a passing moment when Cosmo moved closer. She wouldn't say it, surprising given she rarely kept her mouth shut, but she thought Kindle was insane to keep the dog around. She felt too tense to even appreciate the young man feeding her ego.
You don't need to hunt for me. A storm is coming.She responded, eyes briefly flicking up to the dark clouds moving towards them. Haedwig wasn't much bothered by the rain in truth, but she didn't want to share a meal with Cosmo. Dogs carried all kinds of diseases. What was with the younger generation, always so comfortable around them?
When Kindle gestured to a mountain, Haedwig knew that her age was going to show in more ways than one today.
..It'll take me a while to climb that. Another reason to get moving now.She grunted in place of a sigh.
She missed her youth.
RE: They will fight - Cosmo - October 03, 2025
Cosmo remained oblivious to Haedwig's animosity, looking towards Kindle at the exact moment she curled her lip at him. His eyes went wide when Kindle described her work as a medicine woman, and he gasped. “She's like the vet, then! That's so useful!” Under his breath, he then mumbled, “Even though the vet is kinda scary.” Maybe it was fitting that she looked so scary, then – that's how you do healing best.
“Oh, we should go before it rains, then!” Cosmo said, trotting a few feet ahead, before stopping, turning his head back to look at Haedwig. “Hey, do you have anything you need help carrying up the mountain?” He didn't know if she had any personal belongings, such as weird wolf-vet-medicine things.
RE: They will fight - Kindle - October 04, 2025
Clearly, Haedwig didn't love the idea of having a dog around. Kindle felt just a little torn by this fact. His stronger bond was with Cosmo, who fed a different sort of need for validation for him — but that friendship would likely cause many wolves the same sort of discomfort and disdain that Cosmo caused Haedwig, now.
The pragmatic thing to do, he thought, would be to send the dog away. He didn't belong with them, anyway. But something of his great-grandmother's herding instincts must have lived on in him: he could not fathom the idea of sending away one of his flock.
Still. "Cosmo," he murmured, reluctant censure in his voice. He was sure that talk of such alien things would bother the old woman, even though Kindle himself found the subject fascinating. He was glad when the dog offered what Kindle thought of as a peace-making gesture.
"Have you still got all your flowers?" he asked her, sniffing in her direction. Was that — garlic? He reeled back a fraction, slightly put off by the scent.
RE: They will fight - Haedwig - October 04, 2025
Her expression was unchanging as Cosmo spewed more of what she took as nonsense. Haedwig would refuse to acknowledge it.
No.She responded bluntly in return to the offer, picking up her single poppy.
She shifted towards the mountain, eyes wary.
The rest of my things are stored away, I'll get them tomorrow.It was too late in the day to do it now. What would have been her den should her season have come earlier was a day's trip away, at least with her bones it was.
This nephew, you told him I'm coming. Right?She asked Kindle with a raised brow. Haedwig wasn't going to walk all this way if she might be turned away.
RE: They will fight - Cosmo - October 05, 2025
Somehow, Cosmo had only just then picked up that something could be off with his role in the conversation. Kindle sounded reluctant in reaction to him bringing up a more human topic, and Haedwig continued to be blunt with him. It brought his mind back to something Kindle had said when they first met.
“I don't have a problem with dogs, but not everyone's the same way."
Perhaps Haedwig was one of those wolves he’d been warned about, but she still didn’t seem like she wanted to eat him yet. Not wanting to test that, Cosmo sat down a few feet ahead of them, keeping a respectful distance from Haedwig as he waited for the two to be ready to move, maybe scratching at his ear a few times to busy himself. He didn’t blame her distaste of him – he was incredibly different. If anything, keeping his distance might give him more time to think on how to win her over.
RE: They will fight - Kindle - October 06, 2025
Kindle was growing just a little annoyed — both with himself and with Haedwig. He knew her to be blunt and opinionated. It hadn't bothered him when she has directed it his way, but he was reluctant to put sweet Cosmo through the same treatment. He should've thought more about what he was doing — but it was easy to blame Haedwig, too, when she raised her brow at him.
"I didn't," he replied, a bit crisply, But I did tell you about my dog friend. "Don't worry. He's good-hearted, and I'm bringing you to him as my friends. He'll look to like."
Quite like Cosmo, Kindle thought. On a whim, he lifted his head and howled, heralding their imminent arrival.
"There," he said, turning toward the mountain. "Now he knows."
He nudged Cosmo's shoulder, beckoning him along as he set off without another word or backward glance — though at a pace plenty slow enough for Haedwig to comfortably keep stride.