Ravensblood Forest My life ain't filled with worries

"Ah, yeah.."  Playing tag.  Actually not too bad a description.  "Sparring partners are a little short in the Plateau at the moment, and I figured I could use the practice.  So he was nice enough to oblige."  Dante looked off in the direction the moose had gone, amused.  Lasher might have entertained him, but he hadn't wanted to ask the busy father to do so.  Osprey as well, but he had felt she might still be recovering, and Mordecai and Harlyn were still away.  And Blue Willow?  That would have just felt strange... and she was in pretty much the same boat as Lasher.  Nah, better to pick on unsuspecting fauna instead.

A little hesitantly, he added a bit more explanation.  "I might have gotten my ass handed to me a couple of weeks ago.  Can't afford to be rusty any more."  Were it anyone but Junior, he wouldn't have brought this up.  But he hoped she wouldn't judge him too harshly outside of the normal teasing for it, seeing as she no longer fell under his leadership.  And he knew she wouldn't use the information against him... well, at least he thought he knew.  It was a crazy image thinking of her going so far as to do that.  The jabs for it, though, would be well-deserved.

"And I don't mean here here... but away from the new digs.  Aren't you Beta somewhere now?"  He imagined she would still travel, of course, but it really felt as though she'd just been here.  "Not that I'm complaining! It's good to see you again."  And it was.  As much as he rolled with the comings and goings of people in his life, he didn't like the idea of them disappearing for good.  And he was glad she wasn't of that variety, though for a long time he had thought her such.