Arrow Lake Blood Pact Scout, Weird Scout, Dreadnought Scout, Dark Scout, Fear Scout

No amount of trying to crack the hard soil would unearth the hidden arachnid. Dragomir didn't yet have the strength in his arms or the callouses on his pads to make more than a paltry dent in the ground, and the spider knew it was safe from him as long as it stayed in the crevice. There were roots of weeds for it to rest on; it wasn't so bad down there. They were at an impasse. Wanting whines poured from Dragomir's half-parted jaws, followed by a huff in the crack's direction, but still the spider did not emerge.

Lucky that Takiyok happened upon him, or Dragomir might have spent the rest of all his days intently focused on that crevice in the earth. Her chuff drew his attention away from the spider. As with Sadiq before, Dragomir couldn't yet discern the differences between her face and Aure's; he was blind to his mother's physical imperfections, and similarly blind to Takiyok's individual features. He relied on scent to tell others apart, and just now, he hadn't caught her scent.

So he stumbled toward his "mother" with a joyful wag of his tail, his whines turned to happy croons as he sought to bump against her chest in a rare show of physical affection. If Takiyok looked closely at what he was focused on before, she might pick up on the slow emergence of several long, spindly legs.