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Spook was shaken. He'd been right and his sister hadn't believed him. He at least didn't blame his mother -- she'd done all she could here to protect them. But obviously here they couldn't do anything to have prevented it. Maybe he should have tried harder. Somehow. He'd figure it out. There had to be some way to shift luck to be in their favor, so that they could all be protected.  Somehow.

But Spook was at the moment weaving his way across the territory, carrying a single bird wing without the rest of the bird -- it was from a pretty drab looking species, or perhaps just a young one of whatever it was. The details didn't matter. But he'd finally found a good one to add to his collection, so he was taking it back to his little stash of interesting things and would figure out its place in the world after doing so.

Or that was the plan until he popped around a corner and spotted a white wolf sitting right next to the path he'd been planning to take. Uhhhh. He knew of Kaertok from scent and from the hunt. But not personally beyond that. Since he didn't come with familial familiarity like Arbiter, Spook had kind of avoided him just because he'd seemed kind of intimidating and he didn't need that in his life necessarily. Spook had frozen, at least for those few seconds, ears back, not really sure if he should say something or just run off or what.