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"WHY!" Why? This wolf really was an idiot.

Damned fool.. Arashi muttered briskly before trotting forward, lunging straight into the water.

Limbs fought against the pull of the water. The frigid substance had numbed his toes by the time he reached the sight of brown and white fur.

Roughly grabbing the boy's scruff, the hound drug the combined weight back to the shore. Once his feet felt rough sand beneath their nearly lost touch, the pound of fur within his hold was released.

Arashi now stood well above the much smaller wolf, body soaked from the neck down.

Fool! He repeated, spitting in the other's face.

Are you completely deranged, or were you looking for death? Had he been trying to give away his own life as though it were a gamble, or did he have no comprehension of the power the waves held?