let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster

Alright! Last round. Thank you all for participating!

Bruised, and definitely a bit battered, Aesop shook himself off. He was a respectable distance from anyone else, and shouldn't have sprayed them with the mud. Probably. It did little to actually clean him, blood and mud clinging to his fur in equal amounts. Once a cream colored wolf, he was now a dark, matted brown. He wouldn't have it any other way.

"Not to worry," he told Onyx as she approached. He bumped their foreheads together gently. "A team's made of two, after all." While he was not particularly sour about losing, he could understand that she might not have felt the same way. But half the fun, he thought, was in getting absolutely filthy. He accomplished that well enough.

The other half was in the food, which was what he was now focused on. He grinned in response to Thistle's sentiments, pleased to have pleased her. The smile may have been a gruesome sight, covered in blood as he was, but they would soon be joining him as they tore into the meal. He allowed Thistle Cloud and the winners to go first, and only once they had begun to eat did he edge his way in.

And when the meal was done and he was tired, but satisfied, he ambled off to wash up and get some well earned rest.