Northstar Vale I don't want to think about it now

Set on the 6th of September - Chusi wants to claim the pack but first needs to hear of Rannoch's disappearance. Hydra has come and has most likely told at least 1 wolf of the details. So, with that aside: @Mouse @Genie @Airi @Mattias @Liffey @Cypress @Rian @Tulip(we really need more members! XD)

She had not stopped by her home. She knew it was bad - terrible, even, but she couldn't bring herself to. She was afraid... Afraid of wanting to admit she liked another place better than "home" - admitting that she liked another guy more than she did her own father. She was afraid of... letting go of those who had raised her and choosing for herself. As selfish as it was, she passed Teaghlaigh and headed straight for Northstar Vale. One purpose, one thing she had to do. Confess. Confess her sins to wolves she barely knew and even tell one of them she had found their sister. Would he be thrilled? Sad that his own blood had chosen another guy over her own brother? She couldn't blame Seabreeze...

Upon arriving, she felt something... Strange. She didn't know, but she had a bad feeling about the place. She looked 'round, wanting to spot Rannoch or Mouse, but from so high up anything could be a wolf. That's when she threw her head up in the air, calling for the Vale's members - all those she had met and shared valuable friendships with. She needed to speak to them. When her call ended, her eyes were foggy and a soft whine escaped her maw before she truly let go.

oops sorry

 

The days were long and the months were short in Mattias's stay in the vale and while he had moved onto a different stage of grief he found himself struggling with the in-between.  What now?  He had mechanically been going about the duties and upkeep of the Vale while simultaneously regressing socially, collapsing inwards on himself as he checked off the daily to-dos.

It was this he was doing when her cry reached his ears, crumpled and broken and it ripped open the wounds that had just begun to heal.  Nonono.  Chusi.  No.  She had genuinely been the only individual outside of Genie he had spoken to since his arrival in the Teekons and with the rocky start he had with the chocolate sprite Chusi had been his favorite.

He moved swiftly towards her.  Mattias had been the problem-solver in the Sound; they called on him before they called on the Alphas to fix shit or fuck it up and he was prepared to do either but he was not ready to see his friend so anguished.

He breaks into the clearing before her and touches his nose to her forehead before moving back, giving her space but he was ready.

Chusi.

Hard as it was for Genie to admit, she didn't have many close friends within the Vale. There was Rannoch, but he didn't really qualify; then there was Mouse, but she didn't know him that well just yet even though a small part of her liked him. Chusi was the one she felt the most comfortable with, so even though Genie knew that eventually her friend would leave, when reality finally caught up, she found herself unreasonably unhappy. Of course, she ignored that feeling by working twice as hard, and for a while, they vanished.

Genie had been absentmindedly wandering when Chusi's cry rang through the air. Almost instantly, her heart began beating faster than it had before and her eyes widened almost comically. What on earth? Why was she back? But did that even matter? No.

Genie ran, skidding to a stop in front of her friend as concerned amber eyes flit over Chusi's face. Distantly, she registered Mattias presence and although a flicker of jealousy burned bright, she stamped it out quickly. With an air of hesitance she wandered closer to her friend, a whimper slipping from between her lips.

another summoning howl. she didn't recognize the voice, but it rang with such presumed authority that she had to answer with her own indignant challenge. Airi stormed from her perch in the mountains. down the slopes into the curve of the vale until she thought she saw the source. she didn't have the same recognition to the girl as her two packmates did. instead, her face twisted in annoyance at the presumed dominance each of these foreign howlers had. who the fuck are you?

Though he would not admit it even to himself, since the departure of the pretty señorita days had began to feel longer as if the hours had been stretched and left to dry under the blue sky of the seemingly never ending days. He had been keeping himsef busy by taking some scouting trips of his own, mostly to places near the Vale but still far enough to keep him away from entire afternoons. So the fact that his best friend and Alpha Rannoch had gone missing had gone unnoticed by the creamy Ostrega. 

Really since he had returned from his last little trip he had not really interacted with any of his packmates, he hadn't even seen or crossed paths with Genie yet. So, as what would seem to be another quiet day advanced, Remi lied idly under the shade of a tree, his eyes jumping from cloud to cloud as he tried to find a shape for each. But the silence didn't last too long. He raised himself inmediately, his ears swivelling quickly atop his head.
It was her voice.

With a the itch of curiosity starting to climb up his skin he took off towards the direction the Fearghal's call had come from. He was not the first to arrive, he recognized Genie inmediately, the rich brown of her fur, and next to her Airi. Then, just in front of them, unmistakably her. Chusi. He approached with his tail slightly tensed, issuing a general hello to the three females with a low chuff but adding a small nugde to Genie's shoulder as he greeted her. He was about to give Chusi a more special greeting too when the Zeta growled in Chusi's direction.

He turned towards Airi, lips slightly curled to reveal a small snarl that said 'watch it' before letting all his attention fall upon Chusi once more. "You're back" he noted, the corners of his lips now forming a smile. 

The first to come was exactly the one she had been looking for in the first place and she forced some happiness into her features. As he "booped" her forehead though did she break, a smile no longer adorning her foxy face. I found yar sistah... Seems we were both right - they settled close ta mah... home, at tha edge of Teekon. She's doin' fine. She informed as quickly as possible, not wanting it to be lost in their reunion. It was good she did too, for before long did more footfalls come closer and closer. She should've known it was Genie, just from the way the tiny sprite seemed to dance of the rocks, but she didn't. Her mind was somewhere else... How come only they had greeted her? Where was Rannoch?

She forced a rather broken smile, closing her eyes for a bit. Didn't think ya could get rid o' meh tha' easily, now did ya? She teased, wanting to touch her nose to her friend's cheeks before the third visitor came to greet them.

The next Valer... She did not recognize. From the mere dominance and the curse words alone could she tell the girl was probably not really into making friends, especially with some stranger showing up at their borders yet again. Strange, how they had not ran into each other in the time she had been among them, but she blamed the other. Chusi was the most social creature of her family and if she had known another wolf had been in the Vale she would've searched for her. Fearghal - Chusi Fearghal. She introduced shortly, just before... Mouse!

Her face lit up, light present again in her ocher eyes when she saw his own crystallized orbs. She could feel her cheeks grow warm under her charcoal fur as he defended her from the seemingly rather mean female. Eheh - couldn't stay 'way from ya guys fur long. And especially not away from you. She had given up going home for Mattias, had gone out of her way to see Genie again and now she was reunited with her own Spanish-speaking rodent. Only one thing was missing from the picture. Where's Rannoch?