Neverwinter Forest sunlight streaming through the window frame

When a dude gets hungry, he gets up and goes hunting. That’s the sensible thing after all. Toshi wasn’t a sensible dude. 

It’s not like he didn’t try the whole hunting thing. He chased down all the hooved mammals under the sun (Toshi was craving the big stuff), but they always got away. Kid’s got spirit, but he didn’t have the body. Curse these gangly little legs.

Oh and he’s tried the scavenging thing too. Never again. Everything he found was old and rotten. There was one time he found bugs—you heard that right, bugs!—crawling around in the meat. That was the final straw. He’d rather live a life of crime than eat maggots again.

It’s his first time snooping around someone else’s place like this, so obviously he was absolute shit at it. Every twig he came across? Snapped. Every rock in his way? Tripped over. Maybe it’s the hunger that made him slip up every second.

Despite being terrible at this thieving business, there was a smirk on his face. Adrenaline pumped through his blood, and Toshi was absolutely living for it. He couldn’t wait to sink his teeth into some real food.

ill let you decide if she pins him or not, mutton!

She's searching for Jackalope when she stumbles across the unfamiliar scent, hairs prickling along her spine as she realizes she's come across an intruder. A young one; the thought worries her. She turns to follow the trail without hesitation, howling for @Mal and @Simmik when the scent seems fresh. Then her pace picks up, turning into a run as her gaze locks onto the dark youth. She aims to throw herself against him, pin him to the ground if she can; not an attack, but certainly not a warm greeting. The healer will not harm a child if she can help it, but this child is half-grown and a real danger to her own younger pups. She will tolerate no threats to her litter — adult or child.

Things were going very very smoothly! Nevermind the not-so-distant howl. It’s probably for something else right? Wrong. Moments later he was being charged, and he didn’t have time to move out the way.

Toshi fell to the ground with an ear-ringing thud (maybe not ear-ringing. he was being dramatic as always). woah, woah, hey what’s the big idea lady?? He flailed his paws in an attempt to get from out under her or kick her off. That’s no way to treat a guest!

Simmik had followed the intruder's scent from the borders, intent on tracking them down and dealing with them. She patrolled enough that she picked up the strangers scent with no issue and turned from the edge of the forest to see how far they had made it. Whatever they were doing, they were about to feel her teeth in their hide because she had no tolerance for trespassing. 

It wasn't long before Aibreann's scent mixed with that of the intruder, and the Beta increased her speed, sprinting through the trees to cover as much distance as quickly as possible so that she could offer support to her packmate who clearly had the same idea she had. 

She arrived to find the boy pinned beneath the mother, and his disrespectful words made her snarl as she came to stand over him. You are no guest of ours, she said with a growl. You deserve nothing but our teeth as far as I'm concerned. The only thing stopping her was that Aibreann had arrived first, and Simmik thought she deserved the first bite; she didn't care that the stranger was practically a kid—he was old enough to know better.