Wheeling Gull Isle You have walked this path since your birth

She did not leave the island yet, knowing that there was a large wilderness in the waiting. When the siren Ruo, told her the way to Yuelong, rarely did she leave so. Instead Fanglong bid her days in the island, often.. Staring out, simply eyeing the ocean during the day, the night, dawn and dusk, ice-blue eyes never seemed to leave the view.

Most often the boy kept with his family, hardly venturing beyond their eyes; it wasn’t that he didn’t like those unrelated to himself, he was simply skeptical. But today he found himself alone, wandering along the island—he loved this place, truly and entirely, and could walk its shores for hours. And perhaps he might have done that, had the form of another not entered his line of sight. Seeing her, he froze and merely continued to stare, curious but hesitant.

Luli, too, was wary of those beyond her family circle. Skittish by nature, she rarely interacted with her mother's followers beyond those instructed to mind the pups. Now that the koi and her siblings were fast outgrowing the need for a sitter, they seemed to see even less of their grown pack-mates.

She looked for Xiaoqing that afternoon, and grasped at an opportunity to better hone her tracking skills. The boy made it easy for her, having left clear prints in the sand that he'd trailed across, but his posture on locating him made her heart skip an uncomfortable beat. Lifting her slim muzzle as she drew closer, her seaglass eyes found the source of her brother's uncertainty in the form of a raven-pelted wolfess.

She quickened her stride to close the distance between them. Dappled flank pressed to his own, Luli offered the comfort of her presence while seeking it for herself from Xiao's proximity. 

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The young sailor was unsure how long he’d been standing there, stare unwavering, before he felt another at his side. At first, he lurched upwards and back, throwing a sideways glance at the source of contact—but upon realising who it was, he settled and leaned into her. There was a moment of ease before he remembered the dark wolf, then the child stiffened and snapped his head back around to see—but the space was absent.

With panic in his eyes and airplane ears out, he looked back to his sister. Had she seen where the stranger went?

Xiaoqing's fearful reaction had Luli shrink away, and she emitted a sharp whine in surprise. She hadn't expected him to jump at her arrival, at her quiet offer of comfort, but she understood his nervousness better than most. Of all her littermates, it was to her introvert brother she felt she could most relate to.

The tiny koi welcomed him to her once more when he realised she meant no threat, and she settled in close to him again. By the time each of them looked up, however, the dark figure who'd first roused Xiao's uncertainty had vanished. Luli blinked, turquoise eyes searching the immediate area for any sign of where they might've moved off to, but there was nothing.

She felt Xiaoqing's anxiety spike as though it were her own, and she pressed her nose among the sandy fur of his neck. "你认为-" she jerked her head up to swing her muzzle in the direction of a rustle in overhead branches, to see only a small, brown songbird hop between them. "你以为是鬼吗?"