Redtail Rise XXI

And so their game would go: Requiem trying his best to mimic the much larger wolf, and Augur acting the child, to and fro. Mud spraying, paws slipping.

On more than one occasion Requiem lost his footing entirely but he would bounce back from the cold earth and laugh, or growl in his juvenile way. He'd taken a few rough dives and been unbothered by the wetness of the mud, or how roughly he'd at times planted himself within it.

All the while he'd return to grappling with one mighty foot of Augur's, or seek an ear, and smudging brown throughout the white wolf's coat.