Rising Sun Valley it's a small world after all

for @Talon

The teenager had wandered again. He was curious to this strange new natural world. So many scents, so much noise... And the food was not small pellets or medications. It was fresh meat, real meat, of animals. At first it seemed disgusting and too bloody for the teen that only deserved the best, but Outlaw liked it when he tried it. He was trying to get used to it. His paws flattened tall grasses in the field that he walked in, his white paws getting dirtier. He really needed to clean out his fur, dirty fur ruined a king's reputation, right?

They separated, Darkside and himself to try their lucks with hunting in these lands. The husky sniffed the air, bicolored eyes scanning the land in front of him with the intense gaze of a predator. He smelled something, it was the familiar scent of dog. What more, it was a familiar one, which meant one of the dogs from the van. The smell came before the image, but it wasn't long before the figure emerged. Talon remembered him, but did not know his name. Little did he know, Darkside had also met this exact same dog sometime ago. "Hello," he called out in greeting.

He glanced up at a hello. The teen looked at the source- a husky with bicolor eyes. He seemed familiar- had he run from the van with Darkside? He was pretty sure he recalled the two running off into the night together. "Hello. I'm Outlaw." He told the husky guy. He seemed maybe six months older than Outlaw. He studied him. Lots of scars. "You're from the accident too, aren't you?" He asked the man with a raise of his brow. Outlaw was just calling it 'the accident' now. If they had been there, they probably knew what he meant.

"I'm Talon," the husky introduced himself and nodded an answer to Outlaw's question. "The accident, huh? Nice name you got for that," he said with an amused tone. "You're alone? Didn't stick with anyone?' The husky inquired curiously and with a wag of his tail. A friendly gleam was evident in his bicolored eyes, this was another dog who went to hell and back, attacking mode did not need to be activated just yet. Besides, with the metal in his body and tiredness seeping into him, he did not have much energy reserved for fighting his own kind.

"Talon? Darkside's bro, right? He told me you guys were friends." He said. At Talon's next words, he also chuckled at his own name for it. It sounded so dramatic. Well, it was dramatic. "Nah, not alone. Not stupid. I'm chillin' with Dogmeat and the gang for now. Hoping to earn my way to right hand man, second in command." He told Talon. He wasn't so secretive about it, he decided- everyone wanted to be second in command. He was no different, just a better canidate for the rank.

"Talon? Darkside's bro, right? He told me you guys were friends." Talon canted his head, a smile touching his lips. So Darkside met Outlaw too? Interesting. "Yep, I see you've met him." It seems like this dog was also hanging out with Dogmeat and his ragtag band of dogs. He shouldn't be surprised, after all, he had seen with his own eyes that a lot of dogs ran away with the older male, he had to admit the older male had the aura of a leader, a commandeering presence. But lacked the charismatic aura, the aura that compelled others to devote themselves to you. Something the lead husky when he was a pup had. "Hmm...lots of dogs are following him right?"

"Yes. He is the new king of us now. We need a leader, and Dogmeat naturally stepped up to defend us in these dark times." He said, how he saw it. But Outlaw was heir to the throne, at least in his head. Dogmeat was a bit of a role model to the teen, however, when Outlaw was that old, and the king, he wanted to be cool and have a hot chic with him. Yep, that was how it would go. "You're not, huh? Just you and DS, or more?" He asked Talon with a curious tilt of his head. He wondered if there were more who had gone alone. Or any who had died in their cages? What a scary thought. Which reminded him of RR, and he fought to stay cool. He couldn't cry in front of some stranger.