The boys first year was steadily approaching and he felt he needed more experience under his belt. He was old enough to wonder now without being overly weary of getting lost and he longed to find some of the adventures that his father had told him about. It was an easy decision to make to go out of Solstice lands, and well Alpine wasn't wholly happy with the idea he knew his son needed to wonder some and get some real world experience. The only promise he had to make was to stay far far away from Arcanium and any of its wolves. This also, was an easy decision to agree to when he had seen the tension that Solstice had been going through, in fact, the heavy worry of the pack was another reason he needed to get out and breath some fresh air and enjoy his last weeks with the title of a pup.



Leaving through his territories Tall Grass Plains, His journey would drag him through the Alabrastrine Shrine and on from there into the Corpseghoul Swamp. He could scent pack lands near by, unfamiliar with their names and alliances he would simply ensure he stared clear of them. Instead he would begin his exploration of the swamp lands, and enjoy this freedom he had won himself.


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Walk | Talk | Think

As a Guard, it was his duty to protect and patrol the borders of Secretua and ensure that those within remained safe from the dangers without. While he knew he ought to take these responsibilities seriously, particularly being the son of the pack's Guardian and therefore held to a stricter standard because of it, Eirik continued to slack. Pack life was...odd now. Without his cousin there for him to pester and to be pestered by him in return, part of the fun seemed to have left the place. On top of that, the pretty green-eyed girl from the east had surprisingly decided to stay, which meant the grey yearling was much more conscientious of what he did, particularly when she was around to see. He felt like he was being stifled on all sides, and it was beginning to get to him.

It was a bad choice, a poor choice for the pack leader's own son, but Eirik abandoned his patrol anyway and ventured off outside of Secretua into neighboring territories. He had never really been one for exploration - even now he was not altogether sure which direction he should go in or if the places that he traveled through should have had more appeal than they did - but the change of pace was nice. Even with the nagging voice in the back of his mind that shamed him for ditching his responsibilities.

His black paws, turned brown by the muddy conditions of the swamplands, were slowly beginning to lose their speed as his guilty conscience began working its magic. He should be home. He needed to be home. Not here with-- Oh. But he was not alone, at least not entirely. Another youth, was nearby, a dark colored pup with a build just a little smaller than his own. The smart thing would have been to keep going along the path his guilty thoughts had already decided upon, back to Secretua and back to work, but... "Hey," he called out to the kid, not all sure he was even bothering to talk to him at all. Maybe he was desperate for someone to remind him of his cousin. "You know this place?"

The boy had never stepped into such a muddy territory before, in fact most of the territory here seemed to be water with a few treacherous paths and a thin layer of mud confusing what was true land and what was hidden water. More often then not he stepped wrong and was forced to scramble back to land until his paws where more brown and muddy then black. He was concentrating hard on what was before him, trying to figure out the trick to navigating here ? he was sure there was one if he could just figure it out.



The boy didn't realise he wasn't alone until a voice was calling out to him. He whipped his head up in surprise and misplacing his last step, grim icing as he yanked his paw out of the squelching mud. Shaking off the worst of the clingy wet substance he fully turned and looked at the stranger. ?Never been here before, i'm just taking a break? he said with a welcoming smile, seating himself on a dry bit of earth as he surveyed the boy before him. He looked young too, an added bonus ? Solor hasn't expected to find another young wolf so easily in his adventures. ?How 'bout you?' he asked curiously.