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He laid on his stomach, eyes wide as he watched the small peeping chicks scurry in and out of their nest. He had found the quail nest some time ago but he had no concept of how rare it was to see baby quails this late into the year. The hen herded her chicks before they strayed too far from the den but kept a wary eye on the fluffy wolf cub that had taken an interest in her children.  He had been coming to the nest for some time, with the intention of watching them, and learning from them, and was interested in one chick in particular.

He settled in further as a fairly hoarse cry came from the nest, and a single, stumbling form limped from the mouth of the underground den the quail hen had dug. This is what he had come for. Although he was too young to grasp the concept, because the eggs had been laid so late they had a greater potential to be born malformed, and while most of the chicks had avoided this fate, one chick hadn’t. The toes of one leg had fused together making it almost impossible for it to walk properly and causing it to limp noticeably when it walked. The chick stumbled toward its mother with it’s hoarse cry, but the mother refused to go near it, it’s siblings however, did. The other baby chicks surrounded their malformed brother and began to peck at its head incessantly. The deformed chick, crying for help began so limp away from the mob but the mob only followed.

As young as he was, what he was witnessing hadn’t escaped him; The chick was weak, and would only make their survival harder, it was a threat to them because it would hold them back, and no doubt, it would die on its own anyway. The chick limped further and further away until it had come too close to the slate wolf for the others to follow. The baby bird settled between his paws and shivered, the thin and patchy feathers on its head ripped to shreds by small sharp beaks. He felt a strange mix of empathy and disgust for the creature, and realized that because of its disability it had no place in the world. The world was meant for the strong and pure and the weak were a scourge, only entitled to a swift and merciful death. His eyes narrowed before his jaws snapped closed around the small bird, and crushed its frail bones. He chewed and swallowed while the other chicks watched. Almost as though they were satisfied by the outcome, they dispersed and resumed playing with one another.

Abridged details: Tyranis finds a quail nest with a deformed chick, the chick is attacked by its healthier siblings until Tyranis kills it.

Now that it was cooler the girl had been exploring a lot more then she had been in the summer. Her dark coat and the hot sun made for a horrible day so the girl had stayed in the cool den most of the summer. Now that it was fall she was out and about more and exploring like crazy. Today was no different and today she had discovered something she was good at, even at this young of an age. She had discovered her nose was more powerful then she had thought and that she was good at picking up scents. So she had already spent most of her day fallowing trails and trying to figure out who they belonged too. It gave her something to do and excited her to discover what the scents were. So far she had tracked a rabbit, a deer, a turkey, and even a quail. She was excited to learn the different scents and wanted to continue to discover how far she could track things. It was interesting to learn the different types of animals and their scents. She was a great distance from where her brother was watching the quail and was unaware of his presence. Right now she was on the trail of a creature she hadn't come across yet. An animal that she would soon find out would be a groundhog and she tracked it back to it's den. She was quiet as she moved sneaking forward until her eyes caught sight of the young groundhog not far in front of her. The creatures back was to her giving her a perfect chance to observe it a little, but the girl also realized she was feeling rather hungry. She was certain that this creature was edible and she quickly made her mind up to kill this creature. She really didn't know what she was doing, but it seemed like her natural instinct kicked in. She crouched low and quietly moved forward and watching the creature as she moved. When she felt she was close enough she readied herself, bending her legs slightly in preparation to pounce. Once ready she sprung fourth unhinging her mouth and grasping the creature around the neck as her body landed on top of it. The young groundhog squealed and tried to wriggle free, but she remained on top of the creature, dipping her teeth into the creature and trying to whip her head in order to kill it. Her teeth were not quite sharp enough to kill the creature so she pinned it down and tried to kill it. Moving her one paw to the creatures neck she pinned it before snapping her jaws around it's mouth and nose, pinching off it's airway and trying to suffocate it. Her gold eyes darkened slightly as she realized what exactly it was that she was doing. Maybe this was her path to go in the pack it was still to early to tell. It took a while but soon the baby groundhog stilled and her tail wagged as she realized her accomplishment. Grabbing the groundhog by the neck again she moved away from it's den and settled down to eat, digging into the softer part of the animal which would be the abdomen and eating slowly. "Talk" & 'Think"

Tyranis He heard the squeal of a small animal and found his sister digging into a groundhog. Corentine had been the sister he hated the least, partially because he had to, Unlike Aella who couldn’t properly articulate his abuse and unlike Derecho who was far too proud, Corentine was apt to tell their mother that he was bullying her. That said, she wasn’t the brightest and was in fact the smallest, making him wonder if she was the malformed chick in the litter. He hadn’t quite grasped that there was something wrong with his siblings and that other than a few violent tendencies that was far from unbecoming of a wolf he was unscathed. His elevation above his siblings had been something he took a secret pride in, what he didn’t know however was just how true it was. He narrowed his eyes as he watched her, seething for a reason he couldn’t quite place and cleared his throat to get her attention. He felt that same disgust he had felt for the quail but minus the empathy. He didn’t feel sorry for his sisters one bit because in his mind none of them cared for him, and if they acted in a way that would suggest otherwise they were only pretending, the same way he had pretended for Bass and Pyrrhus text Speech

She hadn't realized that she wasn't alone as she dug into the groundhog, quickly satisfying her hunger. It wasn't until her brother cleared his throat did she realize she wasn't alone. Wagging her tail she looked back to him wit a smile before standing up and stepping aside and turning to face him. Maybe he was hungry and wanted the rest of the groundhog. She had no hatred towards any of her siblings and she had no reason to be anything but kind to him. She was much like her mother in personality aside from being more hyped up because she was young. She just wanted everyone to get along. "Hey Ty, you hungry?" she offered. Her tail wagged behind her happy that she had run into one of her siblings, perhaps she could get some time to spend with him. Little did she know their father's sickness was already effecting him at this age and that he more then likely wouldn't want any time to spend with her. She was kind in the middle of her sisters in personality and she had yet to meet her brothers darker side. "Talk" & 'Think"

Tyranis “Um, NO” He said incredulously. “That’s a groundhog.” he said as if what he were stating something obvious. “They have tons of diseases and para- paramites! Everyone knows that!” He said. He didn’t quite know what a paramite was but his mother had said they were bad even though he never payed much attention to his mother’s teachings. This degree of bullying was considerably light compared to how he had laid in to his other sisters, but his hands were tied, she was after all most likely to be a tattle tale. He didn’t want to admit that catching a groundhog at such a young age was impressive, especially not since it was her that had caught it. “Besides, I already caught a deer All. By. My. Self" by myself.” He said proudly, raising his head. He had seen a deer carcass on his way to the quails nest, and he supposed that would serve as proof that he had in fact caught and killed a deer. He wanted to hurt his sister in some way, make her feel bad because she was, as far as he was concerned, weak.   text Speech

His tone didn't even effect her as he quickly knocked her offer down with a 'no'. She shrugged her shoulders, if he didn't want it then fine she would just take it back to the den for anyone else who may want some. He went on to say they had diseases and paramites. She rose an eyebrow at the word knowing darn well that mother never said it that way. If he would have listened to his lessons that he would have learned that any of their prey could have. She really had no clue he was trying to bully her, or maybe it was because she thought to highly of her siblings that she didn't see it as bullying. "If you remember from Momma's lesson all prey has the potential to get diseases and Parasites she warned us to be careful what we eat and this little guy was healthy," she stated her tone soft. She wasn't trying to be a smarty pants she just simply wanted him to know that this groundhog was healthy and perfectly fine to eat. He then went on to state that he had caught himself a deer which made her slightly confused. There would be no way unless the deer was vary injured or highly incapacitated, but she didn't want to kill his thunder. If he wants to think he took down a deer what was the harm in letting him think that. "Great job Ty!" she said with a smile. "Talk" & 'Think"

Tyranis His muzzle wrinkled and the longer hairs on his neck bristled, she was supposed to feel bad! The fact that she wasn’t angered him and the fact that he couldn’t simply knock her down angered him even more. He settled on the fact that she was clearly just too stupid to understand her own weakness and collected himself. He huffed and raised his nose in the air as he moved past her with no particular direction in mind. He strutted away, albeit he was far from graceful with his to big paws, and bumbled onto a large rock to bask in the autumn sun not too far from her and ponder great questions of the world that only intelligent minds like his could comprehend. He laid his head between his paws, his tail wrapped around his small body and listened to the world around him, trying to forget that his sister was even there. text Speech

Without another word he trudged past her and her eyes fallowed his form as he moved away. She was confused at why he just simply walked away from her. Licking the blood from her lips she watched him get up onto a rock and flop down, his back to her and ignoring her. She looked back down to the partially eaten groundhog trying to decide what she wanted to do with it. She didn't want to waste it, but she wanted to fallow Ty and spend time with him. She stood and began to dig a hole beside the meal and when she felt it was deep enough, pushed the animal inside and used her nose as a shovel to move dirt over top of it. Once it was buried she walked towards where Ty was. She didn't get up on the rock with him, but instead flopped down on her rump besides him and the rock. She looked up at him wondering what he was thinking about. "Ty do you wanna play or explore with me?" she asked. "Talk" & 'Think"

Tyranis He looked at her, his eyes narrowed and turned away,  his nose in the air and gave  a haughty ‘Hmph’  “No!” He said incredulously as if what she had said was in some way offensive. “You’re too little to explore with me! “ He declared. “Besides, I already know the whole thicket.” He was still trying to push her buttons, to hurt her in some way. In truth he knew precious little about the thicket and had only been there a few times before. Getting to the thicket had proven to be difficult with the rapids cutting through the pack’s territory, but a downed tree splayed over the rapids, had proven to be useful now that the river had receded. That said, the tree was rapidly decaying and the brisk showers of early autumn meant that reaching the thicket wouldn’t be so easy. “Go play with your groundhog” He said with the same proud abrasiveness he had shown her before. Some small part of him admitted she wasn’t as bad as Derecho or Aella, but she still displayed what he considered to be the characteristic selfishness that he had, even in his precious youth, come to loathe. text Speech

Gently her tail wagged back and fourth as she waited for his answer and it came fairly quick. Her tail stopped wagging as he declined her offer and even went as far as acting offended that she had asked. Really what was his problem? She had never done anything to him and yet he acted like he wanted nothing to do with her. She flopped down on her rump and wrinkled her nose at him "Fine then, suit yourself" she said with a slight huff herself. She just didn't get him. Really she didn't get either of her brothers because both seemed to not want anything to do with anyone else. All she wanted to do is spend time with her family, but how could she when they didn't want to. Standing up she turned away from her brother like she was going to leave, but looked back to him again. "I was gonna show you a bunch of cool stuff, but suit yourself," she said. It was a last stitch effort to get him to hang out with her. She trudged forward disappearing in the tall grasses hoping Ty would fallow. "Talk" & 'Think"

His ears perked at that. He rose and turned, glaring heatedly t her back.  “Pft! Yeah right!” He said indignantly. “Like you would ever find something cool!” He puffed proudly, raising his head defiantly. He watched her walk on for a moment then leapt and landed gracelessly from the rock to chase after her. Now he needed to see whatever she deemed cool and properly derogate it. It didn’t matter if what she showed him really  was cool or not, he wanted to make her feel like she was uncool just because she was his sister and he had concluded, even in his short life, that his sisters were the least cool thing to ever exist and that they were in fact, the worst. He caught up to her and looked down at her with what had become a cruel and judgmental stare. “I bet you don't even know what cool is!" He sneered, his lip rising to show his needle sharp teeth. Of course he knew it wouldn’t be, nothing was cooler than the quail he had just seen, that was for sure…Then again, if it did turn out to actually be cool, he would have to show up later and examine it and see what he could learn from it, if he could learn anything at all. As long as Corentine didn’t see him do it. text speaking

She moved forward at an easy pace heading to the cool thing she had stumbled upon earlier, before her fat groundhog. She had found it cool and interesting to watch, but she also knew of something fun that could be done with it when they got there. Soon Ty was right beside her and she smiled looking up with his with a mischievous glint in her eyes. His words made her simply shrug a slight smirk coming to her lips. "Then perhaps we may have different definitions of cool," she said calmly. Picking up her pace she fast trotted ahead of him and picked up her pace so they could get there quickly. It took maybe ten minutes before the girl stopped and peered out of the long grass into a area of shorter grass. Up ahead of them was a gathering of about one dozen large, black, ugly buzzards that were fighting over a carcass. It was hard to tell what the carcass was because several birds were covering it while fanning out their massive wings. She waited for Ty to catch up, watching the birds fight with each other. "Whatcha think Ty?" she asked curiously. She had yet to show him the best part. "Talk" & 'Think"

Ty’s mouth hung open as he watched the birds. They were magnificent, gigantic creatures tearing into the carcass with hooked beaks. He continued to wade through the grass long after his sister had stopped, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets as he approached the behemoths. He crouched down, watching them intently, learning all he could. These weren’t quails, these were beasts they stank of death and bird lice and their beaks clicked furiously as they snapped at each other's unprotected heads. Simply magnificent. One of the buzzards raised it's meaty and blood caked head, its beady black eyes focusing on the pup that it deemed too close before it raised its wings and charged with a throaty shriek. Tyranis gave a terrified squeal and ran from the attacking bird as fast as he could, satisfying the bird before it returned to its feast Ty continued to run, quickly closing the gap between himself and his sister. As he drew closer, cautioned a glance over his shoulder to see if he was still being pursued. At first, he only saw the congress of buzzards a safe distance away but his line of sight quickly tilted as he tripped over his large paws and landed ass over tea kettle before falling onto his back with a loud “wuff” as the air was forced from his lungs. He could see his sister’s paws from his place on the ground but not much else and could already feel his face flushing with embarrassment. text speaking

He continued on and her ears flattened as she watched him pass her. What in the world was he doing? Did he just think he could walk right over to them? She hadn't seen his expression and didn't realize that he was amazed by the beasts, amazed enough that he wasn't paying much attention. "Ty wait!" she called, but he didn't listen lost in his trance. He had gotten to close and her eyes immediately zeroed in on the one who was eyeing him up. Before she could react the bird charged at her brother, with wings flared. Eyes widened in fear, but soon her brother snapped out of it and wheeled around running back towards her in fast rhythm. When he was out of harms way her eyes narrowed as she watched the bird return to it's meal. She didn't notice her brother's embarrassing tumble before a growl came from her throat and she charged forward. She was quick for her size and she ran straight towards those birds without fear. That was her brother they threatened and they wouldn't get away with it. The bird who rushed him was back to his meal, head completely in the carcass getting himself the best slice of meat he could. One of the other birds called out before flapping away. Ripping it's head from the body his eyes found Corentine charging towards it and it clicked it's beak and flared it's wings. Though the pup didn't back down. The bird charged at her to, but she didn't turn and run instead she jumped to the left then turned her body shortly to the right to face the birds right side before it could react. She lunged herself into it's flared out wing with her jaws opened wide grabbing onto the meat of the birds wing and biting down, making it scream in pain. Whipping it's head around the bird tried to assault her with it's beak, but she let go and dropped to the ground before throwing her body into the birds side in an attempt to throw it off balance. she was successful and jumped back as the bird flapped it's wings in an attempt to get up quickly, once it did it fled, flying off before she could do more harm to it's precious wing. "Don't you ever threaten my family again!" she barked at it as it retreated. "Talk" & 'Think"

He looked at her from his place on the ground, his heart beating rapidly. What. The. HECK. Did she think she was doing? She was showing off how great she was, how much better she was than him. He felt a snarl pull at his throat as he got to his feet, golden eyes locked on her sister as she battled with the magnificent creature. Even for a pup her movements were fluid and seamless, unlike his. He loathed her from a distance as she warned the bird to never hurt her family again. He rolled the word around in his mind and spat internally. Family. Cloud was his family, Bass was his family, his mother was his family, but Corentine and his other two sisters? His sisters who thought they were so much better than him when he wanted to be Primo more than anything else in the world? They most assuredly were not his family. He turned away, lashing his thin tail as he moved to return to the den. He didn’t want to see her or any of his sisters ever again, and yet it as inevitable that he would. Speech