He could feel his pace slowing the closer they got to Covari, unintentionally he was slowing down. Why he didn't know, but he could feel his body tiring more than it should have. By the time their forms were visible to the border he was walking. Exhaustion apparent as his tongue fell from his lips panting. Looking back for the first time at her form, breathing labored. "This is Covari, where you will belong." he'd sit back onto his haunches, letting his head back and summoning Orchid and Viridiana. He felt an awful chill go through him as he ended the call. It would push him to the ground. Suddenly he could no longer see, his vision became blurry and his eyes would begin to sting. He'd never cried for anything before, but from his optics liquid would pour. They were not tears of water however, red rivers of blood would run down his eyes as his form continued shaking. He was suddenly alarmed because something was very wrong with him.?

"Speech"

so wake me up when it's all over, when I'm wiser and I'm older

leanne claves

all this time I've been finding myself and I didn't know I was lost

The woman had obediently followed the man back to the borders on his home. Silence had filled her the entire journey, for she would not speak unless commanded to. He raised a call for two wolves whom she did not know before introducing the lands as Covari and she was directed that it was her new home. She simply nodded in an obedient understanding. It was then that blood started to pour from his eyes and she nearly jumped out of her fur. "Master?" She let the words plead from her lips. Was it the same disease that took her former master? No, her former master had not bled from his eyes.


Her multicolored fur was flat against her back, she cowered slightly as she looked to him. as a slave she had learned the basics of healing so she might be able to aid her master in his times of sickness but she knew no herbs for what she was witnessing. Oh no, would she be accused of making such terrible things happen to the master?

Soliloquy was most disgruntled by his brother's lack of attention. The excuse Scorpion had created for leaving Uroril without a word had been hardly pleasing to Soliloquy's ears and even less so now that they'd been dragged into a pack that didn't seem to benefit anyone other than Scorpion and his dear Orchid. He was not a child anymore, didn't expect to be treated like one but a little more recognition from his brother was all he asked for. Instead it was being handed to all these strange women he continued to drag back with him after each trip out of the lands. Perhaps a part of it was jealousy, Soliloquy longed to know how to did it so easily. Though the call from his brother had not been for him, he had asked for Orchid as well as Vi and something just seemed a little off with it. Curious, for he certainly wouldn't admit any worry just yet, the young Destruction man would move forwards to investigate. First on the scene all he would find was his brother bleeding from his eyes and a another woman looking rather terrified. The fear in her did little to soothe Soliloquy however and instead a deep growl sounded from within him. "Step away." He demanded of the woman. "What have you done to him?"

A howl would call her to the border ? not any normal, boring call from a stranger but the one from her brother asking for her and their leader to meet him at the border. She was quick to obey, fisrtly grabbing a few basic herbs in twirling the leaf that carried them into her fur as had become her habbit. This done she bounded to the border to find her brother. Her steps light and happy as she thought of the boy that was her world, and thought of all she needed to tell him of what she had learned ? not the mention the herbs to boost his immune system that she had already decided upon after hearing news of the epidemic.



She arrived before him, with a shocked expression of horror to her pretty face. She was too late.. she had failed him. She blinked rapidly as she took in her brother, her eyes almost missing the stranger hovering near, and their sibling as well. The healer dismissed them all in the wake of this emergency by. ?Dont touch him? she snapped, her self hate manifesting into anger in her tone, they weren't entirely certain if it was contagious where where beginning to suspect it was not, but either way, this stranger was not touching him.



?Scorpion... my Scorpion? she whispered, crouching before his face and taking in the full extent of it. ?I don't know the herbs to fix this, all I can offer are herbs to boost your immune system and to ease any pain you might be feeling? she murmued gently to him.

"Speech"

His newly possessed slave had followed his command well, she was on his heels the entire time. Though she could do little for him as he would succumb to the illness. She would grow rather concerned, but Scorpion would not soothe her. He didn't even know what was going on. Soliloquy would enter, his voice rather accusing as he drew near. Scorpion could only make out their basic shapes as Orchid finally came. He would try to make out her angelic features but his vision was too blurry. "My Orchid.. I brought you.. A gift." the words were stuck as he tried to explain. "I've brought Leanne... For you." he would care less about the herbs, he wanted to make sure she knew the reason of his call. Laying his head in her paws he was ready to eat anything she gave him. This sickness was trying to overwhelm him.? WORDS HERE

It was not long before another arrived and demanded that she step away before demanding what she had done to him. "Leanne didn't hurt master. Leanne would never hurt master." She said with fear in her eyes as she continued to watch him with his sickness plaguing the air. She was not afraid of catching the sickness but instead of losing another master to death. Losing another master to death would only prove her to be cursed. Soon another arrived and demanded that she not touch the master. "Leanne never touch master. Leanne only touch master when ordered to." She said again as she backed up further, cowering slightly as she watched it all go on. The various shades of grey and brown wolf watched it all; fear and confusion filled her eyes as she watched.


Scorpion spoke and Leanne was confused. She was to be a gift to a wolf who was accusing her? Wait, which one was Orchid? She looked at the two wolves with confusion in her eyes. What was going on? Her heart rate picked up but nothing more. She could feel it practically beating out of her chest. She was to serve Orchid in whatever way she could.

Scorpion wouldn't acknowledge his words, fortunately on this occasion Soliloquy would simply put it down to the sickness and instead focus his attention on the stranger who had taken it upon her own shoulders to defend herself. Trust his brother to find someone so willing to call him master, though she certainly seemed rather weak, so timid and fearful. Orchid would arrive swiftly, fortunately for the stranger who he assumed was called Leanne. Ignoring her for a moment, vivid yellow eyes would turn their attention towards his sister, hoping that perhaps she would have a better sense of what to do now. The words were soft, though not quiet enough that Soliloquy couldn't hear them and they didn't fill the man with much confidence. Had it been another wolf perhaps in the moment he may have said something else, insulted their intelligence as a healer or something less than patient. This was his sister though, his family and the fact she was Scorpion's favourite mattered little to that process. He would remain silent and simply lightly touch his nose to his sister's shoulder. "Do what you can for him." He knew she too would want to cure him, though he spoke the words all the same, his tone much softer now he addressed Orchid over Leanne. Gaze would move once more from Orchid and Scorpion to look towards the stranger once more, still somewhat reluctant to trust or relax with her near, perhaps simply due to the severity of the moment and this desire to for once step up and protect his brother as Scorpion had always done for him throughout his childhood.

The dame had mostly been brooding around, her swollen belly a heavy weight for her to carry around. She was still not too far in, but her stomach had protruded enough that she got looks from everyone else. She was part of the pack, but she tried to keep as much distance from them as possible. It was only when Scorpion's howl sounded out that she perked her ears, taking note that something was not right. A whine slipped past her cream muzzle and she ran for the sound, ran to see what could be affecting him. There had been wild whispers of a sickness spreading through Alacritis, but she had believed them to be just rumors. Nevertheless she was worried, the emotion displaying itself in her violet eyes.

By the time Othello made it to the scene there were already quite a few wolves. There was Orchid, and a strange male and female. The male smelled of Covari, so she wasn't too concerned. But the female, the way that she was standing by Scorpion made her hackles stand on end. She was about to growl when she finally took in Scorpion, how he was laying and the scent that hovered around him. No... Blood caked under his eyes, his beautiful golden eyes clouded and blurry. A sharp whine came from the mother to be and she trotted over to him. The dame was about to reach out, but hesitated. She so wanted to touch him, to comfort him, but the concern for their pups weighed on her mind. Taking in the other wolves around her, her ears lay flat against her skull in her unease. "What's going on here?" She asked, her vocals soft and full of worry.

The dame glanced over Scorpion, wanting to whine but swallowing the sound. He was supposed to be her protector, to watch over her. She didn't know what to do without him. Lifting a paw, she hovered it over his head, longing to touch him but something made her place it back down on the earth. Looking at Orchid, she licked the dame on the ear. They had seemed to grow a bit closer over the duration of her time here. "Can I help?"

Orchid was kneeling before her brother, concern etched into her expression. She was a silly carefree thing these days with her new job as healer within the pack. All of that washed away in the face of her fear for her brother. The wolves around here where crowding her, stressing her and she was just about ready to snap her jaws their way ? another thing that was far out of character for the timid little girl.



She was beyond stressed as she looked into the bloody eyes of her dearest boy, the only person in her world that truly made sense and mattered to her. A touch to her shoulder would make her realise she was shaking, and it would do something to calm her. She switched her gaze quickly to her other brother, her eyes meeting Sol's with a shaky smile of thanks before her attention returned to Scorpion's form.



Scorpion himself seemed unfocused, unable to fully grasp the situation as he told them about the 'slave' that she was for Orchid. Her brows furrowed and she made soft shushing noses as she moved her head closer to him. ?I'm going to give you some herbs Scorpion, and it would please me greatly if you ate them? she said softly.



Othello was next to intrude, she opened her fangs to warn the pregnant damn off, to yell at these wolves for crowding her as healer and her brother the one in need of her assistance. Instead, Othello would gently lick her ear and offer her assistance. ?Yes? she said quietly to the other, already knowing exactly what she would ask to get the woman who cared her brothers children away from this sickness before she could endanger her young, and it was something that orchid actually needed. ?Get Vi, ask her if she can meet us at Scorpions den ? she's seen this before and I have not? Despite the soft tones she scowled at her own reminder that she was out of her depths here ? she hated that. She stuck her nose into the little leaf twirled into her coat and brought out some herbs, to boost his immune system and to make him more sleepy and at peace. She nuzzled his mouth gently and tried to feed them to him from her own tongue. Weather or not he accepted, she would then proceed to place herself beside her brother, her eyes flicking to her brother Sol, and their slave. ?One of you take his other side, we are taking him to our den? with two wolves holding him up even if he was totally out of it she was sure they could manage,

"Speech"

He could barely see orchids face through his clouded vision, however what he could see of her was starting to melt. "Oh, god, Orchid. Your face. Is melting." despite the awful feeling the sickness gave him Scorpion found himself laughing at the concept. It was a creepy breathless laugh from a wolf crying blood. But it was totally a laugh. He'd support the weight of his head, bringing it up so he could look at his sister better. He'd look to where the other voices were coming from. Suddenly there were three more Orchids. "Orchid, why do you have so many twins." too much exertion would cause him to fall back to his sister's paws. She would move his mouth, somehow with her melting face, and he was suddenly chewing. He didn't have any idea what it could be but it tasted fancy. "Orchid, this tastes amazing..."?

"Scorpion Speech"
"Othello Speech"

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Soliloquy was swift to tense again as another stranger arrived, these people should all just leave his brother alone and allow Orchid to make him better. Upon scenting the female however he would halt the low growl that had begun to start realising that she apparently knew Scorpion rather well. He would keep his mouth shut, although he still wasn't overly happy about this crowd that they seemed to be gathering. He would watch warily as the pregnant stranger would lick his sister's ear though as the action appeared not to bother his sister he would once more remain the watchful guard over the healer and his sick brother. Orchid was in charge of the situation but it was Soliloquy that would be in charge of their safety, making sure nothing else happened to his family. The pregnant wolf would soon be sent off however leaving Soliloquy with one less thing to worry about, though fortunately it appeared that this Leanne had learnt her lesson and wasn't bothering to interject with anything else. He remained silent, observing Orchid as she set about feeding Scorpion more herbs. From her own worry he too would be concerned about the situation though certainly say nothing to suggest it. Without even waiting to see what Leanne would do, Soliloquy moved to his brother's other side upon Orchid's request and help Scorpion back to the den.