Blood of the Earth [Jupiter!]

Aurielle’s eyes swung back to Jupiter as he admitted that his own mother and his siblings were missing. There was a moment of sadness, and a thought that she ought to see if he wanted a place to stay for a while, but she thought there was a faint whiff of an adult male on his scent, so maybe he da was taking care of him.

“I’m sorry… It’s not easy at all.” She paused, adding, “I’ve only ever had one sibling—my brother, Aramis.”

Her eyes turned back to the seething river, head cocking as she mused. If only there was a way to hold her mane back to keep it from getting singed. She knew from experience how flammable fur was.

Even so, she gave herself over with a smile to the boy’s eagerness for throwing things into the river. She spotted a rock that was a good distance from the heat and padded over to it, snatching it in her jaws and giving her head a hard toss, sending the stone flying. She watched the rock drop into the roiling blood of the earth and stared on in fascination as the rock caused a miniature eruption.

Bits of burning hot lava went flying, and she danced nimbly aside as one came quite close to nabbing her. But her eyes didn’t leave the rock which had quickly become a part of the river. “If we could put stuff like this on the wall of Celestial, other packs wouldn’t dare to attack us.”

A pause, as her head cocked thoughtfully, mind mulling over ideas. “D’ya think it’s possible to make something out of this stuff?”

She posed the question to Jupiter as though he were an adult, and, in any case, he looked to be in the last stages of pup-hood.

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