Testing the waters

He sighed and shook his head. Pups were always such a handful. He had almost no experience with pups as young as this. He didn't have to really take over caring for Actaea and Ignis until they were closer to a year old. The pup asked who he was, so the older warrior motioned for her to follow him away from the water where he would then sit down. "My name is Acere Praetor. One of Abaven's warriors," He looked the pup over. That nagging feeling about the pups parentage wouldn't go away. But it wouldn't be right for him to press a little girl like it was an interrogation. She was a child, after all. "What's your name, little one?" He lowered himself to his belly so he didn't seem to intimdating. He easily towered over her when he stood at his full height. And he didn't want to look scary .

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