His words affected her, he could see she was remembering something, comparing him to her father perhaps? The thought made him feel uncomfortable, he already had a hidden, selfish desire to wish these pups where his. Instead, his role to them was protector and mentor, and he was doing his best to achieve that.
He waited in silence well she worked through the emotion, and the decisions she had to make. “Very well, then” he said, and he started to walk, moving in one of the directions she had pointed out. He didn’t intend to go far, just a territory over, to give her a taste of independence and loneliness. “No, I'm all in, or all out. If I come with, its as your guard.” he warned her. She needed to know that he was not going to leave her alone, that was a risk he could not take. The world was chaotic enough as it was, anything could happen to the small pup out there.
He kept to a gentle pace, but it would be a brisk walk to Pesto’s much smaller legs as he led them towards Illusions Oasis. “Now, the first order of business is finding somewhere defensible and subtle, where are you going to sleep at night? You don't have an entire pack to keep you safe, so your choice of location is going to matter.”
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