Bittersweet

The quiet tread of approaching paws pulled Pyrrhic from his project. He lifted his head and quietly pinned the work in progress spear to the ground as he waited for whoever was approaching to come into view. When he saw her Pyrrhic was surprised. He didn't think he'd ever spent much time with this particular cousin. As far as he knew she was always off doing her own thing or perhaps training with her father who had no doubt instilled her with the family's values and trained her physically and mentally, in their ways. That's what he chalked their nearly non existent relationship up to, anyway, as his own childhood had been filled with such things. It struck him as perfectly reasonable - no, as all but guaranteed - that she had been raised the same way and only now as a yearling she was getting a chance to stretch her legs.

"Thalia, what a pleasant surprise." He glanced down at the spear he had been working on; one of many that would soon fill a pit trap. Perhaps he should now make an effort to get to know this cousin better. She wasn't like Iroh who had only the one parent to raise him and thus had needed more support outside of his immediately family as a child, no her two parents had made things different, but now, as an up-and-coming adult, Thalia was ready to find her place in their world and thus it was probably time for Pyrrhic to bring her into the fold. "Care to join me or do you have places to be?"