Do I make you proud?

Well, Azure hadn’t knocked him down, but he’d certainly given him a few new scars. The boy had started to climb him, but Siriud body-slammed his upper body into the earth, jostling Azure and knocking him free. Sirius misjudged it a little, and knocked the air out of the boy as well. Sometimes the Warlord forgot his own strength.

He gave Azure a moment to catch his breath, and clapped him on the back happily. “Very, very good Azure. You’ve learnt a lot I see” he complimented, blood dripping from the scraps Azure’s heavy bear-paws had left on him. As well as his spurs, and teeth. Azure was going to be a monster in battle when he was older.

“Your old man can still pull a few tricks over you however. How about we go get that deer, eh?”