Muddy Paws

is this really necessary...

Well shit. Now they were both here, and plotting to find him. He didn't dare peek over his hiding place, knowing that he would be dead meat if they spotted him. He knew that Mara would stop at nothing until he was once again covered in mud, even after she had dragged him through the ends of the world and every pit of dirty things that she could find. The more that they spoke though, the more that the boy realized that the fates had already spoken for him. Ears pressed back against his mottled head, he jutted his nose over the lip of the log to glance towards them, seeing that they were staring in his general direction. As far as Gus saw it, he had two options. Give up and submit to the mud bath that would come, or run for it. He wasn't familiar enough with his surroundings to know a good spot to head towards, and most things were covered in muck and mud. So even fewer choices, then. Great. With a mighty roll of his eyes, Astra stood and revealed himself. snorting loudly. "Alright alright, you can quit the dramatic act..." He whispered bitterly, refusing to move from his hollow stump just yet. If they dove for him now, he might actually have a chance to escape.

Raising his nose towards the sky, Gus kept a careful blue eye on his two siblings. While it was sort of nice to see Airikr again, he knew that the more of their littermates they found, the more fodder Mara had to drive him up the wall. Astra loved his twin dearly, but she was the reason why he hated most things dirty and gross. They would protect each other until the end, that he knew for sure, but she still sought out torture methods that she knew got under his skin. His eyes softened a bit as he glanced at her, but still dared to stick the tip of his tongue out at her. She was still mucky from their trek here, fresh mud already starting to crawl up her limbs. Gus had managed to clean off, and had every intention to stay that way...

Astralagus Adonis Adravendi