Shhh! Don't tell mom!

Walk | "Talk" | think

Rudy had already been given good advice from Resin on how to remain hidden so that made him pretty clever at this point, at least in his mind.  She was attempting to irritate his brother, and by the look of things, it was going to keep working.  This wouldn’t do. Rudy looked up at the numerous tree’s but didn’t see any that screamed to be plausible for any wolf, big or small, to climb up.  The ground was soft and as long as he avoided the water he should be able to walk quietly.  Resin had warned him about staying downwind, that had been his mistake when trying to sneak up on her.  His eyes skimmed the terrain and all of the numerous hiding spots.  The willows were great at providing pockets that would be hard to see through, except when the stupid wind blew them aside.

Rudy lowered his head appearing to be checking out some roots as he worked out his plan, brotherly revenge tactics.  There was one problem though, if he was too quick to save Art then his brother wouldn’t get a chance to prove he could stick up for himself.  It was just a bit of teasing but would Art be able to throw out the witticisms just as fast on his own?  She was pretty good at finding just the right spots to irk him.

Rudy was mulling over revenge and admitted part of this was just because it sounded fun.  The decision making came to an end when he heard his mom’s voice.  Busted.  Rudy’s other main flaw with being caught had been his tail and once again it acted on its own.  That sheepish guilty tail wag on spotting mom, the head partway lowered, and those big sad pup eyes looking up at her.  If you are going to be a troublemaker it's important to have an instinctive adorable guilty pup look.  Body a bit lower he slunk up to Tam, “I’m sorry mom, it's not Art’s fault though.  I tricked him into coming so I wouldn’t be alone.  So he wasn’t being bad, just me.” That questioning tone to see if she would graciously accept his explanation of guilt.

This was the wrong time to show it, but if he wasn’t working so hard on the guilty look he would have had a smug look on his face at Briar being called out.  Mom knew she wasn’t supposed to be out alone.  There went Briar’s little story of being allowed.  Now he had something to use against her if ever needed.  Did she want her parents to know she snuck off?