Starting life over with family

Nine wolves? Kichi imagined being surrounded with a bunch of wolves staring at him, not a pleasant thought.  It also wasn’t realistic when he imagined it.  There was no reason to think a bunch of wolves in a band would encircle and stare at him.  Kichi’s first response to danger these days was to fight and if he couldn’t win to escape.  Being in a new sort of setting and both of those options not working was facing something Kichi was unsure about.  Regardless, what he did know is until now he hadn’t found any point in existence other than surviving to prove he could, to spite death, and for Torch.  No great reasons.

Kichi gave Torch a clear glare thinking ‘not now!’ before nodding to Manea, a twitch of a lip, “Torch, sorry.” A second of hesitation before adding meaningfully, “He’s my friend.”  Not just a little pet to sigh about if it died.  That was his friend to fight for should anyone try to harm him.  Torch had stuck by Kichi no matter how little fun the wolf had been at points and no matter how silly it seemed his little deer had earned his protective care.

Torch had looked back at Alastor’s shush, ears flicking before his head lowered to sniff in boredom at the ground.
Kichi was happy to follow Manea at the offer to show him around.  Taking action, moving about and getting information was easier to know how to respond to than idle chatter with a stranger.  Kichi’s head turned curiously about as he listened to her.  Just listening for a bit let Kichi lower his guard and not worry about saying something stupid.  When she mentioned to a ‘full-fledged pack’ Kichi imagined the number of wolves in his mind grow even more.  It was going to take time to get used to sharing his life with so many.  How often did they interact?  

“What are the pack’s values?” He knows how Al generally felt about things unless he’d changed in the last year but so far it didn’t seem that way.  What were her values?  Kichi could guess at what they were but clearly, he was ignorant on enough things might a swell sound like an idiot for a moment before ha made any bigger mistakes.  Kichi lacked any moral code to worry about the answer though, it was just needing to know what he was respecting.  The last question was easy though, “Yes,” then adding as an afterthought “please.  I want to stay here.”  ‘Please’ was a word he hadn’t used in a long long time nor many times at that.


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