Chapter 1

Fortunately, it didn't take much beyond his squirming to get the pup on top of him to scurry off, allowing Stolas to roll back to his paws and get up once more. With a quick shake and shimmy of his body, the dust and dirt fell free from his black and red galaxy of a coat, leaving him mostly cleaned off and unscathed. He had a couple scrapes on his legs, but it wasn't anything worse than he'd receive roughhousing with his siblings. Otherwise, he was wholly uninjured. The Abraxas-Destruction pup turned annoyed eyes back to the girl who was slightly taller than he was and watched while she hunkered herself over for some reason, making the boy tilt his head in confusion. She was a bizarre one, that was for sure. She apologized, offering an explanation that she was chasing her bird for stealing her food. Stolas was even more perplexed until he followed her silvery gaze up to the tree and saw the triumphant-looking bird happily munching away at something.

The girl asked if he was okay and Stolas simply looked over himself again before nodding his head. "Yeah, I think so," he replied, giving himself another little shimmy to make sure nothing hurt. His own self diagnostic complete, he looked over the girl who stood a couple inches taller than him. "Are you okay? You're not hurt, are you? You were running pretty fast." While the girl was making sure she was okay, Stolas glanced around and realized his own snack had been smushed in the trampling, leaving both pups without their food. He sighed and frowned, but was too pragmatic even at his young age to start crying over it.

"Um, would you like to go with me to get another snack? We can make sure your bird doesn't steal this one too." he offered the girl, motioning back towards the stall he'd gotten his friend dough from. He nodded to Plague's snow leopard, who began to follow alongside the boy while he started back towards the food stall. "How come you're standing like that?" asked the dark-furred pup, looking at the way the girl was hunkering herself over still. "It looks uncomfortable. Don't you wanna stand up?" Stolas wasn't put off by wolves that were taller than him. Every wolf was taller than him right now pretty much!

"Stolas Abraxas-Destruction"