All In All It's Just Another Brick In the Wall

Ruga gives a small nod as Keahi promises not to reveal his secret, a little smile tugging at the corner of his lips before he lowers his paw and goes back to his work. He wasn't too far from being done with this trench so he tried to push through it and hurry to get it done. The cold dirt was not exactly pleasant to dig through and it made him wonder if they shouldn't have just dealt with not having these walls up until at least spring. As he was finishing Keahi began to speak again, starting to tell him about something called "malama aina" and he kept his ears turned toward her to listen while his sea foam gaze was fixed on the ground in front of him so he could make sure the trench he was digging didn't start going off course.

The more Keahi told him about her life on the islands and the group she used to live with the more it sounded like some kind of higher plane of responsibility and existence that he couldn't even really begin to imagine living himself. Most of his life was simply just making things work as he went and for the most part just looking out for himself. Sure, he had wolves occasionally that he gave a shit about and now that he had been living in Armada for some time now that was becoming a more permanent occurrence, but he couldn't say he had ever really considered the impact he had on the world or that he should even care about that sort of thing. Still, Keahi had a way of not making it sound like she was better than anyone else because she lived this way like some wolves he had come across did so he respected her for it.

By now he had finished digging the trench and he stepped out onto the ground around it and giving himself a small shake. Looking to where Keahi was working he saw her beginning to lay down the mortar with the next layer of stones at the ready and he walked over beside her, taking the job of laying the stone in place after she had put down a layer of the mortar, helping their wall building to go a bit faster. He knew it was his turn to continue their little game of personal facts and he paused for a bit while he tried to think of something good before finally sharing, "Can you believe my parents started teaching me how to do leather work before they taught me how to fight or hunt?" He chuckled softly, sliding another stone into place in the wall. "Sometimes I think they just had kids to have built in workers. Maybe my great grand parents or something had better intentions with all of it, but by the time it got to my generation it was only about making as many weapons and armor as possible and getting rich off of it." He sat another stone in place and scoffed, adding, "Their work was never as good as mine though because they didn't take the time on the pieces they made or put any creativity into it. I was always the one the alphas would ask for when they were commissioning something special. Sometimes I wonder whatever came of them after I left them and if they ever figured out that they were being fucking assholes with all of it." Glancing up at Keahi he grinned and said, "Pardon my language."

"Ruga Amanto"