Trouble Is My Middle Name~

Thorn was not one to go outside of pack land without permission and that meant having one of mom or dad's companions with him.  Thorn had his own companions of course, somewhere.  The fox had gone off to hunt and the cardinal had been busy showing off to the ladies of his own kind lately.  Thorn imagined the falcon far above might be his but it could be another wolf's, it was hard to tell when they were so high up.  They wouldn’t have met the stipulation of one of his parent's companions anyway and besides, Thorn wasn’t planning to leave the pack land at the moment.  At least, he hadn’t been until he caught Dusk’s scent along the edge of the land, heading into the garden.

Well, she probably had one of their parent's companions with her right?  Maybe but maybe not.  Well, if she did have one of their companions then there was no harm in Thorn going to see what she was doing.  Dusk had gone through a hole that Thorn found questionable for his own frame to squeeze through.  He’d been growing fast lately and getting stuck didn’t sound fun.  

Thorn gave up on speculating the hole with the intent to go back to where the wall allowed for entry but instead found a good spot where rocks and vines made climbing up and over the wall easy enough.  The leap down had Thorn stumble a stride, his teeth grit into the handle of his wooden sword.  Shaking out his coat he cast the wall a glance then jogged towards where the hole should be in the wall to pick up Dusk’s scent.

A nagging part of his mind warned him that right now he was neither with Dusk nor with his parent's animal companions.  How far away from the castle had she gone anyway?  He found Dusk’s scent well enough at the hole and started following it, noticing Dusks’ lengthened tracks.  Thorn went around some of the obstacles it looked like she had gone straight through.  A few branches had bits of black fur on them to show Dusk’s passing.

Finally, he heard some soft sounds ahead.  There was a thin scraping sound for just a moment and then another scraping sound.  A whistling sound of wire-slashing air came but Thorn had no concept of what the noise would be.  A flash of black was seen between the leaves of a brush and Thorn knew he’d found her. “Hey, Dusk!” Thorn charged forward, hopping over a downed tree to see what his sister was up to.  He saw something stuck in her tail but was more interested to see if any of her parents were companions with her.  

"Thorn Carpathius"