Easy pickings

Settling back into the ebb and flow of pack life had been easier than he expected. His days were mostly filled with patrols and assisting Kiela with her herd. He found himself thinking about her a lot lately. Perhaps it was because of their time spent traveling together before she brought him to Vidarr's pack call, and now that they had different chores his near constant companion wasn't so constant anymore. He doubted she was thinking about him any, but that wasn't what pushed the thought out of his mind.

No, it was the roar of a bear.

He wasn't exactly around the corner when he'd heard it, but he was fast despite the weight of his axe and rounded the corner of the volcano quickly to find a child damn near face to face with what was probably the largest grizzly he'd seen in these lands. He didn't know the pup, but did it matter? A child was a child, and he was pretty sure this one belonged to Heidinn, too. Approaching with a snarl and fur bristling, he jumped between the bear and the pup as he grabbed his axe and pulled it from it's holdings.

"Do you have a weapon?" He asked around the throat of the axe before swinging it between him and the bear, warning it to back off.

"Speech!"

Art by Siarczek at dA & Code by Skelle 2023