Paradoxical Equivalence

Through the epidemic, Paradox and Paradoxus had been lucky enough not to get sick. Straying from pack lands even though they were surely the secret to finding their siblings - because the smell of blood and disease was strongest near high concentrations of wolves. It had been a terrible smell, and had scared him, because he could speed up the healing process of a wound and cure a cold or stomach ache but none of his abilities could fix something so malicious. He had been terrified of loosing his twin to the disease, and she was probably tired of his nagging to stay safe during that time. Of course, nagging her wasn't something that he wanted to do - he was just worried, worried for the both of them because they had finally found each other they couldn't loose each other to a powerful sickness.

It would be far too sad.

Once things seemed to pass, the two started the search again. A search that Paradoxus suspected never truly stopped for his twin. She never wandered far enough away from him that he couldn't follow, but some days he was left following quite the trail. Today was no different, but he was pausing his search for other members of the clan, in order to find water. Winter was here, which meant that it rained a bit more often in the West - but he didn't want a repeat of how he had found his sister to begin with. Once a day he would call her to him so they could drink something, finding water was something that he had gotten better at living in the west. Buildup trapped between and underneath rocks, sometimes some digging had to be done, and there were some tiny lakes when you searched hard enough for them.

The last time that he had come to Traveler's lake, it had been shortly after it rained, and it had been a good place to stop and rest. Today however, there had been a dry spell long enough for it to be nothing but a nasty buildup of mud. The brute frowned, sighing at their luck. Where would they go now? Dawdling off in his sister's assumed general direction - he would pause before he was just out of sight of the lake. He knew that scent...

Green eyes would turn toward where he had just left, and his legs would carry him toward the other at a sprint. Excitement would course through him, and a smile was on his face before he even laid eyes on the other brute. He barely recognized him, he smelled so much like a pack and... like the sickness that he and Paradoxus had avoided. "Jinxx?" He was worried now too to go along with the elation of finding a piece of his missing family - but he would saddle right up to the other brute despite him possibly being sick. It was the real reason that he had stopped himself from searching - along with the fear, he knew that he couldn't keep himself from his family if they were sick. He would have just ended up sick along with them.

"It really is you!" His voice wasn't loud despite the impromptu reunion, but his grin really said it all. It had been over a year since he had last seen the brute, and he was ecstatic. "I-" He had missed him, had wondered how he was doing every day he wasn't around. But words sort of failed him at times and... well, he was sure that Paradox could fill in the blanks for him because that was one of the things that the two of them did for each other without trying. "Paradox will be so happy to see you."