Practically Brothers

Walk | Talk | Think

Eirik had still been shying away from the other wolves of Covari, venturing into quiet places that they were either less likely to be or where they had already been and left. Eventually it would be expected of him to mingle, to join them in hunts, fights, training exercises, but for the time being he was more comfortable skirting around the edges of where they were and watching. They still intimidated him to a certain degree, still made him feel a little uncertain of himself and what he was about, but he could feel a new confidence, a desire to fit in and be known, growing the longer he stayed apart. Sooner rather than later he was going to venture out into the midst of them, for better or worse.

But today was not that day.

Today, he was still allowing himself time to get his bearings despite the fact he was probably well versed enough in this area to begin learning of places beyond. The pale grey boy was very lax on himself though, very much more so than his family, and he did not push further than he absolutely needed to. Which meant his dark paws walked a familiar path, his black-tipped ears listened to familiar sounds, and his rosy pink eyes stared off at sights he had already seen a few times before. Everything smelled distinctly of Covari, birds called faintly from the trees that grew beyond the fence line, and the strange, foreign structures of the Range jutted out of the ground in unnatural formations.

There was something unusual though. A little something, spotted, climbing around on stuff that Eirik thought, though he really did not know for certain, was not the sort of thing someone so young should be climbing around on. His paws slowed and then stopped, his head tilting curiously to one side as he watched and considered what he ought to do. Maybe letting the kid go on unsupervised would have been irresponsible, especially knowing that the kid's mother was his aunt - which also somehow made him his responsibility by relation. Eirik sighed, resigned, and then hurried forward calling out, "Sure you want to go that way?"