ma?

 It was easy to say that Vitus had not been expecting such a welcome, but then he should have. He really must have, Amalia was not one to hold any sort of grudges that he knew of. With a gentle smile he moved to nuzzle into her, tucking his nose into the gentle furs along the back of her neck and breathing in her comforting scent. Oh how he missed the warmth of his mothers. With a gentle sigh he smiled as she pulled back, his dual toned eyes glistening.  He missed them all, but they were all the reasons he had moved to work so hard on himself. Why he wanted to become the best he can be so he could protect them and do what he was born to do. His grin faulted just slightly when he scented his mother on the wind, and he slowly turned around to look at her. A sheepish grin crossed his boyish features, his ears tipping back just so. But she seemed to welcome home just as well as Amalia did.

With a gentle sigh he turned to embrace his mother aswell, to tuck his nose into her furs and breathe in her scent aswell. It was comforting, it helped him hold his ground and keep determined. Yet he pulled away from them both and smiled at both of them. "Trainin'" He said softly, his deepening voice almost hoarse with lack of use and his throat hurting. Why did people talk? This hurt! He lifted a paw to his mother then, Athena, a grin on his lips. "Or attemptin' to..." He whispered, clearing his throat and shaking his head a little. With a small shrug of his shoulders he settled for those few words, which were more than he had ever spoken in his life. The words were choppy, short, and he only spoke them to get the information out, and that was all. He shifted back to Athena to nudge her just so, a gentle grin on his lips as he noticed the mark on her haunch. He didn't know completely what it meant, but it had to be something important.

"Burn Baby Burn"