Getting used to single life outside the den was a bit difficult. Kefka had left her alone with the pink lady before while he was off doing his adult duties, but now that she was even just a bit older and the lady was no longer around, she had most of the day to do whatever she wanted. It probably wasn't the best idea to let a young pup wander around free, but Relm saw herself an obedient little girl and wouldn't go off wandering too far. Even though the pink lady wasn't very social or even much alive to that matter, Relm was finding herself lonely in their new home. It must have just been the lack of breathing around her. She'd find herself wandering around the dim forest as if there was something new for her to find. This place was much more boring than back at home. At least she could chase fireflies. Here it was like looking at the same old tree all around and she was actually getting clearly aggravated, stomping around in circles even. How long would it be until Kefka came back or there was someone around to talk to? Walk "Talk" Think

Kichi was getting very talented at escaping the watchful eye of Lurid’s polar bear and giving himself time to roam as he liked.  Kichi was approximately six months old.  Truth was all he really had to do was run off and leave the bear with its lurching gait behind, but that would have been too easy.  Kichi made a game instead out of the bear not seeing where he went nor being able to easily follow a scent.  The grey and white pup was getting quite good at making it hard to follow him.  All in the name of fun, and disliking the bear. Where was Lurid? Where was Alastor?  They had both been gone longer than Kichi had expected and while he could have fun when focused on a task the moment his mid was given the freedom to ponder he felt worry creeping in.  What if they didn’t come back?  His parents had died, what if Lurid and Al had now as well? No, they wouldn’t.  They were just taking a super long for some other reason. Kichi had no cat claws for climbing but he sure spent a lot of time around trees and too much time with just a bear for company.  So he had also taken trying to run up a tree to entertain himself.  If the tree had any amount of an angle to it the young pup was getting good at charging up with a straight run and leaping technique.  So it was he had found a tree that was indeed tilted to a degree, large roots sticking out as a crevice for small animals to hide in. A few lunging strides and he made it to a brunch.  Maybe he would surprise Lurid when she finally came back and jump down on her from a tree!  He’d have to ask Al to help make sure she got near one Kichi could get upon. Front up in the tree he spotted something unexpected.  Another wolf pup?  Kichi had no experience with other pups so this was something interesting for sure.  He was torn between excitement, wariness, and a general sense of not knowing how to feel about it.  “Hey there!”  Kichi called out deciding he’d worry about that after meeting her.  Glancing down he wrinkled his nose a bit.  Getting up was a lot easier than getting down.  Paws splayed out as far as they could he tried to slowly walk down but ended up rolling down with an ‘oof’ sound at the bottom.  The tree got a glare before he shook his coat out to look in the direction where he’d seen her.  The view had been much better in the tree. "Speech" Think

Relm would be completely unaware of the young boy up in the trees until he spoke, her body coming to an immediate halt as she came to attention with a squint in her eyes to look around. Suddenly looking for something among the trees wasn't so boring, but still she was having trouble with her one eyed vision as she spun around, all the numbers of trees around her overwhelming. Not to say he was blending in with the trees, but he certainly wasn't anything like herself. The only other wolf she had met that wasn't pink was the glimmering white lady with pretty eyes, and therefore anyone that didn't look like her or daddy was weird. She'd look up at him upon the roots as he made his way down, her head cocked as she took a few steps forward towards him. "How'd you get up there?" Whether he came all the way down or not yet, she would go put her paws up on the roots, still far too tall for her to just pull herself up on. though if she got a running start like he did with other trees, perhaps she could muster the balance on top. For now, Kichi was a good size bigger than her only because of their slight age difference. But one day, she would in fact tower over him. Maybe not tower but at least to the difference they were now. Walk "Talk" Think

If only he got down as gracefully as he got up there.  Standing up from where he landed in a heap the pup shook out his coat and a few twigs that had found their way in it. “How? I climbed of course.” Looking back up the tree with her, his tail made a slow wag. “I chose this one on purpose, see? It’s a little bit angled.  All you need is enough speed, push off hard with your hind legs, that’s where all the power has to come from.” Kichi hadn’t exactly learned fast but it had been a thing to do when bored and relatively alone.  “It’s also easier to find one with extra paw holds, you know anything sticking out even a little to grip.” With that explanation out of the way he took another look at her, “You um, you’re so pink?” She looked weird to him but that seemed rude to say so labeling her color was the best he could come up with.  “Do you know other pink wolves?” As Kichi thought about it he had only met a handful of wolves so maybe there were a lot of pink wolves in the world?  In the distance he heard an angry polar bear roaring. “oh, she found me,” the few words said with a resigned sigh. "Speech" Think

She'd listen as Kichi explained, though she wouldn't go to attempt. Maybe some other time or later. But his knowledge she was taking in for the books, as all new things peaked her interest even as her exhausted mind came across the overwhelming amount of different and new things the last couple weeks. Her paws would come down to face Kichi, her blind side tripping up slightly on uneven ground but she would regain her balance with ease and act like she hadn't even noticed. Kefka never seemed to point out when she would bump into him or other things, and so it wasn't something abnormal to her. "And you're so not pink." She may have come off as a little rude but not to her intentions. Just stating the fact though maybe a little insulted by his own observation. Not that she would hurt him for it. "My daddy and the other pink lady. But she's dead now." Blunt as a pup would be, but emotionless to her mother? Not that Kichi even knew that the pink lady was her mother but still. Just dead as a door nail as if death was something so minor in the big world. The sound of the polar bear made her fur rustle, but Kichi wasn't disturbed by it. Relm had in fact seen the bear when they met Lurid and him earlier. But she was surprisingly not that interested at least considering the bear was in the distance rather than in her face. The calmness of her company would rub off on her. If they weren't worried, then why should she be? Walk "Talk" Think

Kichi ignored, or at least didn’t comment on her trip-up but now being closer to her he noticed another oddity, “hey, your eyes look funny also.” Yes, they both seemed equally blunt on facts.  “Is that normal also? I don’t really know a lot of wolves.”  Maybe he was the odd one?  However he knew Al and Lurid also weren’t like that and there were two other strange wolves he had met that didn’t look like her either.   Kichi ignored the comment of dead.  He didn’t like the word ‘dead’ because it came with bad memories and he refused to ever focus on those memories. “So you’re all alone also? And you can ignore Ilyn.  The bear’s pretty dumb, it's supposed to watch me and gets upset if I leave it.  Ilyn’s too slow and too dumb to be any fun.”  An irritated glare was given to the bear as it was slowly growing larger as it got closer.  The bear really wasn't tall though, it was a miniature version of the real thing but of course since Kichi had never seen a real one - this seemed normal Kichi didn’t have experience getting to play or spend time leisurely talking with other pups.  The idea of another pup in front of him seemed great but also strange.  She was around his size, and he used to looking up to talk with another wolf, or they would be lying down while he did so.  With her, it was pretty even ground between them.  Who was tougher he wondered. "Speech" Think

Relm would look at him with a gentle squint and cock to her chin, "I don' know. Is it normal to have blue eyes?" Just like Kichi, Relm hadn't been around much of anything other than her parents and dead animals. She stayed in her den most of her life so she wouldn't have come across as flashy to a passer-byer at firefly lake. Kefka took care to keep her safe and now that Agria was gone, she was open to explore to big bright world. "You and Lure-id are the only wolves I know." She'd state, maybe even if it was to make him feel a little better knowing he wasn't the only sheltered one. If they tallied up everyone they knew, Kichi would win that match even if just by a little. All alone? Kichi and Relm would have very different opinions of their dead people. Maybe because Agria wasn't really a mother or known that way to Relm. Though through attachment to say Kefka, she would understand Kichi's feelings of loosing his own parents only if it ever happened to her. "I'm not alone, I have Daddy." Simple, though maybe Kichi could have thought that Kefka had taken in Relm as an orphan just like Lurid had to him. Though Relm was much more relatable to her father, Kichi could pass as Lurid's son if put off that way. Her gaze would follow Kichi's as he looked at the bear now in view, and though understanding he wasn't a threat, Relm easily noticed Kichi's annoyance toward the guardian and wouldn't hesitate to turn away ready to bolt, "Then what, we should run?" This time her tone was a little more playful. Relm as a youngster was usually pretty serious or sassy, but she knew how to have fun. Even if she herself had never played with another pup or another wolf for that matter either. Maybe they would end up the perfect pair of sheltered pups who got to run around all on their own and do what they wanted? Walk "Talk" Think

Kichi looked a bit confused at the pup having never really pondered the normal to the abnormal.  What had been in his little world till now was the normal and anything else was abnormal.  However, with how few he knew the pup realized his idea of normal could be very off.  After a moment he grinned, “you know what? I don’t know what’s normal I guess.  Maybe you and I are both special and that’s why we aren’t around other wolves much.”  It was as good of an answer as any to questions neither seemed to have answers too. One other wolf to her was ‘not alone.’  Technically it was true enough that he wasn’t alone if he had Lurid but that hadn’t really been what he had been getting at.  Two seemed kind of quiet also.  Once upon a time, even if only a short time, the numbers had been more.  It was having had it that made it seem worse Kichi guessed.  Oh well, he was mostly over it. Kichi watched the bear coming and considering her question on if they should run.  Technically he probably shouldn’t go much farther away but the idea of running farther just as Ilyn was closing in sounded fun.  He gave the pink girl a grin and nodded, “C’mon, lets go.” There was laughter in the voice as he turned to run away from the bear and grinned more viciously as he heard the bear’s growl of anger.  Overhead he heard the sound of mom’s buzzard, it still knew where he was. "Speech" Think