,Wishing on a Shooting Star, :MB:

Ooc:| I HAVEEE to change Landen's name to Aladar. I cannot keep typing the name Landen without wanting to throw my computer. Landen was after a friend of mine who's NOT a friend and I just CANNOT keep writing his name, so sorry for the change but it HAS to happen...has to...

His eyes were trained on the beetle when the white female came up and looked at him. So this other fem was Exodus. She seemed so sad, and then this male he was still confused but knew him, and this white wolf... She was familiar, very familiar, even when she brushed her tongue on his face he remembered it. "I am not alone. I have so many friends, like this guy" he looked up at Rawbones, and then eyed her "And you, I remember your smells... I remember them so vividly" it was another one he remembered but couldn't place that caught him off guard, one that should be here...but she wasn't. He looked around more confused and then stood and walked up to Akiko and sat between her paws looking at the other two wolves. "Pack, what's a pack. Are you a pack, this is a pack, us four?" he smiled at them beeming with his smarts even if it was wrong. "I know a pack when I see one, this is a good pack" he smirked at his smarts again and waited for an answer from one of them.
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Exodus looked at the small black pup as he came forward to her conversation. "He's... getting so big" Rawbones would have known what she was going to say. He looked like their father... just like him though the eyes... she smiled down at the pup wanting to nuzzle the little guy when Akiko came in and spoke her name softly. "Akiko" she said kindly bowing her head to the now queen of Jabbar even if it was temporary. Exodus wasn't stupid she knew Damean would have kept Akiko at his side even with any mate, they had been best friends, the whole pack had been best friends to him. Oh how she wished he were here to guide them now... but he was here, and as the little pup spoke up she couldn't help but let her eyes line with tears.

"That's right, this is a pack, and between you and me this pack isn't the strongest ever, wait till you go home... you're going to be surrounded by the strongest wolves possible and nothing will harm you while they're around, and one day, when you get big and strong, you'll protect everyone you can just like they would for you or any one of their pack mates. But right here, this pack, is your friends too." she nudged him softly in the shoulder and pulled back looking at Akiko. "I know Crow went with Aladar* to go find the son that Legend had mentioned... the one who'll help you I guess. Blade and Petra are here... Rawbones of course. You. And I wont stay back there but I'll go to help with any aid I can, a battle or a healing I'll listen to whatever Petra has to say..." she smiled showing her alliance, however personal it was, with Jabbar.

Exodus let her eyes wander back to Rawbones when he spoke of only their allies here. "So true" she sighed and looked around at the few and knew of some she couldn't see helping the pack. "It's without question Rawbones. He may not have been my father as I hoped he would have, but his rulling was for me to be gone from those lands while he ruled... he no longer rules there and the filth of what's known to any wolf is there. If there are more then just who has stayed... Bloodeye, Zaiku. I haven't seen them there. I wonder if they stayed on his side, it's hard to tell. i'm half tempted to go to Muerta and speak with Akira asking where she stands, if she is to aid his darkness or stand beside Damean's strange thoughts and views of your own darkness." Exodus looked around still then her golden eyes fell back on Rawbones.

"you never questioned him after he asked to take part in a treaty with Midnight Meadows and I thank you... I just wonder why Damean wanted to make peace with all the packs... As if he didn't feel the difference between the light and the dark anymore, if there was no point like his old homes he used to tell Legend and I about so long ago when we were curious pups. I feel older thinking about those times. For Jaded wasn't 'mother' yet and Akiko was still...steady, she seems so upset and so content of finding his killer... I hope she does, I know it wont bring him back but he's back here already, only in a smaller form...

OOc:|| I just really wanna play him =(
Bic:|| His black nose poked out from the den, it was colder in this room, crisper even. His little eyes had to adjust to the light and while he did so the smells all over him tickled his nose. A couple were familiar. Two was strong enough though he wanted to go to them right away. He gave a soft bark and pushed himself more into the light. "Woah..." his little husky pup voice broke out as his eyes found themselves watching the wolves infront of him. He smiled as he used his hind legs to push himself that last little bit from the den and wagged his tail as he looked up at a female right next to him. "You're huge!" He bark and ran around the front of her looking up. "I didn't know there could be so many" he was bored in the den and this...this was fun! "And did you see them!? look at all them!" he smiled and stuck his nose up taking a big wiff of the air. Someone familiar was close and he followed his nose quickly to the strong musky scent. He came upon a wolf, a male like him talking to a female. She had a soft voice and spoke of someone but his attention was more on this male. Why did he seem so familiar. He couldn't have known him from before but his whole instinct was to trust him. "Hi" he said softly, and looked up at the male placing himself between the female and him wanting his full attention. "Im um...well... not quite sure of that yet I didn't ask the lady and sir in the den they were talking about their girl pup when I snuck out" he now looked down as a beetle with a broken leg tried to hurry by them...

Ooc:|| Holy... Epica is not here...scratch that. It's just Exodus. I get them confused like that for some stupid reason...no Epica...
Bic:}}

Rodion felt his whole frame shiver as Zelda spoke of the cold. She was right. He bounded swiftly from the river and shook his pelt out violently, let one more shudder pass, then did his best to suppress his natural reaction to the bite of the chilling air. He smiled at her, putting on a face that seemed to affirm his manliness. He awaited her accompaniment and then made his way quickly to the den. The sooner they could warm up, the better. The bru was wordless, feeling his pulse beginning to speed up. For some reason the thought of them being alone was unorthodox and... oddly exciting. Standing at the mouth of the den, he motioned to it with his russet crown. "Ladies first," he offered politely. His tassel swished lightly as he waited for her entry, the cold becoming a part of the background as his body adjusted. A few spare leaves blew inside and his gaze followed, looking to the cozy dwelling waiting for them. It seemed so much more inviting than usual at a time like this.

OOC: BLAAAAH SHORT AND STUPID.

He grumbled a little. It was stuffy, the den was stuffy. "M...can I go outside?" he was just a little older then the other pup...would it be his sister? He wasn't too sure, he remembered hearing so much talk about his father dying, his mother dying, and he looked nothing like these two wolves he rested in the den with. He wanted the one wolf with the deep older voice. Names unknown, faces unknown, he only knew who rested within this den with him. "I wanna go...play?" it was a question, how strange, but he felt strange enough already. Again he tried to take a deep breath but the den felt too stuffy and he failed at it again.

Where was he? It would be just her luck she'd fall in love and he wouldn't return. Oh, how could she be so stupid. But, he couldn't get hurt and he was gone for a good reason too. Epica sat down, after pacing around for quite some time and looked at Blade and Petra. "You guys doing okay?" she had noticed with all the chaos going on, with all the turmoil and fear, pain and crying with just herself she hadn't taken the time to notice anyone elses feelings. Selfish she was at this point in time and now she needed to do what her father... even if he weren't her real father would have done. "Do you need anything? Even if it's to talk... And Petra... Blade... I'm glad you two finally found eachother. I remember as a pup watching you Petra. Heh, it's okay to talk about it now right? Now that you two are...together?" She was making conversation, another selfish thing to do but she had to... She had to keep her mind off Landen and where he was, and Crow was gone... And she had no idea where they were.

Ooc:|| If no one else will say it IIII will... "They're so cute!" hehehehe ^.^"

Rodion had just expected them to keep on walking, but before he knew it, a force was taking him down into the river. He let out a playful cry as he and Zelda fell into the waters. His head went under for a moment, and rising with a gasp, a laugh, beautifully carefree burst forth from his throat. He shook the water from his ears and swam towards her. He lashed out with his paws, sending a wave of the autumn-chilled water in her face. It felt so good to have these freedoms again. He was actually having... fun. It had literally been years since the las time he could recall such a thing. The cold water seeped deep into his bones. At first it tensed him, but he soon grew acclimated to its temperature and found the flow of the water rather relaxing. Though he prepared himself for Zelda's next onslaught, he was calm. Perhaps not yet fully at peace, but calm in the face of this newfound self.

He lunged forward through the slow water, grabbing at her with his own heavy paws. He tried to pull at her just as she had dragged him into the water, and was aiming for her scruff, though he couldn't quite reach. Rodion intended to dunk her under and turn the tides in his favor, but the bottom of the river gave beneath his paws and forced him forward instead. With an odd splash, the bru dipped forward and by no will of his own pressed his nose to hers. Immediately he recognized the situation and backed away with an awkward, bashful chuckle. He looked away at the scenery, down to his paws. He tried to keep her gaze for the briefest of seconds but couldn't bring himself to do it. Smiling sheepishly he focused on the water. "Umm..." 'Rodia you klutzy fool!' "Sorry..." He forced himself to look back up at her, and was caught in just staring again, intently, almost intensely, searching for a reaction.