Tayzeka
It had been a few days since her sister found that black box like thing on the tree. IT has caused Tayzeka to go around marking the territory especially around the weird contraption.
Starwhisper
Starscream had not been happy to learn about the strange box, and unlike his daughter, did not believe it was a turtle or anything living. He'd been certain it was human-made, given its unusually clean shape and odd texture. The alpha had made attempts to destroy the box, but his teeth could not puncture the resilient thing, so he resorted to marking the area vigorously along with his mate.
A few days later, Crow had found a second box on another tree, this one overlooking a stream a few miles from the first. It too resisted any attempts for destruction or removal, leaving Scream irked and slightly paranoid about the presence of humans. He had a healthy dislike for the two-leggers, and encouraged Kurok and the other adults to patrol the area more often to ensure there were no people in their lands.
It was roughly six days later when Starwhisper, working a patrol around the eastern border, stopped short when a scent caught her nose. There was a sharp note of lavender, and... something else? The wolfess tested the air again, but couldn't decide exactly what was reaching her nose. With the pack a bit riled by the boxes, she turned her muzzle up and gave a short, low howl to call attention to her nearest packmates.
Tayzeka
Tayzeka had been returning to Hulia, Crow and the pups when the call came. Crow Hulia, Fiera and Torek stay here with the pupsShe said.Kurok and Megatron with meShe said moving to join starwhisper and she smelled it to. She gave star time to join.I don't like it but we need ot find out what it isShe said and then with tail above her back she moved following the scent closely her ears twitching.
Kurok followed his sister closely his tail high but lower then hers and stars and stiff.
Megatron followed his parents.
Starscream & Others
"Be careful out there." Crow cautioned his alphas. The silver wolf had done his fair share of scent marking and patrolling in the past few days, being extra vigilant with so many little ones to look after. And with the alphas' young now partially under his care, Crow was keen on keeping them safe while this new incident was being checked out.
Starscream's tail was up as he departed with his mate, leaving them in the care of his elder daughter and the others. On this day, age didn't seem to wear the wolf down as his paws flew swiftly and without falter to carry him through the forest. Mile after mile he went without pause, until at last Starwhisper came into sight at the edge of a dying elm tree. Scream's rushed pace finally slowed, finally coming to a stop as he padded towards his daughter. "Did you find another box?"
Starwhisper didn't move away from beside the tree, her grizzled fur mingling with the striped bark that fell in great, curling patches from the deteriorating trunk. Her tail was stiff with uncertainty, and her expression carried a stark concern that carried over into her voice, "I think it's humans." Her gaze flashed between her parents and the beta, "I followed the scent, and I... came across something very strange."
Tayzeka
Tayzeka fur become rough at the mention of humans.we can't allow them any closer to the pupsShe said. Without any further a do she moved forward following the scent. Intending on dealing with these humans.
Kurok frowned at his sister and ran fater her .
Megatron followed his mother.
Starscream & Starwhisper
Starscream's fur was up as well, grizzled hackles standing on end in such a way that it appeared to nearly double the alpha's size. A snarl played on his lips as he pushed past his daughter and followed his mate through the last stand of shrubbery that stood between them and whatever Starwhisper had come across.
As the lead pair moved boldly forward, the reason for Starwhisper's anxiety became clear. A fourwheeler with a small trailer attached to the end was parked beneath the overhanging canopy of sprawling catalpa tree, at the edge of a pond. A small bag hung from a pine tree roughly fifteen feet in the air, and a tiny firepit had been dug nearby, the flames now gone and smothered in ash and dirt.
Starwhisper followed at a slower pace, pulling back to travel beside her brother as they all entered the little clearing by the pond. Having never seen a fourwheeler before, Whisper's eyes grew wide and she cricked her tail in an expression of uneasiness. "Megs... what in the world is that?" Her nose twitched and she glanced to the fire pit, whose smoke she could still smell, though it had been put out hours ago.
Tayzeka
Tayzeka tail high above her back she slunk toward the bag hanging in a tree. Her eyes up at it.where are they? Their stuff is here.. but I do not see themShe said. Were they heading toward the den site? She sent up a howl to tell Crow and hulia to get the pups below ground before continuing toward the site.
Megatron looked at thing approaching it. He made to bite the wheel. I don't knowHe said.
Starscream & Others
A faint, tantalizing odor of sweet bread and meat wafted from the bag, but at fifteen feet in the air, the package was out of the wolves immediate reach. With her nose up in the air, Tayzeka would also catch the scent of human as well, mixed in with the pungent lavender that had initially caught Starwhisper's attention...
Starscream added his howl to the mixture, his notes carrying in the peculiarly high, sharp note that had earned him his name as a young pup. Once the warning was given, the alpha circled warily around the ATV and inspected the small trailer hitched behind it. There were a few bags there, and two of those strange boxes that had been found on the trees in the past week. Scream gave a soft bark to his mate and offspring, "Look! These are human contraptions!" The snarl that had been showing soundlessly on his long muzzle now came alive in a rolling rumble.
Tayzeka
Tay leaped up trying to get it till Starscream called and she moved to inspect the things. She growled as she began trying to get into the trailer, the scent of human was strongest here. Were they in there?
Meg appraochedh is father and the contraptions.
Starscream & Starwhisper
Tayzeka's jaws snapped shut just a few feet short of the bag and its delicious smelling contents. It swayed lightly in the breeze, almost tauntingly, as the wolfess fell back to the earth, empty handed. The humans had been wise it seemed, keeping their leftovers out of reach of the hungry bears and wolves of the area.
As Tay approached the trailer, it would quickly become apparent that there were no humans in there at least. It was only a small trailer, and a flatbed with a few bags strapped on top of it. The scent of humans was strong however, strong enough to indicate that they must have been rummaging through the bags less than an hour before the wolves showed up.
Starscream wrinkled his nose at their scent, his anxiety and anger growing. In an act of spite, the alpha took hold of one of the bags and pulled it off the trailer, tugging out from underneath the strap meant to hold it down. He gave the bag a good shake, spilling an assortment of cans, vials, and plastic containers.
Starwhisper, meanwhile, had moved away from the trailer and was investigating the campsite. "I can smell them... but I can't quite follow their tracks."
Tayzeka
Starscream & Starwhisper
Taking a cue from his mate, Starscream marked one of the bags as well, promptly declaring the woven bag and its disrupted contents as his own, and no longer the human's property. It also helped to diminish their scent somehwhat, something that the grizzled old wolf was happy for.
While her father continued to dismantle the bags and their strange contents, Starwhisper was joining her brother in investigating the area around the campfire and beyond. It was clear the humans had stayed at least some time here, with their scent being particularly strong around the campfire. They were clever though - the two-leggers had used a powerfully scented lavender soap or lotion to mask most of their scent, making it difficult to get a solid track on them.
"There's no hunting dogs with them at least, that we would have picked up on by now." Whisper pointed out as she returned to the tree, where her nose kept leading her. "...wait, Megs... see that?" A bit of movement caught her eye, leading Starwhisper to crane her head back and look up as a single leaf fluttered down from the branches above. Something had moved up there, hadn't it?
Starscream & Starwhisper
Taking a cue from his mate, Starscream marked one of the bags as well, promptly declaring the woven bag and its disrupted contents as his own, and no longer the human's property. It also helped to diminish their scent somehwhat, something that the grizzled old wolf was happy for.
While her father continued to dismantle the bags and their strange contents, Starwhisper was joining her brother in investigating the area around the campfire and beyond. It was clear the humans had stayed at least some time here, with their scent being particularly strong around the campfire. They were clever though - the two-leggers had used a powerfully scented lavender soap or lotion to mask most of their scent, making it difficult to get a solid track on them.
"There's no hunting dogs with them at least, that we would have picked up on by now." Whisper pointed out as she returned to the tree, where her nose kept leading her. "...wait, Megs... see that?" A bit of movement caught her eye, leading Starwhisper to crane her head back and look up as a single leaf fluttered down from the branches above. Something had moved up there, hadn't it?
Megatron
He heard his sister and joined her at the tree. He placed his front legs on the trunk of it and stared up at it.
Tayzeka kept tearing apart bags and marking them till she noticed her older pups and moved to join them at the tree. Her tail above her back and her fur raised. it is possible that they are up there.She growled .
Starscream & Starwhisper
As more of the bags were torn open and strewn about, more human made objects fell out. Most were utterly foreign looking to the wolves, but two things quickly became apparent - there was no food in the bags, at least nothing that looked or smelled like food, and there were no guns present. Starscream eventually gave up his destruction of the contents and turned his attention to the tree with the others. With his tail arched high over his back, he stalked towards the tree and peered up through the many leaves and branches, "Odd, I didn't think humans were good at scaling trees. They certainly don't have the claws for it."
Whisper reared up against the trunk next, placing her front paws against the bark and swiveling her head this way and that. It would be Tayzeka who happened to be in just the right spot to be the first to see a human face peering back down at her from between the branches, roughly thirty feet above the ground.
Upon making eye contact with the alpha, the human made a few strange noises, quiet and somewhat high in note for what appeared to be a male. Starwhisper cocked an ear and froze, "Is... is that the noise humans make? What do you see, mom?" Starwhisper scooted around the trunk until she too spotted the man, a younger individual with soft brown hair.
Tayzeka
Tayzeka glared up at the human who locked eyes with her. Even if it was human it still sent a challenge through her whole body and she snarled at the human and its funny noises. She leaped up trying to get at him desite how far up he is. They were too close to her pups and her sisters pups, she couldn't have that. She had no intentions of leaving this tree till well she killed them, or they died from dehydration and starvation. She began cirlcing the tree. Her tail stiff as she glared u at the human trying to figure a way to get up at him. Why were these humans on her land?
Megatron came over shoving his sister to the side and staring up at the human. Can we eat him?He said.
Starscream, Starwhisper, & Human
This was the first time Starwhisper had gotten a good look at a human, and she found their appearance not too far from what her father had described of them. A face as bald as a buzzard's, and flatter than a cow pie. The nose reminded her of a bird's beak, and she mused how appropriate it was for the creature to be perched up in the tree like he was, even if Scream mentioned that they didn't have the claws to properly climb things. "Maybe if we can get him to fall down from there. He's up there pretty high." She murmured to her brother, half distracted as he tilted her head this way and that to better view the man.
Starscream was less interested in observing the fellow and more eager to get him out of their land and away from their young. With thoughts of their pups back at the den, he snarled up at the man and circled the tree angrily. "He'll have to come down sooner or later. But we need to keep a lookout - where there's one human, there's bound to be more. They're like hornets, if you make one angry, more are bound to show up." He watched as he mate leaped upwards, covering an impressive vertical length before falling back to the earth
A sudden flash of light stole Scream's attention, and his amber eyes darted back to the man. A look of horror crossed his features when he saw some strange contraption in the human's hands, pointed directly at Tayzeka. With a bark of alarm, he rushed at his mate, trying to tackle her out of the way...
Tayzeka
She snarled and blinked her eyes at the flash and was bowled over by her mate. She shook her head to clear her vision. Its the same contraption that on the treesShe grunted as she had gotten a good look at the thing in the males hands. She shook herself off and went back to the tree. She was not leaving this place till he was dead or gone.
Megatron began to sniff around again trying to find where the other humans might be.
Starscream & Starwhisper
Starscream attempted to stand protectively in front of Tayzeka while snarling up at the man in the tree, but Tay had figured out what was going on. With a shake, the wolfesses bypassed her mate and returned to the tree, followed close at heel by Scream. "Are you sure about that?" Hackles still up, he glared upwards at the camera pointed down at them, ears twitching at the faint 'click' sounds he was now hearing. She was right though, and the more he looked at it, the more he saw the resemblance between the lens, or the 'eyes', as Arora had interpreted last week.
Starwhisper had flinched and shied back when her father tackled their mother away, not sure what was going on. With Tay reacting as confidently as she did though, returning right back to the tree without an ounce of hesitation, Whisper quickly returned as well. "Mom, what's that thing do?"
While those three were busy concentrating on the man in the tree, Megatron finally stumbled across the second scent trail, leading away from the little clearing...
Tayzeka
Megatron sniffed the area for a moment before calling to his mother.i've got another sentHe said.
Tayzeka looked to her duaghter.I don't knowShe said and then looked to Megatron.Keep an eye on himShe said turning to go with her son to follow the new scent. Her tail still stiff.
Starscream & Starwhisper
A rumble reverberated through the wolf's chest as he stalked about the base of the tree, his eyes locked on the man above with his strange, clicking device. His gaze broke just long enough to acknowledge Megatron and his mate, "Be careful. I don't see a boomstick on this one, but humans always have them somewhere." After giving a nod to Tayzeka, his attention was back on the man, not about to let him escape.
Starwhisper joined her mother and brother, moving swiftly away from the tree and the small pond. The trail that Megatron had uncovered led them only about a quarter mile away before it too ended at the base of a tree, this one a dense pine that sprawled upwards nearly seventy feet. Starwhisper reared up and peered through the many sappy branches that whirled around the base of the trunk, and sure enough, a human was perched about a quarter of the way up, sitting awkwardly among the limbs. She had something in her hands, but Whisper couldn't quite get a good view of it...
Tayzeka
Tay tail remaiend in alpha position as she got to the tree and snarled up at hte human. to any who knew animals you could clearly tell Tay was a mother to young pups and well anyone smart enough knew better then to mess with a mother. She leaped up trying to get at the human. She then began circling the tree.
Megatron growled up at hte human.
Starscream, Starwhisper, Greg, & Karrie
The human looked a bit awkward in her perch, having scrambled up the tree when Greg first texted her that unhappy wolves had descended on the campsite. She kept her wits about her though, staying calm as Tayzeka made a bold but ultimately fruitless leap upwards to reach her. Shifting her grasp on one of the branches and adjusting her position, the woman aimed a small, tube-like object at Tayzeka and put the base of it to her mouth...
Starwhisper growled quietly in unison with her brother. The thing in the creature's hand looked like a shiny twig, and didn't cause any alarm in the wolf, but her ears did perk when the woman gave a sharp exhalation, and something tiny shot out of the barrel of the device. A tranquilizing dart flew through the air, straight for Tay's lower haunch....
Immediately after this, the woman was reaching into a zipped pouch at her side and pulling out a second dart to load...
Tayzeka
She snarled as she circled the tree and on her third time around she yelped as something pinched her haunch and she turned around to try and bite at the thing sticking out of her haunch. She snarled up at the women but was getting tired and soon was out cold.
Megatron snarled out when he heard his mother yelp and not long after collapse. He ran to her and nudged her.She still breathing normalhe whined and then ran at the tree again.
Starscream, Starwhisper, Greg, & Karrie
Starwhisper immediately darted to her mother's side at the yelp, giving her a quick look over before inspecting the dart that she'd pulled out. "Are you okay? What... is this thing? It looks like a giant hornet stinger or something." The wolfess looked upwards again, just in time to miss seeing the dart flying in her direction. It pegged her square on the shoulder and brought a startled flinch out of the fae. "Hey!" Whisper reared up against the trunk of the tree and barked at the woman, her hackles raised as she took offense to the slight discomfort in her shoulder.
The woman responded by grabbing another dart from her pouch, her hands quivering just a little as she did so. Starwhisper could smell the fear on her, and it gave her some measure of confidence. "I don't know, Megs. I hope this two legger doesn't have many more of those... Mom?" It wasn't until now that she realized Tayzeka had collapsed, and hastily backed away from the tree to nuzzle her mother. "What happened?"
With a huff of breath, a third dart was lobbed through the air, carefully aimed through the many branches that spiraled out between her and the wolves below. This particular dart was targeted for Megatron.
Tayzeka
Tayzeka had tried to stay awake but what ever was in that thing made her extremely tired and soon collapsed.
Megatron prodded his sleeping mother.She asleephe said and was abuot to turn around to go at the tree when one hit him and he sent up a howl before slowly collapsing by his mother.
Starscream & Others
The last thing Megatron saw was his panicked sister trying in vain to get he and their mother to stand back up, not understanding what was going on and fearing that they had been poisoned by the humans.
Back at the den site, Arora and Darling had convened with Hulia and the others to help keep an eye on the pups and ensure their safety. When Megatron's howl went up, she detected a worrying note of weakness in those otherwise powerful chords. She looked to her fellow packmates, "Kurok, I think we need to investigate... that didn't sound good."
With tense muscles, Crow was having a hard time keeping himself planted by the den. He wanted to rush to their aid, worried that they were in danger. He wouldn't abandon his mate and the many pups they needed his protection though, leaving the silver wolf to utter a single, anxious whine before speaking, "We haven't heard the boomsticks, or any hunting dogs." He looked down as Shrike squirmed between the safety of his father's front legs and peered wide-eyed in the direction of his uncle's howl. "But Arora's right, maybe you two ought to scope things out? See if they need any help? Something didn't sound right about Meg's howl."
Kurok
Kurok caught his nephews howl and stood up and howled back. Arora come with me everyone else remain here no matter whathe said and took off towards where Megatron and the others should be.
Megatron yawned before passing out. His breathing steady.
Tayzeka was still out.
torek stayed with the mother and pups.
Starscream & Others
"Right." Arora responded to her beta and leaped into action, following him in a swift run that left her ashen paws little more than a blur as they carried her through the forest.
Darling settled in a few feet from the den, and was soon joined by an anxious Piper. Giving the pup a soft, reassuring smile, she coaxed the youngster between her front paws and began to groom him. Stormrunner stayed closer to Tayzeka and Trogon, while Shrike and Hawk dealt with the tension by engaging in a round of wrestling.
The scene that met Kurok and Arora was far more quiet. They would first come across their alpha, laying sprawled on his side at the base of a young maple tree. Panic jolted through Arora, believing her father to be dead until she saw his sides rising and falling, "Father! Father?" She nudged him, and wrinkled her nose at the stench of human that clung to his pale fur. She couldn't smell any blood, but the old wolf failed to react to her nudge, giving not even so much as an ear twitch or eye flutter at her prodding.
"Humans, they've done something to him. Wait, what's this?" Her attention had been caught by a strange, beige collar that encircled Starscream's neck. She instinctively put her teeth to work against the foreign item, but whatever the collar was made from easily shrugged off even her keen fangs. "I don't like this, Kurok..." Realizing that her half siblings and alpha fae were nowhere to be scene, Arora raises her head and gives a soft bark for them.
The bark might have caught Starwhisper's attention, but like her father, the wolf was out cold. And though she had no collar around her neck, Tayzeka did.
Tayzeka
Kurok sniffed at Starscream and the collar. He peered around wondering where his sister was.Stay with him im going to find the other threeHe said and proceeded to follow their trail.When he found them the humans had done what ever it is they had done and seemingly vanished. He nudged star and megatron neither had anything on them but Tayzeka did. He went to his sister and nudged her gently.
That nudge seemed to stir Tay and she snarled in her half sleep as she started to come out of it.
Megatron was still out.
Starscream & Others
Anxiety clawing at her belly, Arora sat down beside her father. "Be careful, Kurok." With the scent of humans so strongly in the air still, mixed as it was with that pungent lavender odor, she too was beginning to wonder where the humans were. Had they left the area already?
Back at the pine tree, Starwhisper's eyes fluttered, but her senses were slow to return. She didn't yet know that Kurok had arrived on the scene, though she could vaguely hear rustling.
The only other think Kurok would find was the faintest scent of blood on his packmates, where the humans had taken blood samples from the unconscious wolves. A more thorough inspection of the area would find a third camera trap installed on a nearby tree. As for the humans themselves, they and their ATV were gone.
kurok
Kurok helped his sister up.easy sishe said calmly.They seem to be goneHe said as he then moved to help megatron up and then went to star.he saw the thing on the tree but ignored it once they were all up he lead the way back to star and arora.
Tayzeka got up with the help of her brother.GoodShe growled she felt the weight of what ever was on her neck. She followed her brother and moved to Starscream.
Megatron was still groggy but followe.
Starscream & Others
Starwhisper eventually stirred too, groggy but with it enough to get to her feet after a few attempts. Her ears planed out groggily at the sides of her head, and with her fur disheveled and tail hanging limply behind her, the wolf looked as though she'd just woken up for a week's long slumber.
"...you guys.. okay?" She murmured with one eye partially squinted as she found her focus a little off yet. Blinking a few times, she stumbled after her mother and brother, happy to see Kurok was with them now too. "..where'd the two-legger get to?"
By the time Kurok had roused the three and brought them back to the initial camp site, Starscream was already up, his expression sour and his groggy eyes narrow. They lifted when they saw his mate and children, and with a bit of effort and some staggering steps, the alpha padded forwards to meet them. "Tay!" He pressed his muzzle against her cheek, giving her a warm nuzzle.
Kurok
Kurok sat down when they got to the others. They needed to wait for them to wake up more.
Tay pressed her face to Starscream. why are we even alive? What are these things on our necks?She said.
Megatron licked at the spot that they had drawn blood from his leg.
Starscream & Others
Starscream closed his eyes for a moment, as much for the cloudiness that still clung in his mind as it was for the fear that he almost lost his family. The alpha drew his head back after a moment and looked upon the strange contraption that encircled his mate's neck, "I don't know. I've heard of thorns that can put wolves to sleep, but I've never come across them until now... I don't know why they used those instead of the boomsticks on us." Plopping down on his rump, Scream used a hind leg to scratch at the tracking device on his own neck, but it wouldn't budge. Rumbling in annoyance, he offered one possible explanation, "Do you think they're trying to make us.. pets? These things look like collars, and they use them on dogs."
That explanation made sense to Starwhisper, who nodded with a look of horror in her eyes. She'd never seen a collar or a pet dog before, but Cortinarri had told her stories about them. "But if you're pets, wouldn't they take you to their dens? Why leave you out here?" The thought of her parents tied up on ropes or being walked around town sent a shiver down Whisper's spine.
Tayzeka
She listened to them and then though about things. I heard rumor that they have collars that tell them where an animal is perhaps this is such a collar?She said.
Megatron nipped at the thing on his mother sneck.Does that mean they'll come back?He asks.
Kurok listens.
Starscream & Others
Arora's eyes widened at Tayzeka and Starwhisper's words. "Is that what collars are for? How does that even... how does that work?" She leaned her muzzle forward to sniff again at the ring of hardened plastic that encircled her father's neck, but the only scent that lingered there was the faint odor of human and lavender.
Starscream huffed quietly, "I don't know how it works, but mother says they have a strange language of shapes that they use their eyes to decode." He wasn't sure how to describe what 'reading' was, but it was yet another tale he'd learned from Cortinarri, and it sounded mystical enough to solve this conundrum. "Kind of like how we use our noses to learn things; they use their eyes instead. And they put those strange symbols on the collars."
While Starscream was referring more to the name tags that often accompanied pet collars, there was writing on the radio collars as well, a detail that Starwhisper was noting. "Look at this, Megs." Her nose hovered a few inches away from her mother's tracker, over a scrawling of words that her wolven mind could not understand. "But how does that tell the humans where you are? And what do we do if they come back, with more of those thorns?"
Tayzeka
She scratched at her neck and shook her head.I don't know, What do we do scream im worried they'll come back and take our pupsShe whined clearly distressed.
Megatron ears were back as he tried to make out what was on his mothers collar.
Kurok watched the surroundings.
Starscream & Others
"We need to check the trees around the den site first." Starscream replied, suddenly wishing his mother were here to help give him advice. She had more experience with humans than he did, and his lack of intimate knowledge of the two-leggers left him at a loss for how to protect his family right now. "If we find any of those box-things, we'll need to move the pups." He turned his gaze to Kurok then, "Kurok, I want you and Arora to do another boarder patrol and make sure those humans are gone from our land; if you come across any sign or scent of them, give a howl and don't engage them."
Starwhisper voiced her help next, "I can keep a tighter patrol around the den site. Or maybe look for an alternative den we can lead the pups to, if the humans do encroach too closely?" In the wolf's mind, evasion seemed to be the best response to these humans, even though they looked scrawny and easy to take down in a fight.
Arora was more inclined to try and fight the creatures, but she wasn't going to voice that opinion out loud right now. Instead, she nodded to her father and looked to their beta, "Ready when you are." Once they were alone, she would talk to Kurok and see if he shared her ideas.
Tayzeka
She stood up then and as Star finished giving instructions she took off running for the den site.
Kurok nodded to starscream as he stood up.Lets gohe said to her as he lead the way.
Megatron watched and then followed his mother.
Arora & Others
As the rest of them left, Arora jaunted up to Kurok, traveling a few paces from his side. With her ears tuned forward like a pair of radar, and her nose constantly sifting through passing scents, her eyes fixated on the beta. "Have you ever encountered a human yourself?" She asked, her voice low to avoid detection by anyone else. She glanced back over her shoulder once, just to make sure the rest of the pack had started back to the den sight.
Kurok
He searched the scents as he patroled.Yes, they weren't very nice and they actually killed the rest of our familyhe said.
Arora
Arora laced her ears back, "I'm sorry." She offered her condolences and went quiet for a few moments. Her mind slipped a little from the task at hand, with her nose not finding any fresh scent of the humans right away. After a few moments, the wolfess spoke again, "My dad... he wants us to hide and stay away from the humans. But... I think we should be more proactive." She knew it was risky bringing this up, but then again that's why she chose to wait until she was alone with Kurok to bring it up, so one one else would hear. "Kurok, I want to travel to the human's territory, and do to them what they've done to us."
Kurok
He listened to her. Your father is right. Its going on human land that got my pack killedhe said calmly. We can't, as of right now it seems rather harmless to us. These humans seem more like their trying to study us, for what end I don't now but we must just protect ourselves herehe said.
Arora
The wolfess frowned, going silent for a few moments after Kurok shot down her idea. The resolution was in her mind though, and the stubborn fae piped up moments later, "If we wait to act until they're already in our territory, harming us or worse, it's too late. I think we should show them not to mess with us." Not wanting to get into a full on argument with her beta, Arora was careful to keep her tones quiet and her tail hovering even with her back. "Maybe not going into their territory, you're right on that. But on the outskirts, wait for one to be off on their own and vulnerable?"
Kurok
He kept prowling the border.And stup t otheir level? We are better then humansHe said.
Arora
"I don't think it'd be stooping to their level." Arora posed, careful to watch for any signs of growing annoyance in Kurok that would warn her to back off the subject. The last thing she needed was for her father to find out what she had on her mind. She continued to followed after the beta, nose to the ground while her mind drifted elsewhere. Finding no fresh signs of the humans as they began to trek the border of their territory, she spoke again, "We'd be showing our might, giving them a reason to back off. It'd be no different than if another pack were harassing us - we wouldn't just tuck tail and hide from them, we'd show our teeth and give them reason to leave us alone."
Kurok
He sighed at her and shook his head as they got to the border. It is different with humans Arora, they have boom sticks, they don't even have to get close to us to kill us. I nor any one else in this pack would take that risk as it is a foolish riskHe understood her want but he would not be stupid and foolish. Let alone they had no clue where these humans lived in the first place.
Arora
With the sigh and the headshake, Arora knew Kurok would not be budging on his perspective. Her ears flattened for a moment and she stilled a sigh in her own lungs. "You're right, Kurok. It was a rather foolish suggestion." The words flowed easily enough from her mouth, but they did not align with the thoughts that still traveled in her mind. Arora resolved to find someone else who shared her views, but she knew she would have to be even more cautious about it.
Not wanting to further pester Kurok, Arora went silent as they continued to travel the border. Ultimately, they would come across no further scent or sign of human, aside from the marks of the fourwheeler where it had left their territory. The humans, it seemed, had been quick to retreat after they'd gotten the information they came here for.
Kurok
Kurok would have a talk with his sister and starscream. He kept sniffing and marking till he was positive they were safe then he made a be line for the dens.