"Eros..." Modesto breathes the boy's name in a whispered coo as she closes the distance between them, shifting and moving around waterlogged trunks and tall marshland grasses.

"You shouldn't be here." She spoke, pumpkin eyes looking over his agouti coat, well kept and clean had it not been for his trudging through the nasty lands between his home and her own. Healthy and already far larger then she had seen him last. There was few she missed at the bog, he was one of them. "Your father would be none too happy." Maybe not mad because he was here, but definally because he was here with her.

He was happy to see her, despite what he must have heard. Perhaps given his youth he was kept from all the details- details which Viorel must have given Sharlee with how quickly she had been to spat at her like she were some dirt on her paws. It was so very fickle, the loyalty and care family held for one another despite the years.

Eros ears fell back, unwilling to accept his father's wrath and yet spoke against being kept from his family all the same. Even if Viorel and Sharlee now hated her, it didn't mean he had to.

"Very well then." She spoke as matter-of-factly as he. The matter was settled. Modesto was both happy she had family to enjoy her time with as well as happy that some within his ranks defied him. "Your mother is a good match for my nephew, good genes." An Archer, was she? "Look how healthy and mighty you've grown already!"

She moves around him and as she does so, the ass-end of a rabbit hits her in the head and falls with a thump to the ground. "What on earth!?" Her head rises, looking around in complete confusion. "It's raining lunch on us!"

Modesto wagered she would never lie to the young boy. Perhaps bend the truth a little, but never lie. She would like others to know her side and to agree with her and once upon a time ago far more had, now, it was obvious less so given the fact that she no longer took part in her family’s pack- whatever had been left of it, that was. Eros didn't ask about what happened right now and so she did not tell.

A new generation had bloomed. Out with the old, in with the new! So Modesto figured she would be out then but loose ends, like seeing Eros again and seeing the man which he reminded her of, @Vayko, were of course on her list of things.

"Ah, maybe your right." She spoke, nosing and nipping at the young boy's ear in an acceptance of his former embrace. "How's about I take this rabbit back to my den then and I show you where I live now? I'm sure you'll enjoy it." Spending much of his life at the Backwater bog, Eros had yet to see a body of water so large before. It wasn't the sea, of course, but was the largest body of water in all the Lore (though she didn't quite know that yet) and had a beach. Best she could do for now.

"Not all that far. Just remember, when you cross through the forest and into the marsh here, just arc around the edge of it. Crossing through takes more time with all the muck. Either way you go around it you'll be in forest until you reach my place." She informed the youth and with that, picked up the half-rabbit and began making way and just in the same manner which she had explained.

After a time, she pauses, settling down the kill. "I wouldn't just disappear on you, Eros. That'd be wrong of me..." Her words trailed off, a grim expression pulling at the corners of her mouth. She'd now ruin the moment, not yet. Lifting back up the rabbit, she shoved playfully into the boy's shoulder and began picking up speed.