Her heavy build made her slower than most females but she still managed to keep a few steps ahead of the lumbering brute behind her, her laughter echoing through the trees, allowing him the occasional glance at her rear or flank but never allowing him close enough to catch her. She wanted him well worn out before she would allow him within striking distance again.

Finally she stumbled across a small clearing around a towering moss covered boulder. How it got to be there was any wolf's guess. It was tall, but had been worn by the weather, almost forming three steps to its peak, but it would take a strong jumper to reach the first. She was convinced she could make it and hooked her paws over the first lip, scrambling with her rear paws to push her bulk onto the relatively flat surface. The steps were smaller from here and she gracefully bounded to the top.

Looking down to the clearing at the base of her pedestal she sat back on her haunches and howled out in victory, forgetting how close to pack borders she was. To be honest she no longer cared. She longed for sight of her brother and flopped down to her stomach, her head hanging over the edge smiling down at her companion. She doubted with his size he would make the first step and her tail thumped in encouragement, waiting to see if he would attempt to reach her on her perch.

For some reason she still had energy to burn. The tawny female was restless. "Not really..." she responded with a cheeky glint in her eyes as she began to creep forward, her front legs hanging further over the edge as her rear continued to shuffle forwards. When her rear paws found purchase on the edge of the rock, her front half almost as vertical as the side of the her perch, she pushed, landing heavily on her front paws and sending a sharp jarring sensation through all four of her legs, but she wasn't seriously injured or deterred.

She shook her legs out, getting the last of the tingling painful sensation to fade away before looking up at the male who was still panting for breath. "Kano isn't all that bad you know..." she said conversationally with a small smile. "and he's not the type to snap unless he thinks you're threatening his family or making a challenge for his position. Maybe you just need to get to know him? Although if you really made him that mad...but you couldn't have, you still seem fairly intact." A smirk crossed her face. She had only seen her golden brother mad on one occasion, and then he had been a toothy clawing blur of fury that even Chulyin couldn't pin down. She doubted this male had made him that angry though, he was usually a fairly laid back kind of fellow.

She laughed at the males description. "Chulyin used to refer to him as a wounded wolverine when he was in a bad mood, but generally he'll back off once you submit. Don't let his size fool you. He bought our brother down more than once and he was a little larger than you."

The other wolf's demeanour suddenly changed, sucking the fun out of everything. "So who are Susku and Luki?" she asked calmly and quietly. She was grateful for her encounter with the sick female now. It would seem some of her new skills would need to be put to the test.

The emotional flood was a little too much for her initially but she managed to pull herself together. She couldn't imagine one of her siblings ever attacking their beloved parents. She settled down to wait while the other wolf rode is emotions out. Breathing deeply and evenly, hoping he would pick up on her calming signals and follow her lead. The quickest way to calm down was to focus on breathing and the surrounding area. It was getting late, and she knew she would need to be on her way shortly, but she couldn't leave him in this state.

Her ears flicked to ensure that nobody was approaching, her nose was working overtime. The last thing she needed was for someone to find her on the doorstep of her brothers pack.

Her eyes almost clouded over as she reminisced about her brother before he had left their home. "Kanosak is complex..." she admitted openly. "He was always sweet tempered unless we were under duress. It happened a few times a year, usually with the melting snows. There were more than 30 of us, so our territory was vast. It wasn't unheard of for us to need to push back two or three attempted invasions a season, not to mention the rogues..." It was the first time she had spoken openly of her family since leaving them. "Grandmother let our aunt bring a strange male to the pack, and he tried to tear us apart from the inside out. When his pack decided to make a push, he attacked and almost killed her, and she loved him so..."

She took a moment to centre herself. "Kano was the one to rip out his throat. We decimated them. Not even the yearlings were allowed to survive, but we weren't without our casualties. Eclipse was blinded in one eye, Luna lost an ear, and Midnight never walked right again. She couldn't hunt, couldn't patrol. If she hadn't payed so much attention to the healing lessons, she probably would have been driven out just like Maia..." Maia was another story all together, not one she had been alive to experience, as she was her fathers litter mate, but she was often held up as an example of what not to do if you wanted to remain as a member of the pack. "He had suspicions before but didn't act on them... he goes with his gut a lot of the time, and if you've given him reason to be suspicious it may take some time to work your way back into his good books...and he doesn't like rudeness." she said with a small smile. It wasn't impossible, but it would take a lot of work.

"I'm fine. I'm just thinking it's starting to get late." she admitted with a small smile.