Being not too horribly close with most of the pack spare for Inali, Nari, and Minka; Tokino spent most of his time either in the den or near the border. He tried to stay away from most of the pack members knowing full well what time of year was coming. Though he hadn't particularly been avoiding Minka knowing that it would be his duty to soon couple with the rusted she wolf. It was just circumstance that the gray male had not met up with her for some time. Instead he only scented tantalizing bits of her smell along the borders and along trails around the territory.

Now he was headed back to the den; his twitching nose ever noticing the strength of female scent drifting from the caverns towards him. All the females in the cave dwelling pack were coming into season, but the only scent he was worried about was that of Minka. Her scent had reached a richness that could only mean that she was at or near the peak of her time in season. His brain immediately registered the cloy scent and began to seek the position of the alpha female. The Lagina males instincts would keep him from deviating from this task even if prey should up right in front of him.

Arriving at the mouth of the cave Tokino emitted a low hungry growl. The female scents within the cave had his nerves on fire as the male let his tail instinctively stuck out above his fluffy hind end in excitement. That icy gaze of his scoured the cave searching for the queen, for his queen of the pack.

Narrowing his blue gaze upon her form at the back left end of the main caverns room, Tokino lumbered towards her his gait that of a hunter looking over its prey.

So you were here Miss Leigh...Good evening. Kino did not let up his ravenous stare as he took in her form. The pheromones she exuded and her acceptance of him at her side during their previous meeting had washed all of his submissiveness away. Now he stood tall and proud looking down at the beautiful younger female.

The hair along his hide bristled as a streak of electricity passed through at Minka's coy touch. He actually leaned against her side as she brushed passed him savoring the feel of the rusted woman while she slipped by.

Electric ice blue eyes trained on her absorbing every feature and emotion that might play across miss Leigh's face and body. Tokino knew about woman, but he didn't know this part about woman. He was going off of his instincts for the most part as the Lagina wolf eyed his prize. Never had he bred with another. Sad, but true of the older male. As he had strictly followed the rules of his fathers pack. Plus the only females around at that time had all been relatives or sisters.

So now the male fell silent watching Minka's mood and movements with a dark hunger in his gaze. The rusted alpha growled in what Kino thought was approval as she looked over his dominating stance. He echoed the woman with a deep rumbling growl of his own as he imagined her submitting to him before the final act. By her playfulness I think it may take some time to get to that point. He tried to make a handsome smile like he had in his youth at one time. However unless a female was into the rugged look the Lagina male's smile might not look so appetizing.

The second took a step forward to follow her allowing the leaders tail to graze his muzzle blasting him with her cloy scent. He took a big nose full of it and sighed as some strange form of excitement ran through his legs. Pulling up beside the rusty female, Kino attempted to run his muzzle and jaws over her shoulder to groom Minka. He paused cocking his ears sideways asking for her compliance to his will.

The silver male paused as Minka's muzzle swept passed his own. She tried grooming him from one damn awkward angle; craning her head sideways and backwards while his gray maw hovered over her shoulder. Then the siren moved away. Her chilling voice called out to him as Kino gladly followed Minka into the darkness of the cave. Once by her side the pair padded forward into the darkness.

The sounds of water dripping in some hidden tunnel chased the wolf pair as they traveled. Each stalactite and stalagmite watching from the shadows, listening to the sound of water drips and claws scraping against the floor. Great six foot wide limestone pillars stood within the largest rooms of the cavern defiantly holding up the earth above every wolf who called this place home. Surprisingly enough only a few bug eating bats lived in the cavern wolves tunnels. Their tiny squeaks and supersonic waves bounced around the wolves and stone as the tiny creatures flew about. A single bat lay near the roof of the tunnel watching the wolves pass by. Then a large cave spider skittered up the wall away from Tokino's large crushing paws.

The cave lived and breathed whether wolves declared it their home or not.

The pair descended into the farthest ends of the cavern towards the far off den area. The night was young for the gray and red pair. With plenty of time to fulfill every wish and dream to come.

(Fade out)