Bramble Falls Important Lessons

First, the young bryte seemed to have hard times to decide was she enemy or not. Reba stiffened her body, but then the brute chose to be friendly. Sighing quietly she relaxed again. Wagging and slightly laughing to the brutes humor she stepped few steps closer. <b>"Yeah, that's him"</b> shutting her mouth, she thought should she give the brute a longer explanation. She wasn't trying to excuse or anything, but he seemed to be curious. <b>"I... I don't get along with dominating pack wolves... I just don't now how should I behave..."</b> she said slowly, lowering her head and eyeing the brute. Would he now think that there was something wrong with her. But then, talking made her feel better, telling someone what had happened and trying to find out why. just would the brute be ready to do that?

Reba never tried to be what the otehr wolves wanted her to be. She was herslef in every situation, and she truly lacked the skills of conversation with dominant wolves. It was the reason to many of her problems. Also the fact that she didn't see them as problems. They were something much smaller, problems were if she was thirsty or hungry and couldn't eat, not if she had made someone mad or was injured. Injuries didn't slow her down, from her mother she had learned the skills of ignoring them, ignoring all injuries smaller than broken bones. They shall never been ignored, that could mean death. With the things she had learned and hadn't, Rebecca had survived this long. But on the edge of mental adulthood, she started to need something more, she wanted to learn the communication skills she didn't have. Maybe that brute could teach her? He was in pack so he must know them. Giving a hopeful look for him she took one small step closer.

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<blockquote>In all honesty, Kinis wasn't sure what to think when his guess of Indru was confirmed. On the one hand, he did want to remain impartial until the full story was revealed, but he didn't doubt his brother's judgement. Indru wouldn't have attacked her unless she deserved it.

The excuse which followed was a little confusing. Dominating pack wolves? Well, of course Indru was going to act superior in certain circumstances; he was a leader with children. However, Kinis didn't think his brother the arrogant sort, and in order for this female to have run afoul of Indru in authoritative mode... that left very few viable situations, and none of them in her favour. Just what had she done?

His instinct was actually to smile, as if it had been a slight joke, because who honestly doesn't know how to behave around someone above you? Even if you were hopeless at the nuances, the basics were surely obvious... but as he considered the facts laid out in front of him, and the awkwardness of the girl's manner in general, he found he could believe it. Eyeing her with a quirky smile, he said, <b>"Well, common sense always helps,"</b> as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, but then quickly moved on, thinking that perhaps she was simply lacking in that department. <b>"Y'know, 'cause if someone higher in the ranks than you is pissed, you just don't piss them off more. And being a leader trumps being a loner, sorry, it's just the way it goes."</b></blockquote>

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Rebecca felt uncomfortable. Everyone said, <i>'follow your heart'</i> or <i>'listen to your common sense'</i>. She assumed they were the same thing, common sense and heart to be listened, but yeah, she lacked the knowledge of listening them. Hard to follow something you're not sure excists. <b>"You mean Ruiko is higher rank than I, even that I don't have a rank, and when you do not piss them off more... I think I did. I'm good at that you know.</b> Rebecca said looking slightly confused and amused at the same time. You always learn something new don't you?

Looking at the brute she wondered how the situation should be fixed, or could it be fixed. Fixing things up was usually a lot of fun... Yay...

With confusing thoughts sprinting all over in her mind, Rebecca was unsure what to do next. Should she know? She didn't know. Great...

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<blockquote>Ruiko? Was she confused, or was he? When did she meet Ruiko? Suddenly, everything was getting more complicated. He was quite certain that he smelled Indru on her, right? It wasn't Ruiko who attacked her? But did her words imply that she had aggravated Ruiko too?

<b>"Wait, you... you know Ruiko? I thought we were talking about Indru?"</b> He blinked, his bemusement evident in his expression. But this was secondary to his knowledge goals - now adding irritating befuddlement to the mix made it harder to keep on track, so he just blurted it out. <b>"And what exactly did you do, anyway? Indru doesn't attack for no reason. But it was Indru, right?"</b></blockquote>

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OOC: Whoops... I always mess up with names... Hehe... Well, let's go like this.

<b>"Ehm, sorry, I meant Indru. I've met Ruiko too, but he was friendly. I pissed of Indru, the leader."</b> she said shaking her head. Ah, what a confusing life. But maybe it was better to stick with the right names?
This young fellow was staright. Reba assumed it was rude, but how could she tell? Wasn't she the one always making enemies on the side of friends? She was no one to tell what was rude and whatwas not. Whatever, but she wasn't happily telling what she had done. She wasn't quite sure herself either...

<b>"Well... I kinda walked to the boarder, and then I met Indru standing there in his all mightiness. So i went and lifted my tail as well as my head and tried to talk in some way. I was honest and I think that somehow pissed him off, so he told me to leave..."</b> Rebecca told with great amounts of hesitation, wriggling on her place, feeling extremely uncomrotable. She had jsut met this brute, and now she had to tell him something that potentially risked her life. Great.

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Hehe, it's fine, I wasn't sure if you meant Indru or Ruiko, but I knew that she had met Ruiko - so I figured it was a safe mistake for her to have made, in character! I hope you don't mind that I went with that <3

<blockquote>So she did know Ruiko - but of course she knew him, how could she have said his name otherwise? - but then it had been Indru she had fought. Or been attacked by. He wasn't really sure any more. When the explanation came, though, for the wound, Kinis had to stop himself from baulking; she had raised her nose to the leader of the lands she was walking on? Just what thought process came to that logical conclusion? Fighting to keep the bewilderment from his face, for he really thought that it wouldn't help matters (she had already admitted to being... bad with people, right?).

<b>"Erm..."</b> How to explain that Indru had been in the right without sounding too critical? <b>"Well, you know, he has kids in that pack, so I think it was fair enough that he act like that. Plus... he's leader... you don't go challenging them on their turf unless you're looking for something like that."</b> He gestured to the wound with his nose, the bizarreness of the situation affecting him with humour; suddenly; a wry smile touched his lips as he watched her, unable to comprehend her thought patterns. She didn't come off like a troublemaker - at least, not a deliberate, calculating one. Her obvious discomfort pointed to that. But a thought occurred to him, and he hazarded a guess as to the answer. <b>"You tend to get in trouble a lot?"</b></blockquote>

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OOC: Ah no, it's fine <3

Rebecca listened. This was new information to her. She started to feel like it shouldn't be. Thats he should know it, like everyone else. Too bad she didn't. how much more there was that she didn't had any clue of?

<b>"I really didn't know I shouldn't do so. To be honest, I had no idea what I should have done. So I copied him."</b> To proud wolf as Rebecca, pointing out your own ignorance was always a hard thing to make. So it were this time, and you could see ti from Reba's face and body. She didn't like it at all. But it needed to be done in some point, better to do it now so the torture would be over sooner.

Smiling drily and looking in the distance, past the young brute, Reba answered to his question: <b>"Yeah, I do. Not on purpose, at least not often."</b> Looking straightly to him she continued: <b>"It's a miracle I only have one scar, and even it didn't come from one of those... Adventures of mine."</b> Still smiling, this time looking amused and sad. Reba loved scars, she would be so happy if she could have the honor to carry some large and easily noticed, but she didn't have.

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<blockquote>It was beginning to make more sense, actually - if she didn't know how to act, then that she simply copied Indru was kinda understandable. It hadn't worked in her favour, but he at least could see why she had acted as she had.

With his curiosity mostly sated, at least the most hungry aspects, Kinis was finally able to pay attention to the girl's body language again, and was dismayed to find that she looked uncomfortable and shifty. He hadn't meant to make her feel bad, and scolded himself for his lack of sensitivity; she had been a fool but paid the price, so there was no point in berating her more. It seemed as though she at least understood that she had done the wrong thing. The 'at least, not often' part was of mild concern, but maybe she could be encouraged to change in that regard?

<b>"Well, here's to hoping you don't get any more,"</b> he said with an incline of the head, a more genuine, kind smile gracing his lips this time. <b>"I'm Kinis, by the way. What's your name?"</b></blockquote>

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Rebecca tilted her head. No more scars? Why not? Was this one more thing she couldn't quite understand? Thens he decided to leave it at least for now. If she could be friend with Kinis, she could ask more later on. Smiling she answered: <b>"Rebecca, Reba for short. Nice to meet you Kinis"</b>. Lowering her front body, Reba curtseyed playfully and giggled after standing up again. Tail wagging as she grinned to Kinis. <b>"So what are you doing here? At Falls?"</b> Rebecca had came for no great reasons, but it seemed like this could be a good place to do some fishing. Something positive, plus she ahd met a new wolf. Rough start,s he supposed, but they might be able to be friends.

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sorry for the wait <3

<blockquote>There was a name to remember, and he nodded his head deeply in response to her curtsey, amusement playing on his face. <b>"And you,"</b> he replied, not ungenuinely. From the evidence provided, she wasn't an enemy of Swift River so much as a casual irritation, and certainly there was nothing wrong with being cordial to her so long as she did not continue to pose a threat to the pack.

Not that it was to be his pack for long. The thought caused the boy a flash of guilt; it didn't mean he had to stop looking out for the family he was so connected to.

<b>"Just the fish,"</b> he said, glancing back to the water. <b>"I don't tend to do much these days but patrol and hunt, so I thought I'd try something at least a little different. It's been a while since I swam in something other than a river."</b> Always the river. It would be a relief to be free of it. <b>"What about you? You got a den out here?"</b></blockquote>

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