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Training thread for Bane but all of Black Thorn Downs are welcome to join <3

Losing my sight, Losing my mind

Anstice Alexa

Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine

Rumors had reached her ears that she was to be training a young yearling who had joined recently named Bane and a small smile caught her face. It was finally something to do! The word had caught her on a good day, as she rotated between the good and the bad, and so she would rise from the communal den that day to eat and later call for the apprentice. She rushed out into the field as she traced the scent of rabbits across the field. She would narrow her eyes as she stalked the prey carefully before she leapt and landed on one. She bit it's neck to kill it before she sat down and continued to devour the beast. She would lick the blood off her muzzle and then groom her fur.

By that time it had already become standard routine to not have to worry about a son to take care of and it hurt to know that it wasn't true. She loved Abadeer more than he would ever know because he was taken at such a young age. A small sigh would be omitted before she rose onto her paws and called for @Bane though she made it clear that the entirety of the pack would be welcomed if they wished to join in the training session. She herself would be going for the guardian role when she found herself fit enough to take it. Who knew, perhaps she would challenge her way up to second too. She preferred not to make plans too far in advance because things could easily change, especially in her world.

She would fall back onto her haunches and her rump as she waited for the boy to present himself. It was barely past sunrise.

Bane Aranna had really not been in the pack lands for long, though from the first day when Inali had given him her tour, Bane made an appoint to know them and know them well. It was not hard, granted he had lived in the Thicket of Secrets all his life with the Blackberry Fields just as his back door. He traveled these lands time and time before they had been claimed by this new pack. He felt comfortable, having known the area well enough, even if not this very specific spot which he stayed now. When the majority of his time was not taken up scouting out the lands, he was hunting small game for himself, having yet eaten from the caches and having not yet slept in the communal den as he was being assessed as a new member. He wanted them to know him, understand him and trust him firstly. Besides, being grown as a single child to a single parent who was barely around, the male had grown to be more or less alone and was far used to his space.

Now, he was being called. It was likely that this was the woman he had more or less been 'assigned' to, though had not sought her out until she was ready for him. He came then, instantly moving into her direction until the tall, stream-line male made his presence known before her. He pauses, keeping his distance before the stranger though his body posture is relaxed and a small wave of his tail is offered in silent greeting.

Losing my sight, Losing my mind

Anstice Alexa

Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine

She had to admit that her pupil was punctual as he arrived before her in silence. She analyzed him to determine beforehand what he might be made of. He was smaller than her but still a decent size while his posture was relaxed, something that would need to be changed. There was nothing relaxing about this training scenario. She would click her tongue as it ran over her teeth. Her eyes were concentrated of examining him before she finally spoke. "You must be Bane. I'm Anstice and I will be your mentor, instructor, whatever it is you want to call me." She told him as she rose onto her paws. "We're going to start out with something simple. Show me your best snarl because often times snarls are the most effective way to startle a wolf at the borders, especially if they do not know you are there beforehand." She told him as she awaited his reactions to her commands.

Bane's fur was a deep brown color, one that reminded her of Delilah though she tried not to dwell on it. He was almost like an exact copy of what Anstice's daughter would have turned out to be like, or so she would like to think, except he was smaller than Delilah would have been given that both her parents had been large wolves. Anstice missed them both dearly, her beloved children. Some things were not meant to be and she had begun to accept it though she found it had not to think about it sometimes.

She assessing of him was made clear as her eyes, intense upon his being watched him and he watched her. She was older then him, though not by much. He had thought for some reason his mentor would be much more into their adult years but he did not allow this to shape what she was cable of doing. She was larger then him, large in fact for a wolf in general and surely capable of taking someone down or taking a beating in tow. Bane himself was a tall wolf, slim and lithe in figure. He could have easily chosen to stand at Inali's side as a fellow Scout, though found himself preferring to be closer to home even if once in a while he looked to explore. He was not an adventurer, by any means and though he was a silent, distant kind of man, it did not mean he did not enjoy having a home to call his own. Now, he would be learning to protect that home, with or without Ashton and Carys, who he had hoped would have joined him.

Anstice, after introducing herself and after Bane had nodded in agreement by confirming his name, made it clear that this was not going to be just a social call. It was work, it was training and given the fact that Bane wanted to be a Guardian within the ranks, he could only have assumed it would not be an easy task. His ears perked to her words, something that was meant to start out simple. For a moment he remained, lax, and thought about his times when he had run into less savory wolves or when Hollow was teaching him a thing or two about Guarding when he was much younger. After a moment, his head raises high and his ears perk forth directly. His hackles remain low and his tail relaxed behind him to show he was of no challenge to her, though her request still to be granted. Lips pull back in a silent snarl into her direction as his bright orange gaze locks upon her. After a moment, his jaws snap in false warning, a low, gurgled growl slipping from his throat.