Turtleback Lake Follow the signs

@Aurek

The grey yearling had ventured a little further from the lake then usual. He figured if they were going to be staying by the lake which seemed the best idea with the heat a little scouting was necessary. They needed to find more places to look for for prey though camping out next to a water source was a good idea if he did say so himself.

Elyan was sure that Aurek was somewhere nearby, he hoped his companion was doing the same as him. They would get more done if the two of them were both working on this particular task.

As he sniffed around the area that he'd found himself in he found something to be off. There were faint scents of his father here and there. Elyan didn't think that could be right so shook it off and continued on.

Aurek had been doing his own little scouting, true enough, but fear of being mugged by coyotes had turned him around to chase after Elyan eventually after he had noticed relatively recent trail of them, perhaps less than day old. It could have very well been the same group they had encountered already before and if any of those particular bandits were around, they might hold certain notion of revenge over their lost comrade.

The pale boy had caught up with his friend pretty quick... as the two never separated too far from one another. Seeing his friend's rear was enough to calm Aurek's mind and the pale boy snuck after his friend, planning to bounce on him just for play, although not paying too much attention to stealth. There were punch of dry leafs and twigs that gave away his attempted approach. Damit....

It wasn't often that the pale healer made the rounds of the borders. His time was often spent collecting the plants and herbs for the cache or time in the medical den clearing out what wouldn't be used and organizing what could be. When he wasn't doing that he was preparing some to be dried so they could he stored over winter.

With the heat there wasn't much to be done in the way of collecting and he'd already done all of the work in the medical den multiple times. He needed to busy himself with other pack duties and a patrol seemed to be fitting enough.

A scent of coyote had caught his attention so he followed the trail which eventually went cold. The best he could discern was that they'd come to the border but turned around. It was when he lost the coyotes scent disappeared that he found another vaguely familiar scent and decided to follow it, he needed to know who it belonged to.

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He continued on finding the scents of other wolves so he could only assume that he was close to a pack. He hadn't found any borders which was good in his opinion. He didn't really want to run into a pack. Still it bothered him that he thought he'd found a few trips of his father and even some belonging to his mother. Had he finally found them after all of this time?

The yearling didn't have much time to think about that as his attention was drawn away from his task. The sound of rustling leaves and breaking twigs caused him to look behind him where he found his friend. “Following me again Aurek?” He asked with raised brow. “It's just as well, maybe between the two of us we can find something larger than a rabbit for dinner.” A nice fawn would do them well, they could each have their fill for once.

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Elyan noticed him. Aurek broke into boyish smile as his friend turned his gaze to look at him with a raised brow. Nothing suspicious here. The pale boy came to next to his friend and nudge his flank, while letting out a huff. "I wasn't following you. I just... found some fresh coyote tracks. We should propably remain together for now." -He suggested, at least until they were clear of imminent danger.

He had noticed he had caught Elyan in a midst of something interesting perhaps and thought to query about it. "You found anything? Saw you nosing the ground pretty closely just a moment ago."

He traveled away from the surge, down through the forest trying to stay on the scent trail that he'd found. It kept nagging in the back of his kind that he knew it but it had been so long and there were other scents mingled with it. That made it a little more difficult to place it in his memory of where he knew it from.

He wasn't sure how long he'd been following it he was so preoccupied by trying to figure the mystery out that he had to paid attention. He did know he wasn't too far from the surge. Through the trees his ears caught the voice of someone that he didn't recognize. The pale healer decided to get a little closer, maybe they were part of the keep pack poking around. If so he would need to report it to Lachesis

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Four coyotes appear from the shadows, posturing aggressively.

Elyan rolled his eyes when Aurek denied following him but he did believe that his friend finding fresh Coyote tracks. “We probably should since it's just the two of us again.” As far as the young Myrddin knew there wasn't anyone in the vicinity that could come to their aide of they came across coyotes again.

Of course Aurek's curiosity would spark up just when Elyan was starting to think he might have found his parents. He looked over at his pale friend, “Scents I haven't smelled since I was a pup,” he told his friend before looking back at the ground, “I think I might have found my parents,” he added in almost a whisper.

Of course all of that was interrupted by the appearance of not one but four coyotes. He and Aurek just couldn't catch a break.

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Aurek's ears perked up with interest upon hearing Elyan possibly finding trace of his parents. Aurek almost let out puppyish yip that was filled with excitement, the pale boy himself almost as keen on finding his companions parents as he himself was. "WHAT? really!?"

Just then did he notice that he had brought trouble with him, no less than four coyotes showing up behind him, already moving to circle in the boys with no good intentions no doupt. Aurek could not tell if this was the gang they had fought earlier or some other group but some of the coyotes clearly had murder in their eyes. Aurek moved closer to his friend to guard his flank while he bared his weapons. He was scared but he'd fight beside Elyan to the death if they had no way to escape. "Elyan, what do? Can we beat four.."

When he was able to get closer he didn't recognize either of the boy's but he could tell they didn't smell like pack wolves. That was good news, he didn't want to have to deal with Keep wolves. Now that he wasn't an alpha he preferred to leave the dramatics for others and live a peaceful life as a healer. He'd grown weary over the past months and just wanted quiet. Studying the pair a little longer something struck him about the dark coated one. It pulled at his memory as if something was trying to come forward.

That was all forgotten as he watched the two become surrounded by coyotes. Emrys hadn't dealt with them much but when he had he'd taken care of things. He wouldn't leave these two to be killed by the vermin as it was obvious they were outnumbered. Rushing into the scene he didn't waste time before he'd jumped on one of the lesser canines grasping the back of it's Beck between his jaws and shaking the creature before letting it go. That was enough for it as it ran away through the forest yelping.

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