Natu had taken him out last time they had a serious conversation. She wanted to help him, wanted to find his parents. She had been saying this all along of course but apparently now she had a plan to go with it. He hoped she would be successful, that friend of hers, apparently she was an assassin and could use what he knew to find them. He doubted it, as each season passed his memories grew foggier and foggier of his parents, he could barely picture their faces. There were few vague details like his father was missing an ear and an eye, he remembered that pretty well… his mother was grey and cream and her eyes were bright orange but that was all he remembered. Often she called his father ‘my shadow’ so he had a harder time remembering his name or her name for that matter.

He sighed knowing it was fruitless but at least it seemed she had a plan and was trying hard now. She also let him wander a bit further away now he still hid atop the mountain but he went further from the den and sometimes it was all day and part in the night when he would finally return to sleep. It was still early though and the boy had a full day of exploring the mountain. This freedom gave him a bit of life, he was eating better in the days since he was allowed his area to explore. He hadn’t really ran into anyone yet, not that he really wanted too, Natu’s den was pretty secluded and he wasn’t sure if he was grateful or not for it yet. Today that would change though.

As he moved over the rocks on his white paws he spotted the small golden girl struggling her way up the mountain. By now Sven had found his rock climbing paws and really he couldn’t believe someone that small could be doing this at all. His bright orange eyes watched her for sometime stopping at the rocky outcropping and clearly looking it over trying to figure out if she had the ability to climb it. He didn’t know what she wanted but she was all alone and so small. Where were her parents? Were they not afraid they would lose her? She was in the pack he supposed but still it worried him.

”Hey! What are you doing out here?” He called to the small girl feeling a little pang in his chest thinking that he was so small when he had been so heartlessly wretched from his family. Bigger than her slightly but soon enough she would be matching his size. Had he been so tiny then? It was crazy to think that he had been so small and helpless, sure he still sort of was but not that small. He closed the remaining distance between them, stopping just short of the small girl. He would take her back home or at least keep an eye on her if her parents were around. That would be the right thing to do, make sure she stayed safe and her parents wouldn’t have to suffer as his own did.