Embla cared not for her sister’s protests. She was going to get her up and they were going to explore. She wasn’t about to be denied this wish as she poked and prodded until at last she sees the icy blue eyes open up to meet her own aquamarine ones. Once that happened she knew she wasn’t going to be ignored. Walking away looking back once or twice to see if her brothers also stirred before climbing up the sloped entrance and heading out the door. She was ready to get going, find these ‘others’ that were mentioned and she clung too like she had the outside world when she was just the tender age of four weeks. Now she was much bigger much more independent and able to go further for longer though she knew that would grow more and more so over the next year. She couldn’t wait for the day she grew tall as her father or mother, when that day came she knew no one would be able to stop her from exploring as she pleased and even then she figured it wouldn’t be all that long. Thankfully it seemed her larger, elder, sister was quite happy to come along, it just took a little nudge to get her out of bed.

As Embla said that she was looking for the others only to be laughed at she stopped dead looking at her sister with narrowed eyes. ”Do you not hear them sister? Smell them? They are out there, perhaps some our size too hide somewhere over those mountains. Do you not wish to find them? Just because we haven’t seen them doesn’t mean they do not exist.” She says before whipping her form around again she almost sounded chiding that her sister be so narrow minded and blind, but then again she actually slept at night missing those howls and calls that echoed over the lands. They were not stories, she was sure of it. For if they were, were her parents simply appeared in the world like they were now? No, her father had mentioned his own mother and father though Embla hadn’t seen them it didn’t mean it didn’t exist.

It was then that she heard it, the howl and it was not her worrying mother or father that emitted the call. It was almost chilling to hear another in the day time, it was slightly far away though but Embla was certain it was another wolf out there. ”See?” Embla shot at her sister staring at her with her aquamarine eyes. ”Now lets go find them.” She said determinedly walking down the trail further. It wasn’t long then when she heard the paw steps stopping and keeping her dark ears perked forward in the direction of another. IT wasn’t mom or dad she was certain, they sounded… different, and the smell that came along with it was very strange too she couldn’t put her paw on its source or likeness at all. Then she saw him, huge like her parents were and dark in pelt she stared wide eyed in wonder at him. Finally another.

She could hardly conceal her excitement as the male stepped forward head low and tail waving behind him. This was probably the closest to puppy excitement Embla had been since her first exploration out of the den. Another! Another wolf she wondered how many were out there, here was one just how many more?

”Ye-I mean no! Who are you, where are you from? You smell strange, you are another like us right? Are there more? How many!?” She barraged ever so curious to everything there was about him all while skipping forward giving him another deep sniff. She didn’t know that there were boundaries with others just yet, that maybe it was best she didn’t get in the face of strangers, lessons to be learned in future but today she was just excited to find someone else.