I could hear… something inside. Talking and chuckling and I couldn’t help but have my ears fall back in well I wasn’t sure what I was filling with, protectiveness I guess was the first thing I could think of. If I didn’t think growling was a nasty noise I might have allowed it to ripple from my throat though it would have been my initial reaction if I wouldn’t have saved the sound for anyone else but my most angry moments. I am not there. Yet. Though as I see a large black adult male emerge from the den that my sister seems to now call her own. Though I am quite normally serious male I am very much aware that currently my face holds no smile not even as the male greets me.

”Greetings.” I reply back my song like voice though a bit less energetic and soulful as normal. I look him over a sizable male with a strange face mark and I cannot tell his full age but I know he is older than Haven, probably an adult likely younger than me. Well he better hope so if he wishes to stay alive. I had been… worrying about such an ordeal befalling my kin and thus myself. I realize while I have not yet picked a female, after all I had two pups to raise when I was just in my fourth year who had time for mates? I shouldn’t expect the same for any of my sisters. But alas, I am still a big brother or father figure whichever suits me best for the day and today I will be both simultaneously. I don’t know which he would fear more, but fear me he must less I make it so he never has children.

Then I see her, the small cream and brown form of my ever growing sister emerging from the den looking at her as she cleared her throat and passed by the large point looking very… disheveled. Why did my dear sister look so messy with winter around the corner? My eyes run to him and I take a deep breath as she comes up towards me noticing the over abundance of his scent all over her fur, not to mention where it stuck together in places like saliva or… other misdeeds. I clear my throat and at this moment I can’t not even bring myself to smile, my eyes are on hers though and my tail flicks lightly as she asks how I have been doing before the first visible frown meets my face when she says she’s been… exploring.

”Your phrasing is poor.” I say looking at her as she gives me an all too innocent smile that I wasn’t falling for. ”Are you going to introduce me to your boyfriend? Or am I just going to have to assume him some Casanova I need to escort away from your den with my fangs?” My songlike voice is still there but the forest green of my gaze goes up to Hollowpoint then, if looks could kill even pass my mostly flat expression I expect he might of died where he stood. How was I to know that this was my sister’s imprint? I never seen him in my life, his smell is all over her, I just know my protectiveness is going into overdrive.