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MUTE - AMUTAQ & ZETERI - LEVI'S SOUL- NONE TO LOVE - DEKU OF TAVIORA

Perhaps it was her mother’s more cynical side, or the fact that these wolves that he was killing had caused her soul personal harm. She did not see the evil in his deeds or that he was a monster in any sorts. Perhaps she would have felt more grief if it hadn’t been for the Monster of Asteraia scarring her Levi’s face, if Tobias hadn’t come multiple times to harm the forest wolves in her life alone. She could however empathize with Dexter, knowing that his family found all life to be precious, that he too likely felt the same yet maybe that made her a bit of a monster herself. After all her grandfather had been Devil May Cry, but Tuari never heard of him being a monster or a bad wolf. Perhaps a bit ruthless but that was all she really gleaned from her mother’s short stories of her childhood and being around him. Not too much more than that. Kiska was the grandparent from her maternal side that she knew the best, but she had been there for a while for her birth and beyond that even. She didn’t know too much about Brooke or Amorak, beyond how normal they had been. Their family’s were fairly different in many ways. Tuari though wouldn’t accept that he was a monster.

Her ears flicked back and again she gave a little shake of her head. She felt a little ashamed of herself for thinking they deserved it, but… didn’t they? They hurt so many others, and she wish she could express how many lives he was helping, that he should look at the good he’s doing rather than the act itself is bad. Perhaps there was more to it that she understood. Still though she didn’t know what it was. She lifted her black paw touching it too his chest over his heart. ”A light monster, to kill a dark monster.” she mouths to him, compromising slightly perhaps in what he wanted to say. He wasn’t evil… maybe he was a killer, but he didn’t do it wolves who were innocent. They were covered in innocent blood… and while it maybe was wrong to kill another wolf he was doing so with more pure intentions.

Her orange and green eyes met with his own light green orbs almost daring him to challenge her statement. Whatever he thought of himself, monster or not she would not be having him think he was on the same level as those cannibals and demons he was slaying. She was happy he told her, perhaps what he was doing was not wholly right but she really believed it wasn’t wrong either. At the very least she understood why he didn’t want to share in this knowledge with many others. His secret would be taken to the grave. That at least she could promise him.

Now that that was aside she wanted to make sure he felt better. She just wanted to make sure he knew someone was there for him. If he went missing she would be the first to hunt him down to be sure he was safe. What she didn’t expect was to be pulled into a full hug. It wasn’t unwelcome, she nestled her head in slightly happy that he seemed to understand she cared, and she knew he did too. She felt his tense body relax to her touch his scent was thick and musty like most males, this close perhaps she could smell the soft touch of iron, as well as the faint odor of herbs and Taviora naturally. It fit him and relaxed her too slightly but as he spoke she felt herself fully melt away. She was happy he had no idea how happy he was making her after being lost so long in the dark of losing Levi. She didn’t want to let go, of it so she nodded fervently into his neck hopefully he understood the feelings were mutual, but she was pretty certain he would.

After another moment she pulled away her white nipped tail waving lightly behind her, a smile on her black maw. Her lesson on trees for the moment was forgotten, as she looked him over again just smiling cheerfully before her whole body jolted as she remembered what she had been doing before she started looking around again for her original quarry before they got sidetracked. Though she was happy with where said path went she still felt better than she had in years yet she wanted to be sure she taught him.

She quickly bounced at him, bumping her black shoulder shoulder to his before playfully taking off as if she was running after a deer. She wasn’t quick to leave him in the dust even though her hunters form allowed her the great agility to race through the forest for a time. She looked over her shoulder once or twice, golden underlined eyes setting on him for a moment before setting back forward and resuming her search. Tuari was almost bouncing as she searched for the perfect learning spot until she finally spotted it. Skidding to a halt on her golden back feet and looping around to a tree she passed.

She ran dead for it seeing how it leaned just about 70 degrees to the side before running up it and to a rather thick branch to the side several feet up. That was kids play really, but for a beginner it would be a decent first challenge. The angle would help him climb, the lower thick branch a good first balancing teacher. She didn’t wait on the lower branch too long before climbing onto a slightly narrower, higher branch watching him teasingly. She would jump down and show him as many times as he wanted but she knew it would just take getting used too. Running up something like a tree was not natural or easy and only her family seemed to have this skill, but she wanted him to know it, it would be helpful and he imparted his secrets to her, this was her family’s trick to him.

Tuari