He was happy she found him, after everything that went on it was nice to see her still looking well. There wasn’t even any grey on her muzzle just yet too. It was still pristine black with the gold flecks he had inherited onto his own visage on her face. To him she had aged, but she surely hadn’t changed as much as he had in nearly four years. He leaned into her nuzzle, rubbing his own affectionately over her cheek, full brown tail waving lightly before breaking away. His dark chocolate ears twitched slightly as she said she had been looking for him and Tepi, though it seemed she wouldn’t have much longer to look as his brother came gallivanting forward looking like he had all the pep back in his step after that run in with the girl he had that competition with.

He couldn’t help but immediately scrutinize the hare he had in his mouth. Too many times had he been blamed for stealing something that Tepi had indeed taken from another hunter or pack member. Teza himself couldn’t touch those fast little buggers. He nearly relied on pack help to catch anything smaller than a fawn. Other things he had to get lucky with. He simply wasn’t fast enough to catch small prey like that. Hence more reason for him to steal a juicy rabbit he guessed. Thankfully though it seemed this time he didn’t steal it. Or so he says.

Teza’s thought’s mirrored his mother’s tones, though it seemed his father too had words to say. Distracted as he was he didn’t hear his father coming, quickly whipping his head around to see the tan and brown male trotting forward, also saying something along the lines of he was happy Tepi’s rabbit hadn’t been stolen. It wasn’t just Teza who likely got the brunt of Tepi’s games, he assumed their father also caught words about it later.

However Tepi had his own ideas. Suddenly snow and water was flicked up towards his face sending him shaking the snow from his muzzle though then there were wet dirty paws coming towards his face sending him walking backwards before tumbling and falling into the snow. He had no aversion to being dirty. He kicked his back feet up as he fell, not aware that his mother was coming towards them next to pile on them, on HIM. He flailed slightly laughing lightly as he tried to push whoever was on him off though he wasn’t really trying. He was having fun though now he felt his fur being all cold and wet he could handle it. He didn’t expect that out of his mother, but he knew Tepi had to get it from somewhere.