He had been trailing his son since he hadn’t come back home when his other two sons had. Of course Paisley was worried for him, Jinan was a little less so, but for his imprint he would always do what he could to make sure she was at peace. After all he pretty much grew up with no parents, just his elder siblings raising him and sometimes his father, and he made it through life just fine. He had taught his sons to hunt for themselves, and figured in his first fall he couldn’t get into too much trouble.

Still though, there was the worry that Kajika was fairly small, he took after his mother’s size, and his brothers both were much bigger than him. Perhaps it were them he might not have worried at all. The deaf first time father though bothered with it though. Following the scent trail of his son with all the skill his years as a hunter of Taviora had gifted to him, as well as his silent world had forced him to adapt too. He was strongly aware of all kinds of scents in Taviora, what they said was true about wolves who either lost or were born without one of their senses, the others made up for it.

While his nose trailed the ground, his eyes scanned through the brush, looking for anything that might move before him. It was then that his nose picked up his son’s scent stronger on the breeze, a bit of blood and a grin of pride touched the father’s lips as he recognized it as squirrels blood. His young Kajika was doing his father proud, as well as living up to his name. Quietly the brown, black and gold father continued forward when suddenly more scents assailed him and these foreign to him, with no pack affiliations that he could tell. His heart started rushing and he started moving forward a little more quickly, he didn’t assume it was anyone bad at first, and couldn’t hear if there were growls snarls and yips, all he could do was trust his eyes as he first came up from behind his son, then saw a smaller dark pelted one go diving towards him.

Jinan was by no means a large wolf. HIs body had been built for speed, to be the best hunter to chase and halt prey. Like the slender female he was built to move quickly and silently through the forest. He was moving the moment he saw her rushing for him. A savage snarl coming from his maw, not caring if he brought the attention to himself, as dashed forward getting up to the female before he snapped to grab at one of her slender black legs and stop her from giving chase. She was already bearing down on Kajika, she was quick after all, but he wouldn’t let her get much further than that. At the moment the other female who stood wanting to cut of his son’s path didn’t matter much to Jinan, he just wanted to keep the immediate thread away from his child.