Niyol had bad a busy winter, and fall, but it wasn’t probably for the reasons his brother expected. Niyol had prided himself on being sneaky and stealthy. He was getting pretty good with his nose too! One thing he was pretty certain of was his brother was keeping some sort of secret from him. It had started out with Niyol just being himself, he went off to Asteraia where he had quite the rude awakening that his parents tales of cannibals weren’t all lies when a girl he considered absolutely mad cackled and claimed she wanted to bite all over him. After all the shrieking and insane words of filling his world with teeth and how he should have heard of cannibals and hear the shrieks and cries of their prey he took the hint even more. She was a cannibal. She was crazy, and she wanted to bite on him. Hard passes all around he thought. Of course he leapt down and high tailed it back to Taviora when that happened. However he also learned shortly after that not all Asteraia wolves were shrieking banshees that wanted to bite all over him when he confronted the boy that then trespassed in Taviora shortly after he had fled. That had been another lesson on it’s own.

From there Niyol started his investigation of sorts, but there was something he noticed about his brother one day when they had gone to bed. The scent of that girl, which Niyol was hard pressed to not forget lingered on the fringes of his coat one day. Concerned, as a brother should be, he one day followed him when he left during the winter at a great distance. He used his brother’s tracks and scents and low and behold he had gone right into the den of Asteraia. Niyol had been worried, but Mochi could always handle himself so he went home, he didn’t tattle, and Niyol knew not all wolves in Asteraia were… insane… His brother would be fine… hopefully. So he did something that greatly concerned his mother and he waited around the den allll day for his brother to come back that evening staring off in the distance until he came home and acted like nothing was out of the norm even though his brother’s pelt held the scent of that crazy girl again. Concern etched in him once more yet, he didn’t know what to say? He hadn’t told his experience there to anyone in fear he would get into trouble, their mom and dad, if they noticed didn’t seem to say anything. He was stuck, not wanting to be a nark while still being a concerned brother. So the last few months of his yearling hood were spent in concern and turmoil more than pranking and causing mayhem. A shame really. However Niyol was not going to let his concern stop him from going to the two year old party!

He really wasn’t all that far behind his brother. He ran and ran after him, but he had took off a good deal earlier so he was hard pressed to catch up. He wound up the mountain trail and never was it far from the border of Taviora and Spirane so soon he spotted the slowly growing group before him. At first he felt nothing but excitement! He might see that boy from Asteraia again! Maybe he could introduce him to his brother? They all could be friends! However when he rounded the corner just behind his black pelted brother his eyes immediately landed on the girl and his heart jumped in his chest. ”Ahh… ah.” The quiet noise came from him as he watched her standing near the first girl who seemed a lot lighter in attitude than her. With Mochi though Niyol took a deep breath puffing his chest out and standing up straight, which would have been a pretty impressive feat if the scary girl and his brother near him weren’t both taller.

”I’m his brother, Niyol.” He introduced, and likewise with his brother he didn’t try to show much recognition of the other girl. His eyes though went to Mochi, hoping for something of a moment, but alas he didn’t think he would have the time to be interrupting his sibling today with his findings and worries. Once others got here he would feel more comfortable he thought, he could run around and have fun and give her a wide berth while he enjoyed his second birthday like everyone else.