Post by Pavane on Jul 26, 2012 20:04:18 GMT -5
Niyt, female wolf of Cerulean
Haiza and Olathe, female wolf pups of Cerulean
Nonkene, female wolf pup of Ute
---Two-River Fork---
There is a faint chill in the air, especially in the early morning. Though Olathe isn't awake during that time of the day at least so has no idea! The growing pup is now out sniffing around, tail swaying about a few steps as she snuffles into some grasses curious like. What is THAT?... The scent of a mouse seems to have gotten the pup's attention.
Cousin Niyt may not be the best of hunters, what with her funny white eyes, but she's still pretty good at keeping watch over puppies. Okay, yes, it's not technically speaking watching, but she's still decent at it. At the moment, she's lying in a sunny patch neat the den, her ears perked to listen and keep track of her two little cousins as they explore the world.
There's so much of the world to explore! So much to see and learn about! But rather than worry about all that stuff Haiza is playing with a twig. Twigs are fun. They're chewy and awkward and if you're really good you can break them into so many little twigs it's almost like there's no twig left at all. She tussles with the thing, growling playfully at it as she tries to carry it along only to trip over it and start wrestling with the little bit of tree.
Olathe is still busy sneaking along, well in her mind she is sneaking! She is doing anything /but/ sneaking at the moment while she creeps through the grasses tring to find this monster of a mouse! So far she has come up rather short it would seem.
The mouse, being smart, is loooong gone! Down a burrow and away, that's the idea. The mousey smell that Olathe is following at this point comes from a neat little pile of mousey droppings. Niyt smiles as she listens to the puppy not-so-sneak, and tilts her head at the sound of Haiza's tripping, only to laugh softly as she hears gnawings instead of yelps. All's well!
Haiza rawrs! Untangling herself from the twig long enough to pounce on it again and seconds later trip over it once more. It's a very viscous fight, the twig is a deadly foe but it's no match for the mighty puppy!
Olathe creeepcreeeepcreeeeeps along until she finds nothing, well save her sister in front of her attacking a stick. She pauses and crouches down, ears slicked back as she eyes her sister and she soon grins. After another moment she bounces forward trying to tackle her dear sister into the ground! Rawr
Puppies are the mightiest. Niyt laughs, and rises to her feet to pad closer and nudge at the tumbly Haiza's side. Wait, does this mean she's allying with the twig? Ohnoes! Fortunately, Olathe is here to help defen- oops, no, to also join in the attack. Maybe all this is just a free-for-all.
Haiza sees Niyt coming and greets with a warning Rurrrrr. This is her stick! No one shall claim her stick! It is the greatest stick in -Yipe!- She might have spotted Niyt but she doesn't see Olathe coming and taken by surprise she's tackled and knocked over. She's quick to fight back though, rolling around on the ground and trying to hit Olathe with paws and gnaw upon her sister as she makes little growly noises and yaps.
Olathe wiggles and struggles about with a few grrrs escaping her while she is gnawed and chewed upon. Her forepaws bat out a few times and she nips about at her sister's ears before she is shoved off. A soft yip escaping her while she grins.
Niyt giggles, leaning back onto her haunches as the pups attack each other. She bats in at the melee lightly, ruffling at Haiza's fur as the pup fends of her sister from that oh-so-wondrous stick. Y'know, that one? The one that's been dropped to the ground... yeah, that.
Stick? What stick? Haiza remembers no stick! Not even when she rolls over it in the fight. The poor twig has been replaced by a fluffier opponent and lost in a very short attention span. Haiza focuses on her sister, batting, nipping and finally bouncing back up onto her paws as soon as she's managed to shove Olathe off and then gets her fur messed up by Niyt! Who she's surprised is there again because she's forgotten already. The wrath of Haiza is thus turned on Niyt! With a rawr she charges and tries to gnaw on Niyt's leg for daring to...what was it she was doing before everyone attacked her? Poor, poor forgotten stick.
The original plan was for a nice family trip to visit the other puppies. Unfortunately, /some/pup was a Bad Pup again, and /some/pup had to stay home. So, of course, mama had to stay to make sure he didn't do anything else bad. Which means it's just Nonkene, carried here by her Unca Kuna on his way to an Important Meeting. He sets her down carefully, reminds her to be a good puppy (which of course she is), nods to the Cerulean pup-watcher... and departs. He'll pick her up again on the way home. For now... Nonkene's here! The red-furred half-wolf peers at the other pups and the bigwolf, and yips as she trots toward them.
Olathe bouncs about on her paws a few times and she shifts about before turning to trot away only her large paws get tangled up and she goes flopping. She faceplants to the ground and blinks while slowly pushing herself up and lets a half huff escapes her! "Wat was dat fors?" Totally her sister's fault!
Sticky is... tricky, but wolves are... okay never mind that, Niyt's being fiercely attacked by her cousin! She wiggles her leg side to side, not so much pulling it away from Haiza as making it a challenging thing to chase. Here it is, ready to gna- oh, no, wait, it's gone! Here it- gone again! She laughs, her attention on the two wolf-pups. The fact that she's looking more or less toward the new arrival means pretty much nothing. As does the nod. Blindwolf does not see the visual gestures! The yip from Nonkene might be more informative, except... her ears are already full of puppy-noises from much closer. Like Olathefalldown, which gets a headtilt and a little reassuring wurf. Not that it seems needed, given Olathe's tone.
Haiza growls when the big sneaky leg spoils her plans of gnawings for the third time but still pounces again! And still misses. Olathe's words catch her attention and she looks round but ends up spotting the new puppy instead. It's an unknown pup! That means it's a play thing. To be fair everything is a play thing "Pup!" Haiza yips excitedly and charges off to Nonkene to say hello by going to tackle the new arrival.
At first, it seems nobody's noticed Nonkene. That's okay by her, she's got a lot to take in. Other puppies! And, yeah, another bigwolf, but... other puppies! Other /girl/ puppies, even. The wolfdog's tail wags freely as she approaches them, still in that bundle of fluff stage but already different than the other wolves to a discerning eye. Not... that puppies are always the most discerning. Particularly not when presented with a new toy, er, playmate. As Haiza turns on her, Nonkene yipyaps back and picks up the pace. She's expecting, from play with her much larger brother, to end up ducking under the other, maybe take out the legs. What she's missed is that, while these wolves are still slightly larger than the undersized wolfdog... they're not /that/ much larger, and she's likely to end up in a headon collision instead.
Olathe ears perk as she hears Hazia and she tilts her head, looking around curiously. "Pup?.." Is questioned before a soft oh escapes her and she grins while bounding over to help 'greet' the new commer! She shifts to the side, her tail wagging about while she peers at the other wolf(?) and soon tries to pounce forward in the greeting as well.
Pup? Huh? Niyt blinks as she looks up, and her ears perk. Where... huh. As a matter of fact, there /are/ other tiny pawsteps trampling the earth, and there /is/ another puppy here. She rises to her feet, sniffing the air, and hmms. She doesn't interfere with the pups greeting each other - it is just another puppy, and besides, she's not likely to get sense out of any of them right now - but she does circle around behind, seeking out the trail to find out just where this pup came from.
Haiza is pretty used to potential headon collisions, there's not a great deal of size difference in the sisters and one of the first things that must be learnt is not to headbutt each other cause that hurts. As soon as she's close Haiza springs out of Nonkene's path and moves to spring right back again so she can pounce on her from the side, trying to knock her over and pin her down.
Pup, right here! Nonkene yips as she sees Olathe coming, yaps as Haiza dodges, and then it turns into something of a yelp as she's pounced - no, DOUBLE-pounced - and pinned by the two sisters. She wriggles about, paws flailing as she tries to get free for, oh, entire /moments/ before she simply grins up at them, tail thumping the ground. "Hi!"
Olathe grins as she peers down at the wolf and giggles a moment before bouncing backwards a step. "Hello!" This said with a soft tone as she eyes the new pup. "Who are you?" Is questioned with a unsure tone.
Niyt sniffs about, then says something between 'ahh' and 'ohh'. She knows that scent. Ute; which means this is one of those Ute pups. Now that she thinks on it, wasn't there something or other mentioned? Well, regardless, it seems the pup-watcher has another pup to watch today. She can do that! Niyt pads back toward the youngsters, settling down on the ground again to listen.
Haiza strikes a victorious pose on top of the new pup once the struggling has stopped. The mighty Haiza beats another foe! With no help from her sister, ohh no, never. Victory assumed though she suddenly snaps into a grin and looks down at the Nonkene "Hi! Don't know you" she points out the obvious and seems perfectly fine with meeting a stranger, she hasn't quite grasped the idea that things can be dangerous yet. She shows no sign that she's going to get off the new pup either.
Nonkene seems unruffled about being the pup on the bottom, her tail continuing to wag. "Nuh-uh!" she agrees with Haiza, grinning up to the totally victorious puppy, then over to Olathe at the question. "Am Nene!" she answers to both of them. "Nene of Ute!" Not that she entirely understands what that means, but Unca Kuna says it like it's important, sooo it must be. "Who you?" Her eyes go back and forth between the pair, curious.
Olathe ponders while peering at Nene?.. "What's a Ute?" Is soon questioned while she settles to her haunches eyeing the new, and /strange/ looking wolf. "Why is your tail curled like that?" There is a pause and she ohs. "I'm Olathe, she's Haiza." A nod seen as she says this.
Niyt smiles, listening to the puppies talk. "Ute is a pack," she adds to the conversation. "She's part of it, just like you and Haiza are part of Cerulean."
Haiza also looks curious about Ute and looks back to Niyt when the bigwolf speaks. It doesn't really satisfy her curiosity but she considers it for a moment before asking "Wha's a pack?" she's heard the word but she didn't really get the meaning. Apparently she's part of one though "Ceeruul...Ceruuuu...I wanna be part of Ute, I can say tha' one" Puppy logic. Talk of strange tails draws her attention back to Nene and she finally gets off the pup to get a better look "Can ours do tha'?" There's a firm nod for her introduction and she grins, wagging.
"Nene of Ute," repeats the pup after Niyt's explanation, and wags that curly tail of hers. "Hi Olathe! Hi Haiza." Nonkene giggles. "Hihihaiiiiiza!" Oh, yes. That's astoundingly funny. Cause, see, the name? Sounds like saying hi. ZOMG! Hilarity. Eventually the giggles stop. "Ute is good!" Yeah, but what is it? She's not sure either, sooo she keeps going regardless. "Cept my brother, he's mean an' stupid." Hmf! "He an' me got curly tails. Nobody else!"
Olathe looks over to Niyt and wruffs a moment before nodding as she looks to Haiza and grins. "Ute is easier!" This said with a faint giggle escaping her. She crosses her eyes and tries to say her pack's name. "Ceeee...Cerrru...lean!" Perfect! Her head tilts and she peers back at Nene and she snuffles a moment. "How you and brudder got curly tail and no one else does?"
Niyt chuckles softly. "You can't be in Ute yet, because your mum and dad would be sad if you left them, and so would I," she tells Haiza. "If you want to when you're grown up, you can do it then." By which time she'll understand a great deal more about how packs work and what being in one actually means! "A pack's like a family, but bigger." Which is half-accurate, but close enough for puppies. She smiles to Olathe. "Cerulean, that's right."
Haiza tilts her head and fails to get what Nonkene finds so funny but then it is her name and she doesn't get a lot of things. Olathe manages to say the pack name that she couldn't, Haiza cannot stand for this! "Cee...Cerruuuul in...Ceruuulee..in" close enough, she looks happy again. Ha she can say it too! Packs are families, Haiza understands families, all is well "We don't have a brother" through this she thus assumes all brothers are stupid.
"Roolay!" says Nonkene, because really, why say the whole difficult thing when just a couple syllables will do nearly as well? Besides - "Roolay an' Ute sound da same!" Reason enough for another giggle, still sprawled out on her side where she was pounced. At the continued questioning, she rolls up again to peer back at her own curly tail. "Dunno," she answers, giving it a wiggle and watching it move. "Mama dun have one."
Olathe ohs at this and then peers at Niyt. "Me nos wans that." About her parents being said that is. She grins and nods while her tail thumps against the ground a few times in the process. Her gaze turns back to Nonkene and she wruffs out softly. "Roolay and Ute no sound sames."
Niyt grins to Haiza's victory over vocabulary, and Olathe's determination that the parents shall be kept happy. "Well, then. Olathe and Haiza, of Cerulean!" Nonkene's... alternative approach... makes her chuckle. Ah, puppies. The talk about the curly tail makes her frown slightly, but she's not quite sure how to approach the question. For now, she remains silent on it.
"Roolay!" Haiza repeats excitedly, approving of this easier pronunciation mostly because it sounds a little bit like a howl to her. Once more she looks curiously at Nene's tail though "Maybe if we pull on it it'll be straight?" she reasons before going to test the idea out by aiming to grab it in her jaws and pull it straight.
"Not same same," replies Nonkene to Olathe. "Just... same!" There's a word she wants here. Rhyming. It is not yet a word she has. "Ute, Roolay. Me, treeeeeep!" That there would be the bit where Haiza gets hold of her tail! Curly wolfdog tail straightens out, all right - it's capable of the position and all - but it's also got Nonkene wriggling around and batting a paw at Haiza's head while chasing the wolf that's got her tail!
Olathe giggles a moment while she bats out with a forepaw towards her sister a few times. Her head tilts, a curious glance sent towards Nonkene at the idea of straighting out her tail. "We try?" This questioned while she bounces over to the slightly smaller pup and giggles once her sister does pull it stright! "Der, now you like ussss."
Whether she knows the right words for it or not, it's time for Niyt to intervene! The adult wolf rises to her feet and pads forward, giving Haiza's side a gentle knock. "Let her go," she tells the pup. "Nene's tail is curly because that's how she is, and not you nor I nor anybody else can change that." Niyt hasn't heard the full story here, but... between Ute being attacked by dogs, a pair of curly-tailed pups (with, it must be admitted, a rather doggy scent), and the way Anoki's dog friend has a curly tail... she's got somewhat of an idea. Not that it's a story for puppies. "What you /can/ do is be the sort of wolves who know it's what's inside that matters, not how someone looks."
Haiza giggles around the tail as she's batted at but doesn't let go until Niyt knocks her off and aww, the tail curls back up again "But it was straight for a bit!" she complains because clearly that means she can change it! She'd just have to hold onto it for the rest of her life...which admittedly seems a bit dull but that doesn't mean it can't be done. She has no bias against dogs let alone dogwolves, curly tails are just interesting.
Nonkene isn't hurt, she was just surprised. She peers back at her tail, around at the other pups, then up at Niyt. "Dunno unless you try!" she declares back. See, she's game for this attempt! Maybe she can be a straight-tail, and it'll just be her dumb ol' brother stuck with a curly tail. Hah! She wiggles her tail, trying to uncurl it. C'mon, tail. Go on. Straighten out. Like- ooh! ..oops. The excitement of almost uncurling it made it wiggle and curl up again.
Olathe shifts on her paws and shifts backwards a few steps and she snuffles out while looking to Haiza and then over to the new pup. "Sok, I don minds the curel tail." This said with a nod and smile.
Niyt smiles to Haiza, ruffling her lightly. "And you can stand on two paws for a bit, but that doesn't mean you don't have four of them," she says, then hehs to Nonkene's protest. "I suppose you don't." She smiles at Olathe's words. "See? You can still all be friends, curly or straight or whatever."
Haiza tilts her head at Niyt's words and of course the next thing she does is try to stand up on two paws, she wobbly sort of manages it for about half a second too before she falls flat on her front with a yelp! She's up again moments later though with a little accusing snort at the ground as if it tripped her over. She gets over it as quickly as it all started though "Why would a curly tail stop her being our friend?" she doesn't get it, she also fully accepts that Nene is her friend even if they just met and she goes to pounce on the new pup again.
The ground can be mean, when you're a puppy. Fortunately, pups don't have far to fall. Nonkene wags that (curly) tail at Olathe, and giggles at Haiza's attempt, trying it herself... only to be pounced at, with much squeaking and giggling and flailing of paws as she tumbles over again. Definitely friends!
Oh, now Niyt's gone and gotten into it. Why, indeed! Maybe if she'd picked her other words more carefully? Maybe, but... probably not. Pups can be discerning about some things, at the same time as they utterly miss others. The adult wolf sighs, just a little, and tries to find the right words. It's okay, she's got a moment or three while they wrestle. How to put it? Well, how about like this: "Some people, when they see someone is different, are mean. I'm glad to know none of you are like that."
No pup is born with bias and having a nicely sheltered life so far Haiza has yet to learn much of it. Maybe if a stick wanted to be friends there'd be a problem but a curly tailed wolf is perfectly fine to her. She goes to flop on top of Nene and just lie there as she tries to make sense of stuff "...But mum's not the same as dad an' you aren't like them too, an' Olathe is different too an' an'...Is everyone else exactly the same?" one big complicated tin of worms to open.
Nonkene stretches herself a bit to gnaw on Haiza's fur as the other pup sprawls atop her. Omnomnom. She pauses after a bit, tilting her head to consider the conversation. "Rux is mean," she says for a start. "He bites." Okay, moving on to the harder questions. "Mama says everyone's different. That it makes us special, an' we're all good at different things."
"Who's Rux?" Olathe questions while peering over to Nonkene with a till of her head. A soft wruff escapes her. "I'd bit 'em back!"
Niyt laughs softly to Haiza, and shakes her head. "Oh, no. Everyone is different, just like Nene's mama says. But everyone's got something the same inside them, too. They've got a little piece of the wind that makes their soul. But... you're a lot more like Nene and Olathe than you are like dad, right? You're all littler, and you're all girls. And... you and Olathe and dad are more like each other than you are like Nene, because you've all got straight tails and you're all Cerulean. And all four of you are more like each other than you are like that bunny we saw the other day, right? Some people pick one of those differences, and turn mean about it. But that's kind of silly, because there's also ways they're the same."
Haiza briefly brightens up at Olathe's suggestion to bite Rux and wags her tail with a little grin "Yeeaaah!" It sounds like fun even if she has no idea who Rux is either. Biting stuff has always been fun so far. Her ears perk back to Niyt as the older wolf starts to explain. For a long time Haiza's silent, trying to wrap her little head around it all. It's hard. She's like dad but she's not like dad but she's not like a bunny...She thinks that was it "...Kay..." she hesitantly replies, still thinking.
"My brother," Nonkene answers Olathe. Yeah, him! The pesky boy. Fortunately, there's a distraction in the form of a long explanation from Niyt. Samedifferentsameness! She does try to listen, really she does, but in the end, she takes another detour, Nene-style, to a simpler concept. "We friends!" This she declares, firmly, despite being on the bottom. "Nene an' Haiza an' Olathe, all friends." So there.
Olathe makes a face and her nose twitches. "What's a brother?" She questions with a curious tone, a soft oh escapes her. "Well, just bite him back? If I can you can." She says with a stiff nod.
Oh, don't worry, Haiza. These explanations will be repeated at intervals as you grow, with bigger words and more details. For now, Niyt smiles at the assent, uncertain as it is, and nods. Hopefully she got the right ideas more or less across! She smiles more at Nonkene's declaration. "You certainly are," she agrees.
For now it's at least safe to say no one needs to worry about Haiza being mean to someone for no reason, one day probably but for now the innocence of youth doesn't care about differences. She perks up again when Nene declares them friends "Yeah!" waggy tail! Then she tilts her head at Olathe's question "I dunno. We don't have one" she's never heard of having one, maybe they just misplaced whatever it is.
What's a brother? A stupid meanie head is what he- oh, wait, wrong question. "It's like a sister, only it's a boy," Nonkene says. "You're lucky if you dun have one. It's just me an' Rux, an' I'm a sister an' he's a brother."
Olathe ponders this and scratches at her neck a few time sbefore she peers up at Niyt. "Niyt has one me thinks.. Don't ya?" She questions curiously before she glances back to Nonkene and smiles. "Ya, we are friends, why wouldn't we be?"
Niyt nods to Olathe. "That's right. I have two brothers. One's named Afra, and he and I were born together like you and Haiza, or Nene and Rux... and one's named Anoki, and he was born after." She smiles to Nene. "I like both my brothers. Maybe if you try, you can find something to like about Rux, too."
Haiza has to consider revising her thought that brothers are stupid since Niyt has some and apparently they're nice "How come we don't have brothers if everyone else does?" it's a day for a lot of questions.
Something to like? About Rux? Nonkene's nose wrinkles up and the pup looks very, very dubious. "Maybe," she says.
Olathe ohs as she hears Niyt and nods, she hums and looks to Haiza. "A shrug seen at this. "I dono.." She peers up at Niyt once more. "Why we have no brudders?" Well she is the adult she should know why!
Niyt smiles encouragingly to Nonkene, then returns to answering puppy-questions. Haiza and Olathe have discovered the 'where do puppies come from' question, rather early - if also rather indirectly. Niyt smiles to them. "Not everyone has a brother. You see, when a mum and dad decide to have puppies, sometimes they have boys, sometimes they have girls, and sometimes they have a little of each. That's up to the wind, not them! Maybe if your mum and dad decide to have more puppies, there'll be a brother for you."
Haiza considers this answer and seems to accept it, puppies getting chosen by the wind seems perfectly sensible to one who has no idea how the world works. She glances to Olathe though "Do we want brothers?"
It's a different part of what Niyt says that makes Nonkene consider, and the pup's quiet for a bit as she thinks it over. Hurm. Well, there's really only one thing to be said. "I don't have a dad," she informs the adult wolf.
Olathe ohs and peers at Haiza and shrugs a moment. "Well... If dey bite like Nene's maybe we no want 'em?" Well it's an idea, no reason to have a biting one! A glance is sent towards the new pup. "How ye have no da?"
It's not like they'll have a choice, really! At least this means they won't be pestering poor Lex and Ray. Niyt doesn't argue the point, though she does glance toward the den. Poor Lex. He's been getting stiff lately, much as he tries to hide it. Would more pups really even be, well, an option? Niyt sighs, and that's when she hears Nene's statement. How about that story she's guessed at? The one not suited to puppies? Niyt lowers her head, listening but not saying anything.
Haiza looks back to the pup she's still using as a pillow "Do some pups not have dads like some don't have brothers?" It seems logical but she considers a solution to it all anyway "Y'could share our dad and we could all have Niyt's brothers cause they don't bite" she wags again as if life was that simple and they could pick and choose family members.
"I don't," says Nonkene to Olathe's question. "I got mama, an' I got aunts an' uncles, but I don' got a dad. Never seen one, an' nobody ever talks about him, so he must not exist." She glances to Haiza, then, and nods. Some pups just don't have dads, apparently! She must be one. But.. what's this? Her ears perk, and she tilts her head consideringly. That... makes perfect sense! (To a puppy.) "Okay!"
Olathe grins as she hears Haiza and she nods a moment with a soft wruff escapes her. "Ya! She can share ours indeed." This said with a happy tone and nod before she looks to Niyt. "She can share our dad.. right?" Well, why not?
And now, for a rather less indirect version of Where Puppies Come From. Niyt lifts her head. "It takes two to make puppies. A female, and a male." Aka mum and dad. "All pups have dads, but sometimes their dads are gone, or aren't part of the pack." Niyt sighs. "You do have a dad, Nene, but maybe he's not a good dad." All the more reason to let her come share Olathe and Haiza's, right? Well, but. "That's very nice of you two to offer," she tells her cousins with a smile, "-but remember, Nene's from Ute. If she stayed here, her mama would be sad."
Haiza starts to frown, somewhere out there are bad dads? That doesn't seem right and then there's problems with there bring different packs "Does Ute have someone who can be a dad then?"
So... wait? She does have a dad? Nonkene frowns. How come she's never seen this 'dad', or heard of him, or... a bad dad? What... like Kurux? Frowny is a strange face for Nene, but she's wearing it now. "I dun /got/ a dad in Ute," she insists to Haiza. "I just got mama." Back to Niyt, with her claims that there's a dad out there somewhere. A not-good dad. "Maybe he could be good. Maybe... he got lost!"
Olathe huffs soft:huffs softly and settles to her belly, forepaw stretching out in front of her. Everything they are trying to do isn't working! A ear perks forward and she shrugs. "Ya, maybe he just lost. Why no ask yer mom?
Niyt smiles, but it's a sad sort of expression. "Olathe's right. Your mama would know, far better than I do." Though, the poor Nene-mama having to answer that for her puppy, if what Niyt suspects is true. "And Haiza, thank you for reminding us that Nene still has a pack, and they'll be there for her even if her dad isn't. Just like her friends will."
Haiza shakes her head quickly to Nene "Your dad isn't there but maybe you can share someone else's dad, someone who's in Ute" after all if they can't share their dad because they're in the wrong pack then the obvious solution is to just find someone who is in the right pack. She nods to Olathe though "Ya. Your mum has to know and if he is lost maybe he can be found...like I lost this really cool feather once and then it turned out I was sittin' on it" she nods sagely.
Ohhhh, so that's what Haiza meant. Nonkene considers on that. "I dunno," she says, but it's rather more hopeful in tone. "I'll look." Also, she'll ask her mom, so she nods again, smiling to Olathe. Oh, and there's a third nod, because looking can mean finding lost things! Frownyface Nene is gone now, and the smiling one is back. "My aunt sat on Rux once," she says with a giggle. "'Cause he was bein' bad."
Olathe nods slightly while tilting her, a soft snuffle escaping her while she shifts on her belly, forepaws pulled to her chest. "I bet just lost, I bet you mom knows where he be. Just ask?"
Poor Nene's mama, indeed. But what more can Niyt do? She settles back, lowering her head to her paws and listening to the pups talk.
Haiza giggles at the thought of Rux getting sat on before she suddenly turns serious and rather loudly whispers "Shhhh, you might give the grown ups ideas" she flicks a quick glance to Niyt before trying to look sweet and innocent because she hasn't really worked out that Niyt can't see but she has discovered that looking cute solves most problems.
"I will," Nonkene tells Olathe. "I'll ask mama where my dad is." What could go wrong? Oh! Haiza has the answer to that! Nene eeps, then giggles, joining with the other pup in cute face innocence game! It's easy, 'cause she's the good puppy. Not like Rux, nope. "I like my aunty... but... she went away. Maybe she's lost too." Frownyface makes a brief return. "I'll ask unca Kuna."
Olathe nods lsightly and then ponders while peering at Nonkene. "Who is Kuna?" This questioned with a curious tone while she shifts to settle upon her haunches.
Niyt just smiles. Sitting on puppies, huh? She pretends she didn't hear any of that. Don't mind her, puppies, Niyt's just drifting off... yeah, not really, but sometimes puppies need puppytalk.
"He's my unca," answers Nonkene, which she kinda already mentioned but hey. "He talks lots bout Ute. He -" Whatever else she was going to say, it's replaced by something different as she spots the very wolf in question returning from his Important Meeting. "That's him!" she says, and wiggles up with a wag of her tail to yip to him! Ikuna smiles to her, and thanks Niyt for watching the pup before picking her up and heading back toward Ute. "Byeeee!" says Nonkene as she's carried off, complete with paw-wiggles.
Niyt says something along the lines of 'no trouble at all,' in response to those thanks, smiling as she does, then turns her attention back to the two pups still here. The ones that actually live here! Haiza seems a sleepypup, and Niyt gives her a small nuzzle as she dozes.
Olathe shifts up onto her paws, a yawn escaping her while she moves on over to Niyt and settles down next to her dear aunt and snuggles close. Must be nap time!
Must be. Sleepy Olathe gets her own nuzzle, and Niyt smiles fondly. Seems their new friend wore the puppies right out. Well... good!
Olathe is soon sleepsleeping! All cuddled close to her dear aunt.
Haiza and Olathe, female wolf pups of Cerulean
Nonkene, female wolf pup of Ute
---Two-River Fork---
There is a faint chill in the air, especially in the early morning. Though Olathe isn't awake during that time of the day at least so has no idea! The growing pup is now out sniffing around, tail swaying about a few steps as she snuffles into some grasses curious like. What is THAT?... The scent of a mouse seems to have gotten the pup's attention.
Cousin Niyt may not be the best of hunters, what with her funny white eyes, but she's still pretty good at keeping watch over puppies. Okay, yes, it's not technically speaking watching, but she's still decent at it. At the moment, she's lying in a sunny patch neat the den, her ears perked to listen and keep track of her two little cousins as they explore the world.
There's so much of the world to explore! So much to see and learn about! But rather than worry about all that stuff Haiza is playing with a twig. Twigs are fun. They're chewy and awkward and if you're really good you can break them into so many little twigs it's almost like there's no twig left at all. She tussles with the thing, growling playfully at it as she tries to carry it along only to trip over it and start wrestling with the little bit of tree.
Olathe is still busy sneaking along, well in her mind she is sneaking! She is doing anything /but/ sneaking at the moment while she creeps through the grasses tring to find this monster of a mouse! So far she has come up rather short it would seem.
The mouse, being smart, is loooong gone! Down a burrow and away, that's the idea. The mousey smell that Olathe is following at this point comes from a neat little pile of mousey droppings. Niyt smiles as she listens to the puppy not-so-sneak, and tilts her head at the sound of Haiza's tripping, only to laugh softly as she hears gnawings instead of yelps. All's well!
Haiza rawrs! Untangling herself from the twig long enough to pounce on it again and seconds later trip over it once more. It's a very viscous fight, the twig is a deadly foe but it's no match for the mighty puppy!
Olathe creeepcreeeepcreeeeeps along until she finds nothing, well save her sister in front of her attacking a stick. She pauses and crouches down, ears slicked back as she eyes her sister and she soon grins. After another moment she bounces forward trying to tackle her dear sister into the ground! Rawr
Puppies are the mightiest. Niyt laughs, and rises to her feet to pad closer and nudge at the tumbly Haiza's side. Wait, does this mean she's allying with the twig? Ohnoes! Fortunately, Olathe is here to help defen- oops, no, to also join in the attack. Maybe all this is just a free-for-all.
Haiza sees Niyt coming and greets with a warning Rurrrrr. This is her stick! No one shall claim her stick! It is the greatest stick in -Yipe!- She might have spotted Niyt but she doesn't see Olathe coming and taken by surprise she's tackled and knocked over. She's quick to fight back though, rolling around on the ground and trying to hit Olathe with paws and gnaw upon her sister as she makes little growly noises and yaps.
Olathe wiggles and struggles about with a few grrrs escaping her while she is gnawed and chewed upon. Her forepaws bat out a few times and she nips about at her sister's ears before she is shoved off. A soft yip escaping her while she grins.
Niyt giggles, leaning back onto her haunches as the pups attack each other. She bats in at the melee lightly, ruffling at Haiza's fur as the pup fends of her sister from that oh-so-wondrous stick. Y'know, that one? The one that's been dropped to the ground... yeah, that.
Stick? What stick? Haiza remembers no stick! Not even when she rolls over it in the fight. The poor twig has been replaced by a fluffier opponent and lost in a very short attention span. Haiza focuses on her sister, batting, nipping and finally bouncing back up onto her paws as soon as she's managed to shove Olathe off and then gets her fur messed up by Niyt! Who she's surprised is there again because she's forgotten already. The wrath of Haiza is thus turned on Niyt! With a rawr she charges and tries to gnaw on Niyt's leg for daring to...what was it she was doing before everyone attacked her? Poor, poor forgotten stick.
The original plan was for a nice family trip to visit the other puppies. Unfortunately, /some/pup was a Bad Pup again, and /some/pup had to stay home. So, of course, mama had to stay to make sure he didn't do anything else bad. Which means it's just Nonkene, carried here by her Unca Kuna on his way to an Important Meeting. He sets her down carefully, reminds her to be a good puppy (which of course she is), nods to the Cerulean pup-watcher... and departs. He'll pick her up again on the way home. For now... Nonkene's here! The red-furred half-wolf peers at the other pups and the bigwolf, and yips as she trots toward them.
Olathe bouncs about on her paws a few times and she shifts about before turning to trot away only her large paws get tangled up and she goes flopping. She faceplants to the ground and blinks while slowly pushing herself up and lets a half huff escapes her! "Wat was dat fors?" Totally her sister's fault!
Sticky is... tricky, but wolves are... okay never mind that, Niyt's being fiercely attacked by her cousin! She wiggles her leg side to side, not so much pulling it away from Haiza as making it a challenging thing to chase. Here it is, ready to gna- oh, no, wait, it's gone! Here it- gone again! She laughs, her attention on the two wolf-pups. The fact that she's looking more or less toward the new arrival means pretty much nothing. As does the nod. Blindwolf does not see the visual gestures! The yip from Nonkene might be more informative, except... her ears are already full of puppy-noises from much closer. Like Olathefalldown, which gets a headtilt and a little reassuring wurf. Not that it seems needed, given Olathe's tone.
Haiza growls when the big sneaky leg spoils her plans of gnawings for the third time but still pounces again! And still misses. Olathe's words catch her attention and she looks round but ends up spotting the new puppy instead. It's an unknown pup! That means it's a play thing. To be fair everything is a play thing "Pup!" Haiza yips excitedly and charges off to Nonkene to say hello by going to tackle the new arrival.
At first, it seems nobody's noticed Nonkene. That's okay by her, she's got a lot to take in. Other puppies! And, yeah, another bigwolf, but... other puppies! Other /girl/ puppies, even. The wolfdog's tail wags freely as she approaches them, still in that bundle of fluff stage but already different than the other wolves to a discerning eye. Not... that puppies are always the most discerning. Particularly not when presented with a new toy, er, playmate. As Haiza turns on her, Nonkene yipyaps back and picks up the pace. She's expecting, from play with her much larger brother, to end up ducking under the other, maybe take out the legs. What she's missed is that, while these wolves are still slightly larger than the undersized wolfdog... they're not /that/ much larger, and she's likely to end up in a headon collision instead.
Olathe ears perk as she hears Hazia and she tilts her head, looking around curiously. "Pup?.." Is questioned before a soft oh escapes her and she grins while bounding over to help 'greet' the new commer! She shifts to the side, her tail wagging about while she peers at the other wolf(?) and soon tries to pounce forward in the greeting as well.
Pup? Huh? Niyt blinks as she looks up, and her ears perk. Where... huh. As a matter of fact, there /are/ other tiny pawsteps trampling the earth, and there /is/ another puppy here. She rises to her feet, sniffing the air, and hmms. She doesn't interfere with the pups greeting each other - it is just another puppy, and besides, she's not likely to get sense out of any of them right now - but she does circle around behind, seeking out the trail to find out just where this pup came from.
Haiza is pretty used to potential headon collisions, there's not a great deal of size difference in the sisters and one of the first things that must be learnt is not to headbutt each other cause that hurts. As soon as she's close Haiza springs out of Nonkene's path and moves to spring right back again so she can pounce on her from the side, trying to knock her over and pin her down.
Pup, right here! Nonkene yips as she sees Olathe coming, yaps as Haiza dodges, and then it turns into something of a yelp as she's pounced - no, DOUBLE-pounced - and pinned by the two sisters. She wriggles about, paws flailing as she tries to get free for, oh, entire /moments/ before she simply grins up at them, tail thumping the ground. "Hi!"
Olathe grins as she peers down at the wolf and giggles a moment before bouncing backwards a step. "Hello!" This said with a soft tone as she eyes the new pup. "Who are you?" Is questioned with a unsure tone.
Niyt sniffs about, then says something between 'ahh' and 'ohh'. She knows that scent. Ute; which means this is one of those Ute pups. Now that she thinks on it, wasn't there something or other mentioned? Well, regardless, it seems the pup-watcher has another pup to watch today. She can do that! Niyt pads back toward the youngsters, settling down on the ground again to listen.
Haiza strikes a victorious pose on top of the new pup once the struggling has stopped. The mighty Haiza beats another foe! With no help from her sister, ohh no, never. Victory assumed though she suddenly snaps into a grin and looks down at the Nonkene "Hi! Don't know you" she points out the obvious and seems perfectly fine with meeting a stranger, she hasn't quite grasped the idea that things can be dangerous yet. She shows no sign that she's going to get off the new pup either.
Nonkene seems unruffled about being the pup on the bottom, her tail continuing to wag. "Nuh-uh!" she agrees with Haiza, grinning up to the totally victorious puppy, then over to Olathe at the question. "Am Nene!" she answers to both of them. "Nene of Ute!" Not that she entirely understands what that means, but Unca Kuna says it like it's important, sooo it must be. "Who you?" Her eyes go back and forth between the pair, curious.
Olathe ponders while peering at Nene?.. "What's a Ute?" Is soon questioned while she settles to her haunches eyeing the new, and /strange/ looking wolf. "Why is your tail curled like that?" There is a pause and she ohs. "I'm Olathe, she's Haiza." A nod seen as she says this.
Niyt smiles, listening to the puppies talk. "Ute is a pack," she adds to the conversation. "She's part of it, just like you and Haiza are part of Cerulean."
Haiza also looks curious about Ute and looks back to Niyt when the bigwolf speaks. It doesn't really satisfy her curiosity but she considers it for a moment before asking "Wha's a pack?" she's heard the word but she didn't really get the meaning. Apparently she's part of one though "Ceeruul...Ceruuuu...I wanna be part of Ute, I can say tha' one" Puppy logic. Talk of strange tails draws her attention back to Nene and she finally gets off the pup to get a better look "Can ours do tha'?" There's a firm nod for her introduction and she grins, wagging.
"Nene of Ute," repeats the pup after Niyt's explanation, and wags that curly tail of hers. "Hi Olathe! Hi Haiza." Nonkene giggles. "Hihihaiiiiiza!" Oh, yes. That's astoundingly funny. Cause, see, the name? Sounds like saying hi. ZOMG! Hilarity. Eventually the giggles stop. "Ute is good!" Yeah, but what is it? She's not sure either, sooo she keeps going regardless. "Cept my brother, he's mean an' stupid." Hmf! "He an' me got curly tails. Nobody else!"
Olathe looks over to Niyt and wruffs a moment before nodding as she looks to Haiza and grins. "Ute is easier!" This said with a faint giggle escaping her. She crosses her eyes and tries to say her pack's name. "Ceeee...Cerrru...lean!" Perfect! Her head tilts and she peers back at Nene and she snuffles a moment. "How you and brudder got curly tail and no one else does?"
Niyt chuckles softly. "You can't be in Ute yet, because your mum and dad would be sad if you left them, and so would I," she tells Haiza. "If you want to when you're grown up, you can do it then." By which time she'll understand a great deal more about how packs work and what being in one actually means! "A pack's like a family, but bigger." Which is half-accurate, but close enough for puppies. She smiles to Olathe. "Cerulean, that's right."
Haiza tilts her head and fails to get what Nonkene finds so funny but then it is her name and she doesn't get a lot of things. Olathe manages to say the pack name that she couldn't, Haiza cannot stand for this! "Cee...Cerruuuul in...Ceruuulee..in" close enough, she looks happy again. Ha she can say it too! Packs are families, Haiza understands families, all is well "We don't have a brother" through this she thus assumes all brothers are stupid.
"Roolay!" says Nonkene, because really, why say the whole difficult thing when just a couple syllables will do nearly as well? Besides - "Roolay an' Ute sound da same!" Reason enough for another giggle, still sprawled out on her side where she was pounced. At the continued questioning, she rolls up again to peer back at her own curly tail. "Dunno," she answers, giving it a wiggle and watching it move. "Mama dun have one."
Olathe ohs at this and then peers at Niyt. "Me nos wans that." About her parents being said that is. She grins and nods while her tail thumps against the ground a few times in the process. Her gaze turns back to Nonkene and she wruffs out softly. "Roolay and Ute no sound sames."
Niyt grins to Haiza's victory over vocabulary, and Olathe's determination that the parents shall be kept happy. "Well, then. Olathe and Haiza, of Cerulean!" Nonkene's... alternative approach... makes her chuckle. Ah, puppies. The talk about the curly tail makes her frown slightly, but she's not quite sure how to approach the question. For now, she remains silent on it.
"Roolay!" Haiza repeats excitedly, approving of this easier pronunciation mostly because it sounds a little bit like a howl to her. Once more she looks curiously at Nene's tail though "Maybe if we pull on it it'll be straight?" she reasons before going to test the idea out by aiming to grab it in her jaws and pull it straight.
"Not same same," replies Nonkene to Olathe. "Just... same!" There's a word she wants here. Rhyming. It is not yet a word she has. "Ute, Roolay. Me, treeeeeep!" That there would be the bit where Haiza gets hold of her tail! Curly wolfdog tail straightens out, all right - it's capable of the position and all - but it's also got Nonkene wriggling around and batting a paw at Haiza's head while chasing the wolf that's got her tail!
Olathe giggles a moment while she bats out with a forepaw towards her sister a few times. Her head tilts, a curious glance sent towards Nonkene at the idea of straighting out her tail. "We try?" This questioned while she bounces over to the slightly smaller pup and giggles once her sister does pull it stright! "Der, now you like ussss."
Whether she knows the right words for it or not, it's time for Niyt to intervene! The adult wolf rises to her feet and pads forward, giving Haiza's side a gentle knock. "Let her go," she tells the pup. "Nene's tail is curly because that's how she is, and not you nor I nor anybody else can change that." Niyt hasn't heard the full story here, but... between Ute being attacked by dogs, a pair of curly-tailed pups (with, it must be admitted, a rather doggy scent), and the way Anoki's dog friend has a curly tail... she's got somewhat of an idea. Not that it's a story for puppies. "What you /can/ do is be the sort of wolves who know it's what's inside that matters, not how someone looks."
Haiza giggles around the tail as she's batted at but doesn't let go until Niyt knocks her off and aww, the tail curls back up again "But it was straight for a bit!" she complains because clearly that means she can change it! She'd just have to hold onto it for the rest of her life...which admittedly seems a bit dull but that doesn't mean it can't be done. She has no bias against dogs let alone dogwolves, curly tails are just interesting.
Nonkene isn't hurt, she was just surprised. She peers back at her tail, around at the other pups, then up at Niyt. "Dunno unless you try!" she declares back. See, she's game for this attempt! Maybe she can be a straight-tail, and it'll just be her dumb ol' brother stuck with a curly tail. Hah! She wiggles her tail, trying to uncurl it. C'mon, tail. Go on. Straighten out. Like- ooh! ..oops. The excitement of almost uncurling it made it wiggle and curl up again.
Olathe shifts on her paws and shifts backwards a few steps and she snuffles out while looking to Haiza and then over to the new pup. "Sok, I don minds the curel tail." This said with a nod and smile.
Niyt smiles to Haiza, ruffling her lightly. "And you can stand on two paws for a bit, but that doesn't mean you don't have four of them," she says, then hehs to Nonkene's protest. "I suppose you don't." She smiles at Olathe's words. "See? You can still all be friends, curly or straight or whatever."
Haiza tilts her head at Niyt's words and of course the next thing she does is try to stand up on two paws, she wobbly sort of manages it for about half a second too before she falls flat on her front with a yelp! She's up again moments later though with a little accusing snort at the ground as if it tripped her over. She gets over it as quickly as it all started though "Why would a curly tail stop her being our friend?" she doesn't get it, she also fully accepts that Nene is her friend even if they just met and she goes to pounce on the new pup again.
The ground can be mean, when you're a puppy. Fortunately, pups don't have far to fall. Nonkene wags that (curly) tail at Olathe, and giggles at Haiza's attempt, trying it herself... only to be pounced at, with much squeaking and giggling and flailing of paws as she tumbles over again. Definitely friends!
Oh, now Niyt's gone and gotten into it. Why, indeed! Maybe if she'd picked her other words more carefully? Maybe, but... probably not. Pups can be discerning about some things, at the same time as they utterly miss others. The adult wolf sighs, just a little, and tries to find the right words. It's okay, she's got a moment or three while they wrestle. How to put it? Well, how about like this: "Some people, when they see someone is different, are mean. I'm glad to know none of you are like that."
No pup is born with bias and having a nicely sheltered life so far Haiza has yet to learn much of it. Maybe if a stick wanted to be friends there'd be a problem but a curly tailed wolf is perfectly fine to her. She goes to flop on top of Nene and just lie there as she tries to make sense of stuff "...But mum's not the same as dad an' you aren't like them too, an' Olathe is different too an' an'...Is everyone else exactly the same?" one big complicated tin of worms to open.
Nonkene stretches herself a bit to gnaw on Haiza's fur as the other pup sprawls atop her. Omnomnom. She pauses after a bit, tilting her head to consider the conversation. "Rux is mean," she says for a start. "He bites." Okay, moving on to the harder questions. "Mama says everyone's different. That it makes us special, an' we're all good at different things."
"Who's Rux?" Olathe questions while peering over to Nonkene with a till of her head. A soft wruff escapes her. "I'd bit 'em back!"
Niyt laughs softly to Haiza, and shakes her head. "Oh, no. Everyone is different, just like Nene's mama says. But everyone's got something the same inside them, too. They've got a little piece of the wind that makes their soul. But... you're a lot more like Nene and Olathe than you are like dad, right? You're all littler, and you're all girls. And... you and Olathe and dad are more like each other than you are like Nene, because you've all got straight tails and you're all Cerulean. And all four of you are more like each other than you are like that bunny we saw the other day, right? Some people pick one of those differences, and turn mean about it. But that's kind of silly, because there's also ways they're the same."
Haiza briefly brightens up at Olathe's suggestion to bite Rux and wags her tail with a little grin "Yeeaaah!" It sounds like fun even if she has no idea who Rux is either. Biting stuff has always been fun so far. Her ears perk back to Niyt as the older wolf starts to explain. For a long time Haiza's silent, trying to wrap her little head around it all. It's hard. She's like dad but she's not like dad but she's not like a bunny...She thinks that was it "...Kay..." she hesitantly replies, still thinking.
"My brother," Nonkene answers Olathe. Yeah, him! The pesky boy. Fortunately, there's a distraction in the form of a long explanation from Niyt. Samedifferentsameness! She does try to listen, really she does, but in the end, she takes another detour, Nene-style, to a simpler concept. "We friends!" This she declares, firmly, despite being on the bottom. "Nene an' Haiza an' Olathe, all friends." So there.
Olathe makes a face and her nose twitches. "What's a brother?" She questions with a curious tone, a soft oh escapes her. "Well, just bite him back? If I can you can." She says with a stiff nod.
Oh, don't worry, Haiza. These explanations will be repeated at intervals as you grow, with bigger words and more details. For now, Niyt smiles at the assent, uncertain as it is, and nods. Hopefully she got the right ideas more or less across! She smiles more at Nonkene's declaration. "You certainly are," she agrees.
For now it's at least safe to say no one needs to worry about Haiza being mean to someone for no reason, one day probably but for now the innocence of youth doesn't care about differences. She perks up again when Nene declares them friends "Yeah!" waggy tail! Then she tilts her head at Olathe's question "I dunno. We don't have one" she's never heard of having one, maybe they just misplaced whatever it is.
What's a brother? A stupid meanie head is what he- oh, wait, wrong question. "It's like a sister, only it's a boy," Nonkene says. "You're lucky if you dun have one. It's just me an' Rux, an' I'm a sister an' he's a brother."
Olathe ponders this and scratches at her neck a few time sbefore she peers up at Niyt. "Niyt has one me thinks.. Don't ya?" She questions curiously before she glances back to Nonkene and smiles. "Ya, we are friends, why wouldn't we be?"
Niyt nods to Olathe. "That's right. I have two brothers. One's named Afra, and he and I were born together like you and Haiza, or Nene and Rux... and one's named Anoki, and he was born after." She smiles to Nene. "I like both my brothers. Maybe if you try, you can find something to like about Rux, too."
Haiza has to consider revising her thought that brothers are stupid since Niyt has some and apparently they're nice "How come we don't have brothers if everyone else does?" it's a day for a lot of questions.
Something to like? About Rux? Nonkene's nose wrinkles up and the pup looks very, very dubious. "Maybe," she says.
Olathe ohs as she hears Niyt and nods, she hums and looks to Haiza. "A shrug seen at this. "I dono.." She peers up at Niyt once more. "Why we have no brudders?" Well she is the adult she should know why!
Niyt smiles encouragingly to Nonkene, then returns to answering puppy-questions. Haiza and Olathe have discovered the 'where do puppies come from' question, rather early - if also rather indirectly. Niyt smiles to them. "Not everyone has a brother. You see, when a mum and dad decide to have puppies, sometimes they have boys, sometimes they have girls, and sometimes they have a little of each. That's up to the wind, not them! Maybe if your mum and dad decide to have more puppies, there'll be a brother for you."
Haiza considers this answer and seems to accept it, puppies getting chosen by the wind seems perfectly sensible to one who has no idea how the world works. She glances to Olathe though "Do we want brothers?"
It's a different part of what Niyt says that makes Nonkene consider, and the pup's quiet for a bit as she thinks it over. Hurm. Well, there's really only one thing to be said. "I don't have a dad," she informs the adult wolf.
Olathe ohs and peers at Haiza and shrugs a moment. "Well... If dey bite like Nene's maybe we no want 'em?" Well it's an idea, no reason to have a biting one! A glance is sent towards the new pup. "How ye have no da?"
It's not like they'll have a choice, really! At least this means they won't be pestering poor Lex and Ray. Niyt doesn't argue the point, though she does glance toward the den. Poor Lex. He's been getting stiff lately, much as he tries to hide it. Would more pups really even be, well, an option? Niyt sighs, and that's when she hears Nene's statement. How about that story she's guessed at? The one not suited to puppies? Niyt lowers her head, listening but not saying anything.
Haiza looks back to the pup she's still using as a pillow "Do some pups not have dads like some don't have brothers?" It seems logical but she considers a solution to it all anyway "Y'could share our dad and we could all have Niyt's brothers cause they don't bite" she wags again as if life was that simple and they could pick and choose family members.
"I don't," says Nonkene to Olathe's question. "I got mama, an' I got aunts an' uncles, but I don' got a dad. Never seen one, an' nobody ever talks about him, so he must not exist." She glances to Haiza, then, and nods. Some pups just don't have dads, apparently! She must be one. But.. what's this? Her ears perk, and she tilts her head consideringly. That... makes perfect sense! (To a puppy.) "Okay!"
Olathe grins as she hears Haiza and she nods a moment with a soft wruff escapes her. "Ya! She can share ours indeed." This said with a happy tone and nod before she looks to Niyt. "She can share our dad.. right?" Well, why not?
And now, for a rather less indirect version of Where Puppies Come From. Niyt lifts her head. "It takes two to make puppies. A female, and a male." Aka mum and dad. "All pups have dads, but sometimes their dads are gone, or aren't part of the pack." Niyt sighs. "You do have a dad, Nene, but maybe he's not a good dad." All the more reason to let her come share Olathe and Haiza's, right? Well, but. "That's very nice of you two to offer," she tells her cousins with a smile, "-but remember, Nene's from Ute. If she stayed here, her mama would be sad."
Haiza starts to frown, somewhere out there are bad dads? That doesn't seem right and then there's problems with there bring different packs "Does Ute have someone who can be a dad then?"
So... wait? She does have a dad? Nonkene frowns. How come she's never seen this 'dad', or heard of him, or... a bad dad? What... like Kurux? Frowny is a strange face for Nene, but she's wearing it now. "I dun /got/ a dad in Ute," she insists to Haiza. "I just got mama." Back to Niyt, with her claims that there's a dad out there somewhere. A not-good dad. "Maybe he could be good. Maybe... he got lost!"
Olathe huffs soft:huffs softly and settles to her belly, forepaw stretching out in front of her. Everything they are trying to do isn't working! A ear perks forward and she shrugs. "Ya, maybe he just lost. Why no ask yer mom?
Niyt smiles, but it's a sad sort of expression. "Olathe's right. Your mama would know, far better than I do." Though, the poor Nene-mama having to answer that for her puppy, if what Niyt suspects is true. "And Haiza, thank you for reminding us that Nene still has a pack, and they'll be there for her even if her dad isn't. Just like her friends will."
Haiza shakes her head quickly to Nene "Your dad isn't there but maybe you can share someone else's dad, someone who's in Ute" after all if they can't share their dad because they're in the wrong pack then the obvious solution is to just find someone who is in the right pack. She nods to Olathe though "Ya. Your mum has to know and if he is lost maybe he can be found...like I lost this really cool feather once and then it turned out I was sittin' on it" she nods sagely.
Ohhhh, so that's what Haiza meant. Nonkene considers on that. "I dunno," she says, but it's rather more hopeful in tone. "I'll look." Also, she'll ask her mom, so she nods again, smiling to Olathe. Oh, and there's a third nod, because looking can mean finding lost things! Frownyface Nene is gone now, and the smiling one is back. "My aunt sat on Rux once," she says with a giggle. "'Cause he was bein' bad."
Olathe nods slightly while tilting her, a soft snuffle escaping her while she shifts on her belly, forepaws pulled to her chest. "I bet just lost, I bet you mom knows where he be. Just ask?"
Poor Nene's mama, indeed. But what more can Niyt do? She settles back, lowering her head to her paws and listening to the pups talk.
Haiza giggles at the thought of Rux getting sat on before she suddenly turns serious and rather loudly whispers "Shhhh, you might give the grown ups ideas" she flicks a quick glance to Niyt before trying to look sweet and innocent because she hasn't really worked out that Niyt can't see but she has discovered that looking cute solves most problems.
"I will," Nonkene tells Olathe. "I'll ask mama where my dad is." What could go wrong? Oh! Haiza has the answer to that! Nene eeps, then giggles, joining with the other pup in cute face innocence game! It's easy, 'cause she's the good puppy. Not like Rux, nope. "I like my aunty... but... she went away. Maybe she's lost too." Frownyface makes a brief return. "I'll ask unca Kuna."
Olathe nods lsightly and then ponders while peering at Nonkene. "Who is Kuna?" This questioned with a curious tone while she shifts to settle upon her haunches.
Niyt just smiles. Sitting on puppies, huh? She pretends she didn't hear any of that. Don't mind her, puppies, Niyt's just drifting off... yeah, not really, but sometimes puppies need puppytalk.
"He's my unca," answers Nonkene, which she kinda already mentioned but hey. "He talks lots bout Ute. He -" Whatever else she was going to say, it's replaced by something different as she spots the very wolf in question returning from his Important Meeting. "That's him!" she says, and wiggles up with a wag of her tail to yip to him! Ikuna smiles to her, and thanks Niyt for watching the pup before picking her up and heading back toward Ute. "Byeeee!" says Nonkene as she's carried off, complete with paw-wiggles.
Niyt says something along the lines of 'no trouble at all,' in response to those thanks, smiling as she does, then turns her attention back to the two pups still here. The ones that actually live here! Haiza seems a sleepypup, and Niyt gives her a small nuzzle as she dozes.
Olathe shifts up onto her paws, a yawn escaping her while she moves on over to Niyt and settles down next to her dear aunt and snuggles close. Must be nap time!
Must be. Sleepy Olathe gets her own nuzzle, and Niyt smiles fondly. Seems their new friend wore the puppies right out. Well... good!
Olathe is soon sleepsleeping! All cuddled close to her dear aunt.