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Peska was very smart and noted a lot in any scenery but he didn't need to squint or fidget towards the object moving in this scenery. She was bright, and he would be lying if he didn't admit she was beautiful. The constant red from afar, only giving a surprise of gold jewellery, astonished the large dog. His odd bright eyes wandered over her in the scenery until he noticed her facial reactions in which didn't allow him to be distracted when a leaf broke from the timberline.

Something was unsettling about her being alone, and then he saw her draw in a breath and close her eyes. He had seen Ashanti do this before, his grandmother.. Well sort of grandmother. His stepgrandmother? Whatever. Back to the program Peska. His curiousity pushed him this time, he stepped forward quietly and quickly until he was close enough to see a tear slip down her cheek.

"Madam.. Are you alright?" Peska's voice broke through the silence Aleksei seemed to have for herself. His voice was warm, and definitely newly settled into. It held a deep tone, one that would be rather good for singing. Being this close, when a red leaf fluttered by him he let his eyes only watch it for a second until he snapped back into reality and looked back up at her. At that moment noticing the different textures in her fur, his eyes were in a trance for a mere moment until her cheek's maze lead him back to her eyes. Her body was so red, the leaf had nothing on her tone. She made him think of "Rubies..." He would say out loud and then he'd stutter. "S-Sorry forgive me, continuing from my first question if you were alright..."

Peska did sense some sort of feeling he wasn't very welcome until she noticed he was a big cuddle bug of a dog and not a skinwalker. He always forgot that the sheepdog family tended to be considered skinwalkers from afar but really only had tails of another animal. But he pushed it back into his mind when he heard her respond to him.

He felt bad because he always called ladies Madam, even little fillies. Or Miss. Or Missus. Smiling though when she said her name. "You don't look very old." He would say kindly to her. She was beautiful to the sheepdog. Her colouration was so shocking, he wasn't used to such a luxurious red in a pelt. He was slowly being caught back into her designs in her pelt that when she said she thought she was ok. Her words drew him back once again and he hummed.

"Future.." He canted his head to the side and hummed a little. "I am doing fine, thinking of the Present though I presume." He said with a smart tone, not the sort to be snarky but it was true. "I presently have no time to think of the Future.. and the past. As much as I wish to think about it.. There is too much going on now for me to really press on things that have already occurred. I suppose.." He would state as a leaf flew between them and up high in the sky, past where Peska could even consider jumping. His face turning up with the wind to watch the leaf dance back upon his snout. With a chuckle. He let the leaf fall back to the ground between his hooves.
"It's odd to see an Angeni on the ground though. I have never had a conversation with an Angeni.. Well aside from one who's domain is the forest. But it was when I was quite young." He chuckled. "Here I go. Thinking about the past and missing out on the present." He would pause for a second though. "Oh, uhm. My name is Peska.. Peska Scarecrow."

"You're very welcome." He would pipe up in reply. Flicking his tail behind him to show a sort of tail wag to go with his happiness.
Watching her bob her head made him smile, her own movements kept in his mind.. "I guess, I don't have a very painful past." He said sort of like he was dull. Just he wasn't really. He was distracted way to much for a dull life. He always was moving some way. He watched her, watch him while she tipped her head with his own. He chuckled when he hair would flop to its side as his eyes twinkled at her a bit.

When she said she doesn't have a tail he'd chuckle and look at her tail. "You do but it just is more of a standard tail you'd see on a Soquili I suppose." Though this wasn't always the story. His tail would flick back and forth when she talked about it. "I am just another boy with a dog tail." He'd grin back at her with his ears swiveling towards her. He never thought about the idea of being in the sky with a kalona. Not that they were a problem for him. Most Kalona ran away from his family because they think they're skin walkers from time to time. Also Peska and his male predecessors were huge. "Hunt? Do you eat meat?" He'd eyebrow raise in curiousity.

At the last question he hummed a little and thought of his family. "No.. My father's family is Canid. My mother's is mostly made up of Regular Soquili and other standard species." He cleared his throat. "My grandfather Monfulta, or Opi.. would be the oldest generation we really know about. He has a tail much like mine but longer and slimmer.. He also drips shadows.. My grandmother was apparently a pale coloured Cerynei but I have never met her. They broke their mating and went separate ways. My father is also canid and has two canid brothers but I have only met one Uncle. The other went with my grandmother.. My stepgramma is a Cerynei too." He chuckled noticing that his Opi liked Cerynei. "My mother is a Regular like her family.. and hm.." He thought. "I also have an Aunt who's a Canid Soquili but she isn't my blood aunt. And I have a brother who's Canid. His tail's shorter than mine." He would think about Gyrfalcon and look around for a second. "Hm. Odd Gyr seems to not be around for me to introduce to you.." His eyes and face reverted back to her. "Are your family all Angeni? You seem like a full blooded Angeni.."

Watching her watch him was interesting. She paid such amazing attention and he wondered if this is what he looked like on the other side? Just more calm and less fidgety he supposed. "I am very grateful that my family is quite an amazing group of Soquili.." He would say calmly to her but when she said her's was tangled his ears flattened for a moment.

When she complimented him, his eyes brightened a bit more and he blushed under his thick fur. Oh dear, later he'll be skipping home to find Gyrfalcon and be singing up the den with happiness. She made his day. He wasn't very used to compliments. "Thank you Aleksi." He would say her name warmly with a smile. As he smiled his fangs did show through; yes.. He did have pointed teeth. Obviously they ate meat. But they were able to digest plants too. When she said he looked a bit dangerous he tipped his head. "I have heard that yes.. It is the hardships of having a tail much like the Skinwalkers.. I have yet to really see one though. I have seen a Kalona high tail it away from me due to it.." When she said she didn't hunt to eat he gave way to a smirk. "There would not be anything bad about hunting to eat." He would state and chuckle.

He heard her say her family had been slaughtered by Walkers and he winced. For some reason, his grandfather and parents always flinched when they heard about Walkers. It was true they obviously, as stated before, had given the Scarecrow family an uneasy go at life due to their similarities. Peska had been charged at before because of this. "I'm.. Sorry to hear about that." He looked genuinely upset and nodded a little to her adoption. "My Aunt Cyanide apparently was in the same issue.. Though she doesn't quite remember her history. You would think she was more menacing then me.. She has paws but she is a beautiful Soquili." He'd give her a smile. Cyanide though was definitely troubled and he never put it past her or blamed her.

As she moved so elegantly, he noted her form and way she moved to be like a female he once knew as Anthem. Anthem was just deadly with every movement. Her power in her draft limbs were enticing to watch. He could see that this Soquili was once, or still is, a warrioress in some way. He felt the air of her uncertainty for telling him. His eyes were on her patterns again and dog grew intrigued about his ability to keep his attention so locked onto her. She had only began to speak to him and he felt a presence that she was the one his attention was made to stay on for awhile. "I would never belittle a lady and her entitlement or job. Opi would not sit for it.. I know a few tricks up my sleeve.. I am not all innocent. I am driven to protect things and I watch the things I feel the most duty in protecting... It is the way of the Sheep Dog. The way my grandfather has meant his family to be."

He watched her be so tense and he squinted. He never wanted to see her like that again. He shifted towards her and nosed her neck. "I am sorry. Some jobs are riskier than others I suppose.." Peska spoke gently to her. "If you do not see a happiness within who you are Aleksi.. Maybe it is time to really look at yourself.. and not to your future or your past. One can only change when they look within oneself. That is what Dad has told me.."

Watching her seethe at the description of a walker, he would nod at her. "Opi's told me.. They were born with that darkness." He would state out loud to Aleksei. He wouldn't be surprised knowing so much about the world that walker colt and fillies were slaughtered by this ruby warrior. "I have met hybrids who are kind. Never a full Kalona to be correct." Shrugging a little. Everyone had a little evil in them.

He paused as she questioned his words, though it was a soft tone in her voice it still had a bit of a bitter agony behind them. He would stop at her side and steady his hooves below him. "I don't think it happens instantly, Aleksei. I may be a young sheep dog but I'm not foolish." He urged his opinions out. "I think that peace will take time. But the peace will only come to you if you are the one who truly wants it. It's like quitting a habit. The only time the habit can be quitted is if the one with the habit really wants to." He spoke intelligently to her.

He paused in his thoughts and let something small distract him, something on her. A glint of ruby colour or one of her marvelous mazes. "Although things can happen in seconds or minutes. It takes hours, days, months and sometimes years to get ready for that moment." He breathed out. "It is soulfully up to you if you feel the need to change such a large part in your life."