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[All is well luv >3 dont worry about it. She was moved...somehow ;D

xD!!! No clue, cause I pronounce it like Oyko xDDD Leaving the A silent! XD or i'll say it Ieeko or something xD]

Soul arched her neck back on the ground. Looking up to the male. Grinning slightly, she stumbled up to a sitting position, and licked at Isaac's muzzle. 'Just long enough' she laughed and moved a bit closer to him, craning her neck, she nuzzled into Isaac's neck fur and let out a gurgle sound. She then flicked her ears back and looked to his leg. 'Are you alright?' she let out a whimper as she looked at him hopefully.

Soul could just see Elphie's jaw snap up. She turned her head slightly, and then gulped down. She forgot that Elphie HADN'T known of Isaac and herselfs 'Relationship.' She let out a sigh, and then turned her attention back to Isaac, if Elphie truely wanted to know, she'd come over and ask...wouldn't she?

(( Aoiko? *laughs* I always thought of it as Owwie-ko. XD

@ Jade -- O_O SERIOUSLY? That's SO cool! I must have still been gone. ,_,
Who were the others? =D

xD Heehee.. Elphie as a shaman.. *imagines*

Shaman!Elphie: NEKA. Let me.. uh.. HEAL your crippled features! Then we can frollick together through the forests! XBB ))

A drink it was, then. The brown wolf gave Neka a lopsided grin, still a little off from her surprise at Isaac and Soul. She crouched momentarily, almost in a playbow, her eyes meeting Neka's golden gaze in a quick smile, before promptly bounding off to the side. She took a couple more leaps towards the creek, decelerating as she neared.

(( My dog does that to me all the time. Before he runs off somewhere he has to jump at me, like to tell me he's going. xD ))

Elphie nosed at the thawed edge of the stream, a silver ribbon of flowing water that crept around the ice still frozen towards the middle. She drank quickly, more for the sake of following her own words than to satisfy any real thirst, but the water was refreshing. So. That Isaac wolf was with the pack now. Soul trusted him, apparently. Elphie wasn't so sure, but Isaac seemed lame. He wouldn't be able to cause any trouble, would he? Still.. that one memorable time Elphie had met the wolf he had seemed.. capable of doing things without the use of his body. But that was absurd. Who had ever heard of a wolf like that?

She trotted back towards Neka and the rest of the group. Her caution towards Isaac did not put much of a damper on her good mood. "I'm back," She wuffed to Neka, with more than a hint of a smirk.

She caught sight of the cocky grin the other male shot her and a wave of uneasiness washed over her. She pushed her instincts down momentarily, being polite, though admittedly more for Soul's sake. "Isaac--" Her tone was muddled, but it quickly transitioned to a lighter, if not a little forced, one. "How long ago did you join our pack?" Her lips twitched up in a nervous smile that strengthened a little when she looked at Soul.

Neka dropped to his belly in the grass and yawned, jaw clicking as it snapped back together. Isaac was giving a blithe smile before he picked idly at the fur between his pawpads.

As Elphie trotted back into view, he barked at her and let his tail drag across the ground in a quick wag. He'd have gotten up, but his back was bothering him enough to make him take advantage of some downtime. He listened quietly to conversation that didn't really involve him, glancing from speaker to speaker but lingering longer on the brown femme as she spoke.

(Yeah, they met...but it was really brief I think.)

Giving Isaac's muzzle a quick lick, she looked to Elphie and flattened her ears. She could feel a bit of tension still building up with the group. Which never eased her thoughts about Isaac, and his past. Her eyes fell upon the blue male's figure and she could only smile as he spoke. She looked up briefly to the sky, and then back to Isaac. He was...so humorous.

'Elphie doesn't need to pick them up, they follow her tail like those pesky flies' flashing a toothy grin to Elphie, she wagged her tail and yipped playfully.

Neka managed a look of mock-severity, a solemn rumble sounding in his chest at Soul's remark. "'ey now," he drawled, flashing his canines in what was meant to be a very non-threatening manner. "Eh like ta think ehm ah little better than a bunch o'bugs." He hardly looked offended, understanding Soul's attempt to cheer his friend up. To Elphie, he gave a sympathetic whine as he sat up with only a little effort.

"Yeh'll see tha' litter soon, eh would guess. Pups ah nothing to be jealous ov'r...ehm sure yeh'll get along with 'em just the same as if yeh saw them the mornin' of 'em bein' born."

Still, he looked as apologetic as he felt. The male felt somewhat guilty at slowing Elphie's return to her "family" and took the female's distraught nature in on himself. Maybe he should have let her come back alone.

No.

Even then he knew that he probably wouldn't have let her do that unless he was left unaware of her disappearance. Then he'd have felt the abandonment so keenly that perhaps he'd have never moved from his favored tree and wasted away as had been his original plan before meeting Elphie the first night. She was all the family he had left, or so he figured. Notoka had pretty much rejected his brotherly affections even if it meant the alpha was left to reign over a little dirt heap and nothing more.

Soul simply smiled to Elphie and Neka. He seemed worthy of her friend's love. Well...if she truely loved him, which seemed to be true. Her tail wagged across the ground once more as she fiddled with her paws. She looked to Isaac, and with the look he gave her, she could only smile...A sheepish, uneasy smile that caused her to move closer towards him. Sticking her head under his, and pushing her shoulder against his chest, in a protective manner. She might have taken this look the wrong way, but no matter what the real reason to this glance was, she still had the right to make loving gestures to her mate...it was natural...right? Her ear's flicked up as she watched Isaac's movements.

Something tingled within' her, yet just barely. She thought only of it as a sudden chilling spaz attack she had every now and then. Random they were. She blinked a few times, then quickly turned in shock as Isaac fell to her forepaws, and placing his nose into her fur, he lay. She cocked a brow slightly, and then smiled. Only hearing mumbles come from her mates maw, she bent forward and licked at the males forehead. placeing her moist nose to his, and then bending back up to face the others. She could only think of one thing...I'm so glad your here...I love you so much.

It seemed she was the only content one at the moment. With a toothy grin that spread from ear to ear, she sat. Eye's, golden, stareing into the empty wooded area, then back to Elphie, Neka, and her love, Isaac. The others...seemed to have many things running through their minds. She could almost see it in their expressions...but what...why would they think...no, look this way...only when her mate...Isaac...was about. Disreguarding this for the moment, she broke the uneasy silence with a yap. 'So...You and Elphie...are together?' pointing her viberant face towards Neka, she spoke with a slight stammer in her tone. Herer ears cocked slightly, as if she was clueless as to what the answer could be. Yet she knew. It was obvious. But, it was also the only way she'd be able to crack the uncomfortable silence.