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Shadow stretched, his mouth wide open in a yawn. Winter was here and the snow was everywhere. Ever since Nani's near death experience in the snow pit, he was careful around her and tried to keep her away from the snow. He had left her in the warm den with his parents and had snuck out yet again to go to the North. That Kane pup was from the North and Shadow, being competitive again, wanted to be more knowlegdable than Kane on the ways of living on the snow. Of course, jealousy helped fuel this desire. He ran through the snow, tripping once when a leg fell through soft snow. Spread toes. Right. He started running again, just to run. It was his first time in the North and he didn't know where he could go, anyways.

Shadow suddenly turned, sending a wave of snow over Flower unintentionally. He had been meaning to practice turning without slipping until he heard a small, girly voice. Well... he figured he should have stopped but he wanted to try turning at least once. "Hello?" he called. Flower was under a layer of snow but he didn't know that and he looked around, wondering if voices always spoke to helixes in the North.

"Hmm?" Shadow said to the air. He was facing away from her and his tail swayed. He still thought it was a random voice. Tales of the cold north and all that had died in its pitiless claws were famous bedtime stories parents told to get their pups to listen. He didn't believe it before but perhaps he was wrong. However, he was still confused by the words he heard. Did ghosts get hurt? He perked his ears thoughtfully, wondering how one could help make a ghost feel better.

"Sure?" Shadow replied tentativly to the ghost. "What do you need?" he asked, wondering if this was a good idea. What if it wanted something he couldn't provide or wasn't willing to give? Having never met a ghost before, he had no idea what they would be capable of and he frowned. He needed to think before he did things. Nani often did that and he often relied upon her but he couldn't all the time. So he tried to be like her in some ways at least. Obviously, he wasn't very good at it yet. When he felt something n** his tail, his fur bristled. He was nervous thinking about the ghost and he spun around quickly, baring his fangs, hoping to maybe show the ghost that he shouldn't be meddled with. But then he saw a pup. "Who are you?" he asked, chuckling at the predicament she was in. He prodded her cheek some, wondering how she managed to get herself buried like that.

Shadow laughed at her words, his tail waving in the air. "The great and mighty Flower stuck in the snow, eh?" he taunted. He was... well, a male adolescent. He couldn't help but be rude. "Flowers die in the snow." he laughed. "Especially with Shadow around!" He puffed out his chest fur, trying to make a dramatic entrance with what he thought was a creative introduction to his name. "Don't worry, though." he said in a mockingly soothing voice. "I'll help you."

Taking light steps over the snow so that he wouldn't fall in himself, he padded up to her, testing the snow with his paw. "So how'd you get in here again?" he asked, trying to keep himself from laughing again. He thought she was quite a comical sight, with just her head and shoulders poking out. Without waiting for a reply, he gripped the scruff of her neck and tugged.