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Makhesthai breathed heavily through his nose and his tongue hanging loosely from his mouth in a hard pant, his chest heaving with the effort he was putting in, the muscles of his new arms trembling with fatigue yet he kept on going. The Tirones Minor was determined that no more would he be a useless parasite on the clan, sucking up their resources whilst offering them nothing back in return. Again and again he heaved his body upwards with just his arms grasping onto the low lying branch of the tree, the youngest of the Lykoi clan pushed his small body to its limit and then some.
He had been loitering around the old mansion that several of the clan lived in, the Forest of Nod was an interesting place for a child to explore and he had followed an old coyote scent to the huge mansion. Wandering around its perimeter and scouting out the gardens attached to it. He didn't enter the building itself as the little pup was too afraid to go in alone and after almost falling into the empty swimming pool, although Makhesthai did not understand that its purpose was for swimming in when filled with water to him it had simply been a giant pointless hole in the ground.
His grip on the branch loosened slightly and he adjusted it, his claws digging into the aged bark with a slight scratching noise. He was proud of himself today because he had managed to shift from his four legged form to his two legged form and it had taken less time than the last time he had done it. It was this small amount of pride in his slowly increasing abilities that kept his arms working long after he would have normally given up on his own.
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The boy was not a stupid boy, for a child abused as he was and kept from the knowledge that pups would learn from their mothers he was actually quire smart. But then the pup needed no mother, Inferni was his teacher and guide, its members soon to be his brothers and sister as they all fought to keep the clan safe from those who would threaten them. It was that thought that kept the pup pushing his body past where any other would have given up, unknowing that the very woman who he wanted to prove useful to was watching him with her bloodied gaze and assuming mind.
As the woman came out from within the mansion still Makhesthai did not notice her presence although the feeling of being watched, one that he could trace well back into his younger days even before he had opened his eyes, prickled over his shoulders in awareness. Before Maki could twist around to see who it was, the rush of air let him know that some part of an anatomy was speeding towards his body. He let go of the branch with the intent to dodge by dropping but the fist still caught him in the side and sent the boy spinning away from the tree. The coybrid child twisted his body around to face his attacker, falling back into a stance that could only be described as defensive with his hands raised up as though to protect himself and was surprised to find Miss Halo the one who had struck him while he had been training himself.
The pup immediately bowed in respect to the fierce sub leader although still holding himself at the ready for another attack, Halo did not do anything without a reason and Maki assumed this was something she was teaching him.
"Ma'am." The word was not a question, it was a statement, a simple acknowledgement that she was here and he had noticed her and a mesure of respect