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Damn. His brother was fast, very fast. León breathed fast and deep as she leant over with his hands on his knees. Out of his litter siblings he had been the fastest one of the three of them but now he found himself flagging seriously behind. He caught his breath for a few seconds and then began forwards again following his older brother's scent. The taunting voice came from the surrounding trees and León grinned, laughing along with J'adore as his giggling León found hilarious and silly. The tri colored male wove in and out of the trees circling around in hopes that J'adore was hiding behind one of the trees he was near, he called out to his brother with his laughter clear in his voice,

"I am coming for you mi hermano. I will find you wherever you hide, you cannot hide from me." He began to jog back and forth now, his footsteps echoing off the trees and forest that surrounded him making it impossible for someone to pinpoint exactly where he was. J'adore's scent was getting stronger so he was getting closer to his brother. Now that he was closer León called out again, intending to find where his sibling was from the direction his voice came from,

"Where are you my brother, you know that I am coming." He sniggered to himself, enjoying their game thoroughly. It had been a long time since he had been able to play in this way without so many cares. Analise she was too young for him to let out of his sight unless he knew exactly where she was like today she was playing back in J'adore's home. The younger Austral male tooth a deep breath and looked around himself, determined to find his surprisingly elusive brother

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León was getting closer to J'adore's hiding place for his voice was getting louder and his scent stronger, the lupine man looking upwards to the trees now because the voice was coming from upwards as well as from away from him. He laughed at his brother's taunting words

"They only run from you hermano because you lumber towards them like a great beast, I on the other paw am as gentle and soft as a breeze and they respect that." He was now passing right under the tree that J'adore was stood in and as the chocolate and earth colored beast looked up into the tree just as at least 150 pounds of wolf leaped from the branch onto him

His laugh that built in his throat suddenly exited his maw in a great rush of breath as his brother's body crushed him into the earthy leaf littered floor. He rolled in the vegetation, trying to pin J'adore down on his back his strength making up for his slower speediness, although one would not guess from his structure that he held the strength in his muscles that he did. The rage of a wise youth snaked through his veins, and the Elan Soquili liked the feel of it flowing around his body. His heart however was mostly dead from the prospective of mate love, he knew that he would never take another female in all the rest of his years to mate although carnal happenings may occur, the knowledge that he would spend the rest of his life alone weighed heavily on the male's shoulders.

He let go of J'adore and the golden black male climbed to his feet, brushing the first from his pelt as though he was of aristocracy, León followed suit in getting to his feet although he left his fur be, the months of traveling had hardened him against the elements. He smiled at the Otlvna Gata, pride of his hermano's opinion coming through. Then the white gaze facing upon him turned serious and all traces of play and fun left the younger man's demeanor. J'adore wanted to talk about the trouble with that gang, and León's gaze turned to angry stone, his white eyes reflecting his rage.

The younger man took to pacing back and forth as he answered the question,

"I caught them trying to take her, the gang of wolves from Italy. They said she was promised to someone, I cannot remember who but I do not believe them. Madre would have told us if there was such a danger. Several times they tried to start fights with Padre that would have ended in his incapacitation but myself, Arena and Isla always managed to intervene..." The earth and chocolate male stopped his pacing to look at his brother and then resumed it again. "I left to get Analise away from that, I did not want her involved." The Austral man would never regret removing his daughter from that situation, it had been the best decision, Ayanette and Jandro had both agreed, their granddaughter's life was more important.

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Te brother looked glumly too, and nodded at his hermano, "Madre was always secretive, even with myself and the others but.. i do not know. Maybe she got sick of keeping secrets." He watched as J'adore scowled to himself and wished he knew what his brother was thinking, wished sometimes he knew what his daughter was thinking too. His life would be made infinitely easier if he could read the minds of others. The earth and chocolate man rubbed at his face with a paw, still not stopping his pacing backwards and forwards along the grass and leaf litter.

"What else could I do? A young pup would have stood no chance against trained thugs. As for my brother and sister, of them I do not know. They were still at home when I set off and it seemed like they intended to remain for some time." J'adore's hope of returning to Santander was not returned by the younger man, he had no wish to return to the place of his birth, the memories of it were too overwhelming and too fresh, his mate was not even a year deceased and he had put himself as far away from her burial site as possible.

He stopped pacing as J'adore put a hand on his shoulder and looked up, the matching gazes of white meeting. He nodded, none of them needed to finish that question and hopefully it would not for a long long time, many years into the future. Then suddenly,

"My mate was Italian... I met her up there while I was searching..." The brown man's voice cracked slightly and wavered. He realised he had never cried for his lost mate, at the time of her death he had been too busy trying to make sure that his daughter did not die from starvation. Then after that too busy looking after her, his thoughts always revolved around Analise and the white eyed man would not have it any other way. Though now while she was safe and he could worry less for her, a small trickled down his cheek as he looked away from his brother and up through the trees to the sky.