As the days grew warmer, Oak felt increasingly happier. He had spent the remainder of the winter and the entire spring hunting for the pack as Alder had suggested, improving his skill in reading with Kansas, and exploring the world outside of his comfortable home. Though he enjoyed the stories he had read, as the days grew warmer he could not sit still with a book like the mysterious, pale man seemed to do all the time. Oak preferred to be out and about, and during the past several months, he had discovered countless beautiful places. The world was as magnificent as it was gigantic, and the boy almost could not believe that it spanned far, far beyond what he would ever see. Still, he was happy with all that he had seen.
Since his ill-fated visit to Inferni, the crimson and ivory youth was wary of treading close to the lands of other packs, but somehow his paws took him just beyond the southwestern border of Crimson Dreams and toward what he understood to be AniWaya. He had heard only good things about it, and since he was too tired from a long night of tracking elk for an extended journey into unclaimed lands, he wished to go no further and figured that he might as well satisfy his curiosity about the tribal pack. He paused well away from its borders, tilted his two-toned maw toward the bright blue sky. His call rang loud and confident, belying the anxiety of his past experience. Cobalt eyes gazed ahead with uncertainty as he sat on his haunches to await whomever would come to answer him.
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