A long time ago, they could have been friends. They were both warriors, both well-versed in their schools. Ezekiel would have loved to be able to speak and spar with someone again. These days he shadow-boxed and found that this was equally frustrating. Something downright holy was what he felt when he spoke the true language of combat, bypassing words for what the body could say.
Even now, he could read her own. Halo was not a girl who he intended to cross, but her subtle movements did not pass him by. He had asked her to come merely to keep her happy in her role as his second-in-command. Both she and Sage had been lacking, recently, and the resentment in the golden-red Aquila was growing swiftly. He finished with the water and motioned for her to continue on.
They reached the borders not long after, and only once they had passed them did the scarred coyote turn to his cousin. “We should approach from the east,” was all he said.
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