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The female was able to spend a little more time away from her pups now that they were nearly a month old - they needed her for food, but their feedings were slowly becoming more spaced apart. This meant that she could leave them with her sister or with Ravesque for short periods of time and that she could begin to take up her pack duties once more. She was relieved for this; Naniko was beginning to teach the pups life lessons already, but her duties to Anathema could not be ignored. Normally she wouldn't have minded taking them with her, if she was simply visiting her packmates or walking through the territory, but today she planned on heading out to the border to scout a little.
She had been keeping to her Lupus form during feeding times, shifting back to her preferred Optime form for doing needed tasks. Naniko hadn't expected to find anyone at the border or need to defend herself on this day (they had gone a few weeks without anyone disturbing their border area), so she had felt alright with staying in her Lupus form. She was large for her species, tipping the scales in both height and length. That was at least one thing that the alabaster Angela had inherited from her absent father, his size. She'd also been given his jade colored eyes.
Naniko yawned a bit as she padded along the border, tail swishing idly from side to side behind her. A peculiar scent came to her nose, becoming stronger and stronger as she walked toward it. She wasn't expecting to find anyone at the border and slowed down a little, looking cautiously ahead before continuing to walk to the area in which the smell seemed the strongest. "Hello? Who's there?" She called through the trees.