Was it so bad to leave the den? He had thought about it for a relatively short amount of time before deciding. He liked home and the chamber Rin kept him in but there were so many more interesting things just outside the familiar zone he knew. Rin wouldn’t like it, he knew, but managed for his curiosities sake to give that little thought. A new smell, one he hadn’t smelled in this realm of familiarity was close. I’ll just go see what it is and be back before Rin notices. before the thought was even finished he’d put his nose to the ground and pressed forward into the den area.
The resulting scene started with him running face first into a strange wolf who had been sitting unfairly still and quiet and ended with Rin finding him. Both left Zeus feeling a bit unruly but he knew better than to run from Rin. He waited with tail tucked for the stern grip on his scruff and wiggled in her jaw only a few moments before submitting and whining his apologies solemnly. He didn’t like to upset his caretaker when she was often so nice. But his guilt didn’t last very long and even as she was lowering him to the ground his legs were flailing for contact. His claws scraped twice but he didn’t move until she let him go. Zeus then quickly dashed around behind her where he knew he’d be harder to reach if she suddenly wished to punish him further.
The body he hid behind spoke but not to him. Then another voice spoke up in response. He sat on his Rin’s tail for a moment and listened. Quickly he came to the conclusion that they were just going to start talking boring grown-up talk. In no time at all Zeus cut a large area around the stranger he’d run into and wandered a bit farther into the den area. Rin had scolded him for exploring before but she hadn’t told him not to now or exactly how far he was not to go. He practiced the ‘mental map’ of sorts he had been building over his time living in the dens. The ground felt different and curtain points and smells changed. The stranger called “X’Uri” had mucked it up a bit but his smell wasn’t that hard to ignore and the pup soon found himself proudly able to anticipate what was ahead as he ventured along. He stayed close enough not to upset his caretaker for a time of course but pushed that boundary innocently after a few minutes. Slowly he would move out, come back, and move out again, every time meandering a wee bit further.
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