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[shrinerbaby]

Caelestis

It was rare for the slender wolf to find himself away from his brother's side. He wouldn't be now if Amadeus wasn't such a dreadful bore. Everything was hunting and scouting the border and dealing with pack diplomacy. Cael felt that with every day that passed, Ammy became even more boring. If you had asked the Caelestis of a year prior if he thought it possible he would have denied it. Yet, here he stood alone just to keep from being put to sleep.

"It's okay, Caelestis," he told himself. "You're enough excitement all on your own! You don't need that smelly snowbrain." It was a lie, of course. The slim creature would be lost without his brother. Each would be lost without the other, if truth were to be told. Good luck getting either to admit to it, though.

For now the delicate looking arctic wolf stood on the bank of the creek and peered down into the gently trickling water. There was a thin dusting of snow on the frozen ground and it lent a sort of magical quality to the area. At least, Caelestis thought so, and in the end wasn't that all that really mattered? His black lips curled up into a grin that let his pink tongue loll out. His breath puffed out in a visible vapor before him and those dark amber eyes watched a few lazy fish swim just beneath the surface.

"I bet Tristy would love it if I brought her a nice fish." He dipped his muzzle and sniffed and snuffled a few times. The delicate male had never really tried to catch a fish before. Still, bears did it all the time so it couldn't be that hard. Everyone knew how stupid bears were. He drew in a breath and shoved his face down into the creek suddenly, snapping fruitlessly in the water as he wagged his tail wildly behind him.

[Midnight]

Midnight snorted. Were all males that fluff-brained? she thought, licking her chops. This one looked like an oversized pup trying to drown himself.

Rolling her eyes from her tree across the river, she thumped to the ground. Head neither low nor high, she padded over to the river and splashed across. It was only about knee-deep in wolf standards.

Coming out the other side, she would drink the cool water, not worried about being scented. For some reason, she didn't have a scent to others, ecept for her friends, who learned to identify it overtime. No matter, though. The thump should have been loud enough to anounce herself.

"Hey, your splashing me."

[shrinerbaby]

Caelestis

The lithe creature honestly hadn't heard Midnight drop out of the tree she had been perched in. If you remember, he had his head in the water and he was thrashing about most violently. He didn't even notice her when she crossed the creek and came to stand quite near him. It wasn't until she spoke aloud, chastising him for splashing her, that he lifted his head from the churning water. He was soaked down to his chest and his fur clumped together. Still, he would say it make him look roguish and dashing rather than messy.

"Well, you weren't here when I started splashing, so you must have knowingly walked into the splashing. That, my dear, makes your getting wet entirely your fault and not mine," he said with a rakish grin and a wink of those bold, yellow eyes.

He hadn't caught a fish--obviously--but he didn't seem to be very disappointed about it. Instead, he gave himself a shake to splash her again and gave his tail a playful wag. He was still a puppy, even at four years. He'd probably be a puppy until the day he slid free of his body and went to haunt his boring brother in the afterlife. And you know that Amadeus would die off first. He was far too boring to last long.

[Midnight]

She snorted. "My dear? Ok, well, you shouldn't have been trying to catch a fish like that anyway. You do it like this," with that she would lean to the side over the water and scoop and fish out, let it wriggle, then, before he could pounce on it, flip it back into the water.

Midnight noticed the puppy-like look on his face, and grinned, some of her puppyness coming back too. Nipping and pulling his ear, she would launch herself into the sky, hover and watch him, and then take off close to the ground.

'Lets see how fast you really are...' she thought.

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[shrinerbaby]

Caelestis

The slim white wolf gave a toss of his head and laughed. "See, I'm right and you change the subject! My brother does that too. Everyone does that. 'Cept me. See, I can admit when I've done something wrong." He lifted his head high and gave an absolutely impish grin. "Don't worry though, I won't judge you. That's not what I'm here for. I'm here to catch a fish for Tristy."

The playfully arrogant male watched as she effortlessly pulled the fish from the water with a swipe of her paw and gave a derisive snort. She made it look so easy, but he know it wasn't. Still, it stung his pride just a bit and he was going to have an old-fashioned sulk. At least he got a fish out of the--"Hey! Wait!" But it was too late. The fish had been tossed back into the water and set free. He puffed his chest out and huffed his aggravation.

"What did you do that for? That's a perfect waste of a good fish! Tristy would have loved that fish. How am I supposed to convince her that she should fall for my boring brother if I can't even bring her a fish? Ow!" The winged fae had given his ear a good tug and then had taken off! And people thought he was the quirky one.

"Hey! Come back here! I need a fish!"

[Midnight]

Midnight stopped flying and returned to him. "Have a fancy for your brothers girlfriend, huh? Well, if you really want to impress her, give her a fish you caught yourself. Not some fish you beat out of a helpless femm." she finished, gaining a very innocent look. Then she snorted. "Not that I can't handle you." she added as an afterthought.

"Look, the trick is this: the water redirects the light so you think the fish is lower in the water than it really is. So, aim sightly above and in front of it, as the fish will be moving. You've seen a bear do it; it's generally the same thing."

"...and yes, I do admit that getting wet was my fault, smartie-paws." She stuck her tongue out at him. "Were is your brother and the fae? I wanna meet them."

((OoC: what does the title mean?))