Humble Retaliation

[London Ayers]

((In the Umbra))
Fawrion looked down as Rumor rolled over and submitted himself. She can only imagine she looked more ridiculous.
"Never make me do that again" She said in a low tone. He slowly rolled back over, tapped a paw to her leg and said quietly, "You're it!" And took off like a shot passed her. She looked straight ahead, her face a mixture of frustration and the will to not smile. 'Hope he learn somesing' she thought. She turned, raised her hammer, and went lumbering off after the little wolf, a war-ish cry eminating. She rounded the webbed corner of the bar and came to a hault. Fawrion looked around curiously. 'Where he go?" She thought. She slung her hammer over her shoulder and made a big show at a mock sneak looking for the pup who had caused such a stir.
"I will find you", She said in her think Russian accent as she continued to play the game a of tag she might never win.

[Cookie]

Sophia gets up from her spot to find out what's going on...."umm, what exactly is going on? You don't chase things with your hammer unless you mean business."

[London Ayers]

Fawrion whips around ready to strike, but stops short on the swing, practically dropping the hammer at her feet. "Sophia!" She calls in surprise. Fawrion stammers for a moment and works to compose herself. She felt like a kid again, caught with her hand in the pie tin.

"I was chasing wolf puppy who cause trouvle. He want to play game, so I play. Aldo, I not play well. I can no fine him. He hide like shadow." She shrugs. "It not important. What you doing out here in de colt?"

[Cookie]

Sophia jumps a little..."Don't worry about him I have it all taken care of..." Looks behind her... "I am out here thinking about somethings, mostly about the crossroads the other night." she rotates her shoulder a little bit. "Just seems strange that the ground in the Umbra was messed up...We should check on that soon."

[London Ayers]

"Same thought crossed mind. But as Alpha is no here, I am... not sure what to do. I want to take us back there and look around, but I do not want to get to trouvle again." She stood and pondered for a while. "Perhaps after we hear what others fint, we go back and look? Be more careful dat way. Give more time for alpha, so we can tell him, but still go do."

[Cookie]

Shudders a little and checks around...just in case..."I think that will be the best thing we can do, I want to do a rite on the stone and see if I can find out who it 'belonged' to, if I can do that it might lead Us to whoever did the whatever in the Umbra."

[London Ayers]

"Then let us find Ereboos, and a quiet place to do dat." Fawrion shoulders her hammer and goes back inside the pub in search of the little shy scruff Sophie called a brother.

[Cookie]

Sophia does a quick glance around her..."Find my brother? Have you learned nothing in the years You have been with Us?" she snorts just a little "Finding Erebus is like finding...finding...I don't know what to compare it with but it's a hard thing to do, for me at least." "He has spent a lot of years trying to keep it hard on people. When He is found We should put a bell on His neck so We know where He is." Sophia takes another glance around the room and mutters..."wish I knew if They were around the corner."

[Hides-in-the-Web]

Erebus pokes His head around the corner... "You know if You need me We have pack link for a reason...silly girls." With a look of unease He looks over His shoulder... "So what's going on? Is Our fearless leader back yet?" Looks at his sister with a smile... "Everything will be all right little one nothing to fear with Us here to protect you."

[Cookie]

Sophia looks up to her brother... "I know that We have pack link and please don't call me silly." She quickly looks away from her brother, and searches the room without luck... "To answer the rest of Your silly Ragabash questions, We are making a plan to go back to the crossroads, in the Umbra of course, and try to find out what did the whatever. Second, Our Alpha is not back yet, don't call Him a fearless leader it's kinda rude." Looking back up at her brother and Beta "I know it will be fine, You just know I feel better when We are all together."

[London Ayers]

"He will return when he finished. Remember, he do everything for reason, even if we not know it. Will find out in time" Fawrion turns to Erebus. "As for you, you not always answer when called." She throws her arms around the two and guides the towards a slightly wooded area she had spotted earlier.

"Do your thing, leettle wolf." She said nudging Sophia slightly, even though it almost knocked the Black Fury off her feet.

[Rumor]

Black fur and feral eyes glare from behind a nearby tree. In twilight he blends with the shadows that surround him, and from his location he has been listening intently to his pack speak, but completely without understanding. A quick yip signals his presence, and he tilts his head to the side in curiosity while watching his beta.

[London Ayers]

Fawrion's head whipped to the side, suddenly alert to the call of her pack mate. A sly, wicked grin crossed her face and she chucks her hammer over his head, shattering the tree in a spray of bark, down onto Rumor. She giggled a little at the mess, then recalled her hammer. "We go to ask stones questions. Find Lulu and bring her here. I want to be able to keep you all safe, just in case, and I'm not yet sure I trust others in bar." She said brokenly in Romany with a gesture to run. She hoped she could keep them all together, even if something had happened to her Alpha. They were the next best thing to family she had found, and she wasn't ready to let that go.

[Rumor]

Rumor ducked as the hammer flew over his head. After the bark had settled where it would, he brought himself to attention. Though he could not translate the beta's request, he could feel it through the connection they shared. Without pause, he lept from the shadows and ran into the bar.

[Cookie]

((in the Umbra just to remind everyone))


Chuckles at the mess made by the hammer..."He kinda deserved it." She mutters.

(in pack link) I think it best if We leave the territory of the Elder Pack as to not cause problems. That is the last thing We need, more problems.

Shifting to lupus she runs to 'her' tree. Shifting back to homid she remembers the deal she has, climbs the tree and leaves a piece of mirror on one of the branches.

Sophia looks around hoping against hope that her Alpha would be watching off in the distance..."Ok, so lets getting this started. I just need some time to concentrate on the stone pieces." Sophia digs in her bag, a gift from her mother, and searches for the pendulum the she uses for this rite and this rite alone. This pendulum means so much to her, given to her by her Father on one of His trips to see the Family, He gave it to her after she mastered the Rite of the Questing Stone. She finds it in the bottom of her bag, her face beams with happiness as she remembers the last time she saw her Father.

Sophia puts the pieces of the stone in a small pile on the ground, holds the pendulum by the string over the stone, closing her eyes, she waits...

[Rumor]

(in pack link) "There is no reason for us to leave thier territory. Whats done is done, and I refuse to put my tail between my legs and run like a coward. Our beta was subjected to the whim of an easily provoked elder, and though I questioned his disrespect to those beneath him, his frustration was unbending. My supplication to Fawrion was the best I knew how to do, and the game afterward was to blow off steam and let us remember that we hurt and play as a family. Our pack is formed from this, and our blood requires that we not carry our grudges to others of it."

[Cookie]

(in pack link) "I am not leaving because of that, its their territory I will do not a rite without permission on their territory. I know better."

[Rumor]

(in pack link) "Then ask them. Leaving the protection of the elder's territory to do a rite does not show trust in the will of our elders. A Bandoleer would want to be at least a small part of all spiritual matters, so why would it be any different with the Grand Elder and his pack-mates?"

((Definition - Bandoleer: Gypsy King or Queen of a specific "tribe."))

[London Ayers]

(in pack link) "I hold no bad against Rumor. I made a mistake, and I take my punishment wit pride. It was fun to chase after small wolf. Even more fun to make mess of him." She smiles to herself. "As for camp matters, spirit leader seem not want to hear of progress and what to be done. Telling did noting but get punishment. We do dis here and now, territory not matter in dis case. They know we here and do dis." She shrugs.

[Cookie]

Sophia looks around... and notices that no one followed her... as she starts to panic she shifts to lupus... (in pack link) "ummm where did Everyone go?" She looks around her one last time before she runs back to her Pack.