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He had wandered.

Again.

Wandered far from Vesp's side when he slept in the night and Rinon's mind was awake with ideas and fantasies of the galaxies that he could not shake. Things were starting to come back, memories, thoughts, concepts that the youth barely understood.

His long legs carried him into nowhere, into oblivion, toward the mountains where he hoped to get a better look at those that beckoned him. But when he got to their edge, the base his slender snout pitching skyward he scented the barrier markers of the pack that lived here and he froze. Legs locking him into place, his ears rotated backwards slowly, crimson eyes blinking as he contemplated his next move.

Maybe he should just trespass, it was worth it to be able to understand that which pulled at his heart and soul, but he couldn't get his legs to move his body knowing that the danger might be greater than the reward, so he sat, and stared up at the mountain peaks.

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