Calla barked playfully and Rio returned the bark and tackled her making a playful growl. Calla and Rio began to play along with the other pack members, everything was right again.
Faux backed away a bit surprised, "Sorry." she looked away quickly. She watched Calla play and longed to join them but Faux was a fox not a wolf so she watched instead, Faux missed Kenji and hoped she was doing ok. (Woo 500 posts)
Dusty stepped forward toward Dark. "Dark, ah might have been shot, and out for a bit, but ah know whens somethings wrong with a pony. Whats got you up in a knot bud?" Dusty looked worried but happy.
Darks right eye turns back to white, & his left eye turned greenish-brown, & he said,"just... I don't wanna talk about it."
Faux looked cautiously around Dusty towards Dark, lifted into the air a bit then landed on a wooden stump. "We're here to help, you can tell us whats wrong, but if you don't want to that's fine too." Faux smiled.
Dusty seemed to try to figure out Dark, but eventually just sighed. "Ah understand Dark, everypony's got his share of stories. If'en you don't want to talk about it we can't make you, it's plain wrong to try." Dusty smiled at Dark then turned toward an opening in the forest. "Ah'll be right back, ah got to see whats up ahead." Dusty took a step forward, then stretched. He slowly trotted through the trees exploring what was nearby.
Faux nodded then jumped off the wood stump then to the second crate to look through, this time she found guns, ammo and towards the bottom a few thick files of paper. "Whats this?" Faux mumbled and flipped through them.
Dusty called through the trees. "Ah'm not going far, just a walk to stretch my legs." Dusty returned and saw Faux running through papers. " Whatcha got there Ms. Faux?"
Faux continued to flip through the pages, "Im not sure but they have pictures of all these animals.. See they even have pictures of Calla." Faux spoke quietly so Calla would hear. She handed the pages to Dusty for him to read then dove back into the crate looking for some more.
Dusty sorted through the papers. "It looks like these poachers were after more than just Calla. Ah reckon they were after all the animals they could get out here." Dusty looked at all the animal's pictures. "Well ah did see more than 1 camp from the ledge. Guess we got nothing left to do but find and free the animals."
"Should we tell Calla now?" Faux looked over to Calla who was still playing with Rio. "I'de hate to ruin her time.."
"It's not Ms. Calla's fight. We took on this adventure, not her." Dusty looked at Calla and smiled. "It doesn't hurt to ask though."
Dusty smiled to Faux warmly. "Ah'm sure Ms. Calla would be glad to help." Dusty patted Faux on the back. "Ah'm sure she'll listen to you."
