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While Tosca and Una actually played, Kai concentrated on her younger brother.
"I gotchya!" Kai laughed, tail wagging madly. "And I'm gonna get you next Rowtag!" she added, grinning at her other brother.
But before she went to chase the darker wolf, she noticed Twilight alone in the shadows.
"Come on and play with us!" she called unsurely.

Twilight looked at her and for a moment, he didn't see a young white wolf. His eyes glazed over and she seemed replaced by a grey wolf pup with a curious mark on her forehead in the shape of a 'V'. She had called out those very same words to him, almost two and a half years ago. A face that he found he missed more and more each day. He blinked a couple of times and brought his mind back into the present. He gave her a rueful smile. "I think I'll pass, my dear. But thank you for offering, just the same." he said. The black wolf settled to the ground and laid his head on his front paws as he watched them.

Kai smiled politely back, then spun around and tackled the closest wolf to her... which happened to be poor Yuma again.

Meanwhile, Tosca and Una had run off all of their extra energy and returned to plop down a few feet away from Twilight.
"Now we should really start planning about where to go next" Una panted.
"Oh give it a rest" Tosca scowled. "We just woke up"
Grumpily placing her head on her paws, the tawny wolf noticed Twilight ot of the corner of her eye.
"What's got you distracted?"

The black wolf's yellow eyes flicked a sidelong glance at the brown wolf before he closed them and let out a contented sigh. "Nothing. Although your sister is right. We really should start thinking about where to go from here." he said. He got up and stood in front of the two of them. "So tell me. What's your plan?"

"Okay" Tosca replied.
Una opened her mouth to order an idea, but Tosca beat her to it.
"We need to look for a territory... so what do we need to look for? A river and a place with good hunting grounds. So if we follow a river, it could probably lead us to good territory, right?"

Twilight thought for a moment and then nodded. "Smart idea." he said. "Yes, you're right. The home den for any wolf pack's territory is almost always near some water source."

"So are we gonna go then?" asked Yuma as he and Kai walked up to the group, standing next to Rowtag. He was rubbing his should where his younger sister had playfully nipped him a little too hard, but other than that he was fine.

Tosca nodded and rose to her feet. Una uneasily rose to her feet as well, but she decided to let Tosca have a moment to lead. She was too tired to put up with Tosca.
Tosca started off, sniffing the air for any smell of a river.
"Anyone smell any water?" Tosca asked, looking between the wolves.
Kai and Una lifted their heads and searched the air for a hint of moisture.

Twilight's sense of smell was very good, fortunately for them. It was only faint on the wind, but he could smell water. "I can smell it." he said. "This way." He began walking out of the grove and headed in a North-Eastern direction, following the scent of water.

Tosca followed confidently, leading her siblings close behind her and following the oldest wolf. They walked further and further away from the stand of pine trees and ventured into a flatter landscape. Mountains still hung in the distance, but they were miles away and much bigger then the siblings had seen before.

The black wolf continued to lead them on. The scent of water was growing steadily stronger by the minute and it became easier to know where exactly came from. And then they made it at last. A moderately large river stood in front of them. The more shallow parts near the shores of the river were icy, but the middle flowed water strongly. "We have arrived." Twilight said.

Tosca smiled at Twilight's discovery.
"Good"
Kai surveyed the water while Una remained unusually quiet.
"I don't think anyone has this territory either" Tosca exclaimed excitedly, sniffing the air and scanning their area. The tawny wolf trotted back and forth, sniffing for any scent at all of any wolf pack. When she got to the thinnest part of the river, a faint smell of another pack drifted across, but not another trace of the scent was on the siblings' side of the river.
"I think this is our new home!" Tosca proclaimed. "But I think someone else is on the other side of the river"

The black wolf sat down and nodded. "I know. I can smell them." he said. "But they hold no influence on this side of the river, so you are quite correct. This is an unoccupied territory that is yours for the taking. And how convenient it is that finding will not be as difficult as we thought." Twilight pointed out a tall hill that was a rocky drop-off on one side, and at its base there was a cave entrance."

Tosca grinned.
"Wow, that was lucky"
Tosca glanced over across the river once more but ignored the scent. She was sure they wouldn't try to cross the river.
"So do we do something to claim it?" Kai asked excitedly. "Like howling like mom and dad used to do?"
Not waiting for an answer, Kai threw her head back and howled. Tosca laughed and joined in, sending her own howl into the air.

Yuma, caught up in the excitement, joined in with a howl of his own, soon followed by Rowtag. They had a new home at last! Twilight, for his part, stood away from the others and did no join in. He had only ever howled a few times, and that was a life or death situation. He refrained from doing it again. He just watched the younger wolves celebrate their success.

Una didn't join in either. She hung back as well, pretending to be tired, but she really felt a surge of jealousy. She should've been the one to find the new territory. She should have led the pack there. She should have started the howl.
"I'm going to go to sleep" Una mumbled, heading back toward the new cave. "I... my head hurts"
Kai wagged her tail and nuzzled her older sister goodnight. "G'night Una!"
Tosca watched suspiciously but she was too happy to pretend to be an emotionless leader.
"Uh... feel better I guess" the tawny wolf said half-heartedly. They had a territory now!