Boreal crooned encouragingly as Sah went still, and the kisses finally stopped as she raised her head to give Lilly a congratulatory sniff. The wolf's plan had worked exactly as they'd hoped, and now it just remained for the humans to remember just who their packmates were. The occasional fight was all well and good, but at the end of the day they still had to rely on each other - however little the two headstrong males liked to admit it.
Freed of Lilly's weight, Tal was just pushing himself up into a sitting position in the mud, nose wrinkling in dismay as he tried to scrape it off his shirt. His name - the full and proper Talyson that so rarely boded well - drew his attention back to Sah and wariness flashed through his eyes momentarily. But the apology that followed had him blinking in surprise, even as Boreal rumbled her approval and pushed herself off of the hunter so she could amble over to snuffle Tal's muddy, slobbery hair.
The courier reached up to wipe mud off the back of his neck and cleared his throat uncomfortably. "Yeah, well... 'm sorry, too." Not for defending Safrin's gift, but for not calling off the training when he'd realized how genuinely upset Sah was so they could talk things out without the adrenaline of a fight pushing things too far.
With a heavy sigh he got to his feet and then stepped over to offer Sah a hand up as well. "C'mon. We need t'get you cleaned up. You're a mess."
Freed of Lilly's weight, Tal was just pushing himself up into a sitting position in the mud, nose wrinkling in dismay as he tried to scrape it off his shirt. His name - the full and proper Talyson that so rarely boded well - drew his attention back to Sah and wariness flashed through his eyes momentarily. But the apology that followed had him blinking in surprise, even as Boreal rumbled her approval and pushed herself off of the hunter so she could amble over to snuffle Tal's muddy, slobbery hair.
The courier reached up to wipe mud off the back of his neck and cleared his throat uncomfortably. "Yeah, well... 'm sorry, too." Not for defending Safrin's gift, but for not calling off the training when he'd realized how genuinely upset Sah was so they could talk things out without the adrenaline of a fight pushing things too far.
With a heavy sigh he got to his feet and then stepped over to offer Sah a hand up as well. "C'mon. We need t'get you cleaned up. You're a mess."
