Autumn Air (Tagged)

[Meds]

Kanga, Manaaki;

Manaaki's words seemed to strike a chord with Arani. He was always doing that. Saying clever things, being thoughtful, making others think about what he said... Kanga had found that more often than not wolves tried to forget what he said. But such was the life of having a know-it-all older brother, he supposed.
Manaaki almost seemed to sense his thoughts, because the grey twin turned and fixed his russet double with a calculating and knowing look. Kanga chewed his lip and gave a wicked smirk, but didn't comment further. Let Manaaki think what he thought.

Arani surprised Kanga when she actually looked up with him. For a half-minute, he actually thought the brother was hiding up in the trees. He was too smart to look though; however, he was not too smart not to be fooled when Arani said that he was barking up the wrong tree. Kanga's head snapped around to the tree in question, his body reacting too quickly for his mind to catch up and realize it was probably in jest. What sort of self-respecting wolves hung out in trees, anyway? Come to think of it—what tree could even hold wolves the size of the twins?

"You'll notice that while Kanga may be quick," Manaaki spoke smoothly, not turning his head towards the tree but rather fixing Arani with his piercing stare. "He is none too bright."
Kanga shook his head conversationally, as if saying 'no, no, actually that's incorrect.' to Manaaki's statement.
"I take offense to that, actually." He said, now fixing Arani with his own stare, telling her as much as Manaaki, but refusing to look at him. The quieter brother smiled.

[Emorli]

((Aww XD Poor Kanga...))

Arani;

A puff of air is pushed passed Arani's teeth as she lets out a small laugh, creating a quiet hissing noise while Kanga tried to search other trees for Baal. She could see the gears trying to turn in his head as the look on his face showed that he forgot about Arani's brother potentially being in a tree, and started on some other random thought. This was the first time she's met a wolf that's as much of an air-head as this one, and it was hilariously adorable to her at the moment, but in the future, it could become ones undoing.

Manaaki turned and began to speak to the female, saying that his brother isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, which was quite obvious from the first few seconds of their first meeting, and Arani gives a small nod just before the russet male turns back to the conversation, facing away from the trees, and begins to protest his quiet sibling's words.

"It's okay. You have a cute personality," Arani pauses to whisper with her front lower leg raised to her muzzle like she's trying to keep her words from Manaaki, "Just between us though, you're my favorite of the two of you." Arani brings her paw back down, and gives a small laugh, looking back at Manaaki, who had obviously heard her words, and she scrunches her nose slightly with a smile, almost saying, "Let's see if his head really can't get much bigger." But, to be fair, Arani wasn't fully lying to the naive wolf. The russet male's hilarious personality did make him her favorite of the two to interact with, but the quiet and mature brother would make for a nice, serious conversation, which is something that Arani would never say no to.

[Meds]

((His head's so thick I doubt he even noticed x) ))

Manaaki, Kanga;

Manaaki boring-ed it up successfully as usual, but Arani seemed like a wolf that could handle the two of them pretty well. Such things were hard to do, and not often found amongst the general public. Sure there were some wolves, like Amora. Kanga glanced at his brother shrewdly as thoughts turned to his assumed love-interests.
But whatever Kanga was thinking quickly drained out of his head, along with any other intelligent things, when Arani said that he was cute and also her favourite.
Manaaki's eyes closed in an expression resembling pain in the split-second before Kanga turned his head wildly fast to stare wide-eyed at his brother.

"HA!" He stood up, all the great weight of him, and feigned a lunge at Manaaki—who didn't even move. Kanga spun on his heels and trotted up to Arani, circling her once and allowing the near-constant grin to fall back into place. "Hear that Manaaki? I'm the favourite—and she thinks I'm cute to boot." He moved in front of her, his large chest widening still more, and winked at her devilishly.
"Down," Manaaki said, lifting a paw and bringing it back to the ground fluidly. Kanga snorted and ignored him, but did take a step or two back from Arani. Manaaki sighed, and shook his head gently. Some things would never change, it would seem. "He really is an intelligent beast. He can even be quite responsible at times." He was a ranked Warrior in Secluded Sunrise, after all. Kanga turned to Arani after Manaaki's words and shook his head softly, closing his eyes casually.

[Emorli]

Arani;

The female simply sat and watched the situation unfold as the mischievous of the two pranced around, his large figure contrasting his pup-like actions. He danced around with an energy and spunk that Arani wishes for. How nice would it be to be as happy-go-lucky and carefree as this male, although she's sure that he has his not so prance-y moments, his attitude is like taking a drink from a stream running off of the mountain in the spring, the chilled water combating the warm sun.

The female simply can't take it anymore, she bends down, her front legs stretched out in front of her playfully, making the actual length of her legs visible. Her eyes water as she laughs at the huge wolf dancing around her, a ruffled tail swaying playfully behind her, until she stands back up fully, wiping her watery eyes by bending her neck to meet a raised front leg.

"I can't believe you've made me laugh this much." The female's surprise is genuine. There isn't a memory that rests even in the bottom of her memory that she remembers laughing as hard as she did.

The female is ripped away from her searching for a memory where she's as entertained as she it right now, at the duller of the pair's words. Disregarding all of the words that were said from the earlier teasing, the equally large male explains that his seemingly dull-witted brother is actually quite intelligent, and even goes as far to call him responsible, at which, Arani gives a nod and her own insight on his words,

"It's reasonable to be intelligent and responsible in certain things and situations while maybe being a bit... slower at others." The female for the first time in what seems like forever, doesn't have a smile on her face, but rather a look of understanding, which she goes further to explain that expression.

"I'm like that too. I look like an idiot around some wolves." The female raises and eyebrow toward the grey coated brother, motioning to him. He seems very clever and observant. Much more so than Arani believes she'll ever be.

With a small upturn of her lips, she turns to look at Kanga, who had just recently moved from being in her face, although she did little about it, and then back to Manaaki. What could Kanga be intellectual at and responsible at? Just because of how different it sounds from what she's seen, it sends her curiosity into action.

"I'd like to hear more about this intellect and responsibility. Where would he have such a sudden personality change?" Arani gives a small tilt of her head with genuine curiosity forming on her features. Her eyes grow a bit bigger and her eyebrows raise slightly, with her jaw hanging looser, but not so much that her lips part.


(Haha! I just read over this and I kinda feel bad for calling Kanga "dull-witted")

[Meds]

((He's not, and also he is, so THAT'S just fine xD ))

Kanga, Manaaki;

To Manaaki's surprise, Arani bends into a pup-like position and readies herself for any forthcoming Kanga-isms. He feels a rare smile colour his features, the silver flashing out from under his grey as he does so. The stupid russet oaf was still bleeding from the boys' tussle on the way in, but he didn't seem to notice or care. That was quite typical of both of the boys, in fact. Pain wasn't really an issue for them. Of course, intense pain was. Losing a leg or eye or something—but scratches? Cuts and bruises? They were so rough with each other, and indeed on the world around them, that such little things were non-issues.

"You watch that," Kanga said, nodding mischievously to her playful stance. "I may just take that offer." Of course he wouldn't. She was all but a stranger and Kanga played rough. But he grinned as he spoke the would-be threat.
When Arani mentioned being slow in other things, Kanga opened his mouth to hurl some half-serious jibe back at her, but with a look from Manaaki kept silent. Arani's aura had shifted, and she seemed to be remembering something rather than just making conversation. She added that she believed she looked quite silly around others, which neither twin knew how to comment on.

Fortunately they didn't have to, as she opened the conversation up again soon after. Kanga smiled coolly in response, to which Manaaki rolled his eyes slightly in good humor.
"I'm always intelligent and responsible," Kanga said. "I just often chose not to be."
"Yes he leaves that all for me," Manaaki rumbled beside him with an equally deep bass. "It's great, really." The sarcasm was thick."However," Manaaki added thoughtfully. Kanga sensed his brother's mood change from playful to serious, and he was barely able to hold back a moan. "Kanga often shows up in times of duty, such as trespassers in our pack, or times of danger. He is a Warrior, you know. But he is also thoughtful and kind as well." The brown rings around Manaaki's eyes mirrored his brothers' fur.
"And loyal," Kanga added. "And handsome and strong." He gave a smug grin toward Arani, though he did appreciate Manaaki's kind words.

[Emorli]

((Oof. I keep struggling to keep these under 500 words. I don't want to ramble on but, I can't help myself sometimes, as you can see in this post XD))

Arani;

The female raises her eyebrow at the russet twin in a playful, "Are you serious?" face, the second one that's appeared in this conversation as she catches the twitch of Kanga's mouth at him almost slipping out something to take a jab at Arani. She tries to put on an annoyed face, but her smile breaks through, not allowing her to be upset at the male's pup-like attitude, trying to take every chance he has to poke fun at someone. Instead, she chooses to answer he male's semi-threat, almost missing the small smile that appears on Manaaki's face. The female sends another, calmer and respectful smile to the more mature male, before remembering her comment on Kanga's playful threat.

"I wouldn't mind. As long as you find some way not to crush me completely." The female sticks her tongue out at the energetic wolf. Then, goes back to listening to the two bicker back and forth, amused. She nods silently at the points given by Manaaki, serious words rather than playful jabs at each other, which Kanga just turns the serious conversation back to a playful one earning an eye roll from the smaller of the three.

She looks at Kanga who's got a smug grin, which Arani rolls her eyes at and replies with a sarcastic tone,

"Yes. Definitely. The most." Her little eyebrow raise can't seem to go away as she makes small little sarcastic remarks to the male. And although she's just messing with him about what he said, he does seem very loyal, so some of her sarcastic-ness is maybe not as sarcastic as it was meant to be, and she realizes this so, why not just outright say it?

"All jokes aside, you both seem very loyal and respectable. And you both have been kind to me so, I won't deny him being kind either. You guys are fairly entertaining I must say!" They seem very loyal to their pack, which, to Arani, means they're loyal to every single soul in the pack. At least from what Manaaki told her, Kanga protects the pack from outsiders who could potentially be very dangerous, and she just assumes that Manaaki has a role within the pack that's important as well. They also gained some kindness points because they didn't find her in the field and decide to tear her to shreds. By the sheer size and obvious strength of the two, it wouldn't have been a difficult task.

[Meds]

Kanga, Manaaki;

Kanga tossed his head in the wild fashion that he was accustomed to, and spoke in a mockingly holier-than-thou voice.
"Well if I can't crush you it's no fun."
And he got up and fairly flounced all of his weight and muscles over to Manaaki's side, as if tired of that avenue of conversation; however, his eyes were sparked and nearly burning with mischief. Manaaki pretended not to notice. When Arani jokingly agreed with everything that Kanga had said though, Manaaki's eyes fluttered closed for a minute.
Kanga was the worst. It was like he gained power from others finding him funny, and when others insisted on finding him funny, he never. Stopped.
Of course, that was what made him Kanga, and Manaaki wouldn't change him for the world (well, sometimes...). So sometimes all he could do was sit back and laugh, and wait until he had to be rescued. Arani seemed alright, though. She didn't seem like the kind of wolf to get offended by something Idiot-Boy said, call in six of her friends, and threaten both their lives. No, Manaaki figured everything was pretty safe for now.

"Thank you," Kanga said when Arani assessed them. He smiled as well, and for once it looked genuine rather than like he was laughing at a joke he had set up that nobody had discovered yet "You as well," He added, his deep voice thundering. "We'd like to meet that brother of yours one day."

Manaaki had gotten the sense that there was some slight bit of tension there between them, but he was in no position to ask. He had expressed as much to Kanga with a single glance, and Kanga, being the less-tactful of the two, was now curious.

[Emorli]

Arani;

"Well if I can't crush you it's no fun."

The slightly shorter female scoffs jokingly, tossing her head to the side and answering with a tone that was smug and accompanied by a raise of her eyebrow and the curl of the corner of her lips that make a smirk to combat Kanga's mocking tone,

"Well, it'd end up being fun for you, but less for me. If you ever happen to crush me, please tell everyone that I died in the most amazing, and spectacular way. Although I suppose saying that I died in a freak accident where a bear was playing with me, that'd be pretty weird." Honestly, her words were serious. She hadn't figured out how she's want to go, but it better be the coolest and most insane death that anyone has ever heard of and everyone better know that it was crazy. When she goes she wants to be remembered, not just one of those wolves that fall into the background and are forgotten once they leave the general area.

Manaaki looked like he was thinking which turned the dark-pelted female's attention to him. What goes on in his mind when he's so silent.

The female looks closely at the male's grey eyes, ringed with a color similar to his russet twin, and that's when her thoughts were startled by the mostly silent of the three, almost missing the shimer of light silvers as the sun hits the male's coat. His face is adorned with a smile that's real. It wasn't like his usual, "laughing at his brother smile." Instead, it was more of a, "You're actually okay," smile, to which the female gives a small smile, the tone mirroring Manaaki's and a small nod. Answering both his thank you and his genuine smile. Then, the mention of meeting her brother comes up and Arani gives a small sigh,

"Well, if I ever find him. I'll let him know about you. I'm sure the two of you would get along. He'll probably like Kanga too. Probably find him amusing." Arani gives a small laugh with a shake of her head, realizing how similar Manaaki and her brother are, although maybe not in how he deals with his sibling (Arani is only mildly offended)they both seem to be fairly close in terms of silence. It would be fun to get Baal to meet these two, although it slightly saddens her that she'd have to share what she'd call her friends with Baal. He usually ends up closer to them than she was in the first place.

With a loud half groan half sigh, the female just lets her body weight drop to the side, with a loud thud. She'd obviously find him eventually especially if he has his own territory claimed since it would be difficult to not learn about a new pack rising in the valley. The female snickers at the idea of the pack, how she'd probably trespass in the territory, unannounced and look for her brother.

The female rolls onto her stomach with her legs outstretched in front of her, looking up at the pair. Her nose twitching slightly,

"What's being in a pack like?" She's never been around more than 3 other wolves at a time. Being in a pack that's considered very small is something completely foreign to her, and she's curious about what such a life is like.

[Meds]

Kanga, Manaaki;

Manaaki grinned when Arani asked to please be remembered in some fantastic way. Kanga shot him a shrewd look, as if already having guessed what he was about to say.
"Leave out the bear. I'd say freak accident is perfect if Kanga accidentally crushed you." The silver twin was not beyond fun. He was not beyond razzing his brother; in fact, it was one of his most enjoyed past times. Kanga showed him his teeth, but the older brother simply continued to smile.
"At least I could pass as a bear and not—" Uh oh. Where was he going with this? Quick, he needed to think of a comeback. "—an angry cloud."
Brutal.

"So anyway," Kanga continued, swinging his great head back to Arani as if the previous had not just happened. "Great. Well-met. We look forward to meeting him. You can tell him about us, if you do ever see him. We're hard to miss." He winked cheekily just as Arani flopped over to the side. Kanga immediately mimicked her from his position in the grasses, his bulk slamming downward with an echoing thud without so much as a second thought.
Manaaki surveyed him as if he wasn't quite sure why he had been stuck with somebody as... special as Kanga.

"Being in a pack suits us, believe it or not," Manaaki spoke up, his eyes on his brother. "Most think we would prefer to be Loners—and for a while we were, right Kanga? A two-brother wolf pack."
"Wolf pack," Kanga repeated, his head on the ground precariously close to a rock.
"But it's enjoyable. I think we both get a sense of purpose from it. Our first winter we brought down a mature cow moose—it fed the hungry pups for days. We bring down moose on the regular, but sharing it for once felt pretty good."

[Emorli]

Arani;

Arani sits quietly, enjoying the brother's jabs at each other, nodding to agree with Manaaki on his statement about not needing a bear to have a freak accident and instead an accident where Kanga accidentally crushes her would be freak enough. An accident like that would probably be a terrible way to go, but at least it's something that she would be remembered by. When is the last time someone's seen a wolf that could pass off as a brown bear any day? Saying that a wolf had been crushed by one definitely doesn't happen every day.

A small turn of her head shows her the look on Kanga's face. He obviously doesn't agree with his brother as much as the sleek coated female does and he tries throwing an insult back to his second half only to be stopped awkwardly in the middle of his sentence by his lack of ideas for an insult, which just results in a small awkward silence before he thinks of something, anything to call the grey male.

"—an angry cloud." Arani drops her head comically in disappointment,

"Oh, dear Kanga. I can't say that I'm impressed by that one." The female pushes her lips together, forming a squished like as she shakes her head in disappointment. And then as quick as that, Kanga tries changing the subject back toward her brother with a wink that goes ignored, in an obvious way, by the female. He falls down to the ground, copying her own actions, but creating a much louder thud than her,

"Good lord. If there were any deer that would've come to trample me, they're gone now."

Arani's joking attitude changes as soon as the two speak about their pack life. The lanky female grows silent and she listens intently, her elegant features seem to sharpen slightly as the absence of her playful friendly smile. As soon as Kanga starts speaking, her smile returns. To Arani, it just sounds like he's bragging about being able to take down a moose.

"Uh huh. Okay. No need to try to impress me, I already get that you're a big, strong wolf." The female rolls her eyes at her last few words and then she spots the rock resting almost too close to the male's head for him to have no hit it. Motioning toward the rock, she asks,

"Did you hit your head on that rock right there." She laughs a bit with her words, but she's genuinely wanting to know if he ended up hurting himself by trying to copy her. Allowing her bit of worry to show, she warns Kanga with a more serious tone,

"Even if you didn't, though. Be careful." Dieing from hitting your head on a rock because you flopped over for no reason would be a really crappy way to die especially if you're as huge as Kanga. That's one way that Arani wouldn't want to die from. How is that memorable?!

[Meds]

((Haha, not Asena silly!))

Kanga, Manaaki;

From the ground, Kanga gave off a very loud huff when Arani said she was disappointed in his comeback. He glanced to Manaaki, a quick sideways look, and was annoyed to see a smug little grin at the corners of his mouth. Well what did they want? He couldn't be perfect all the time.
Manaaki watched his brother closely as he looked from wolf to wolf, fully aware that he had no control over the situation. Sometimes, with Kanga, one just had to sit back and enjoy the show... Of course, this was playing into what exactly the great russet pup wanted, but sometimes it couldn't be helped.

Kanga'a comical scowl turned into a smirk, however, when Arani alluded to how large a sound he had made when thumping to the ground. His teeth poked past his lips and caught the sun as he grinned. Manaaki matched his expression with a flash of his own teeth. It wasn't a serious or threatening gesture—just one that would remind Kanga that he was there and paying attention.
But Kanga was pretty pleased none the less. Anything that stroked that ego of his. Realistically he was huge, as she had said. But the depth of his ridiculousness sometimes had no match. That being said, when Arani mockingly brought up that he was a big strong wolf, the smirk only widened.

"You really mustn't encourage him," Manaaki said before Kanga could reply, holding off an eye-roll. "He'll never shut up if you do. Trust me. I encouraged him once when we were pups. His mouth hasn't closed since." When he had a mind to use it, Manaaki had quite the biting sense of humor. Subtle, like the rest of him—but sharp.

Kanga snorted at his brother in response, then righted himself to a normal laying position rather than on his back, his powerful legs swooping through the air until they settled underneath him once more.
Their company turned slightly more serious however, when she asked Kanga if he hit his head on the rock. He glanced toward the protruding stone, admittedly rather close to his cranium. He gave one large shake of his big head, the muscles below the fur in his neck pulling fluidly.
"Might not have even noticed if I had," His eyes darkened and a devilish smirk coloured his face. "It's lucky for you that I didn't, though. You would have been so bored with just Manaaki to talk to, and not his charming younger twin." His tail flashed red as it rolled across the ground. Manaaki gave a little, barely audible, sigh.
Ah, Kanga. Always the flirt, never the commitment-maker.

[Emorli]

((ARANI NOT ASENA;)) ((I can't believe I did that xD! I think I was writing for Asena and then right in the middle came to write for Arani haha!))

Arani;

The smug look that Kanga's face naturally has, only grows more obvious, earning an over-the-top eye roll from the dark coated female while the more reserved of the brothers warns her.

"Yep. I should really stop. He might not be able to fit in between trees because of the how big his head is." The female lets a that she's been holding in escape her lungs loudly before speaking sarcastically, not so subtly referring to her brother, "I can't imagine what it's like to be with someone like that."

He's not like that to anyone else other than Arani. He knows how to get under her skin. Even he has his own immature moments, and it just happens to always make the slightly shorter female a victim to his pestering. 9 times out of 10, it results in the female getting annoyed and completely losing it. It's even worse because she knows that's why he does it.

It's nice to actually meet siblings that pester each other as well, giving the female a bit of reassurance that it's just siblings in general, rather than her being the only one that faces a brother's unforgiving torment.

Kanga pulls the female from her thoughts when he shakes his head as an answer to her previous question. She opens her mouth to add some snarky remark, but the male's words halted any sound that Arani was about to make.

A smirk covers the male's face followed by a quick compliment to himself and an attempt at flirting. He's rewarded with Arani raising her eyebrow and a sarcastic comment,

"Well, I'm sure I'd live without this 'charm' you speak of." The female shakes her head before turning back to the sighing male, speaking with a jokingly apologetic tone and a small frown,

"I see what you have to deal with, now." Arani nods slightly to Manaaki in understanding, and as quick as the apologetic look appeared, it vanishes without a trace and is replaces with bright eyes hinting at curiosity. Her whole presence lights up slightly with her question,

"How'd you guys come across me anyways?" Arani looks toward Manaaki expectantly, already anticipating some weird, joke of an answer from the russet twin.

[Meds]

Kanga;

Manaaki smirked, a rare expression for him, when Arani poked fun at Kanga’s big head. It was extra funny, because other wolves had made fun of it before, too. The older twin was rewarded with a shocked, and then quickly dark, look from his red brother.
”You can’t argue the facts, Kanga.” Manaaki winked kindly at Arani over Kanga’s grounded head. Kanga snorted.
”Can and will.” His voice was a muttering of defeat.

When Kanga tried his hand at toying with her, however, Arani quickly proved that she was a capabale being, and snapped something back at him. She engaged Manaaki, and he nodded in understanding. Kanga huffed and was about to threaten his brother in some new and creative way, when Arani asked how they had come across her.

”We were running,” Kanga said, a touch of confusion colouring his voice as if this was the simplest explanation in the world.
”We cover a lot of ground—quickly,” Manaaki added, his expression once more calm and content. Kanga often forgot how impressive (and if not impressive, rare) it was that such large beasts as them could also move as quickly. Most larger bodies were meant for slower things. Fighting and so on. Not them, though. They had been blessed with the ability to do both. Manaaki was a Scout, after all.

[Emorli]

Arani;

Manaaki sends a friendly wink to the female, making a comment about how Arani's words were all too true and about how Kanga couldn't argue with the truth. Of course, Kanga makes a signature move, finding some way to respond to his brother's jabs like he's arguing back with him. A typical thing for siblings to do, but Manaaki and Kanga seem extra bad about it.

In response to both his brother's and Arani's playful jabs, Kanga huffs like he's about to try arguing back with the male until he's stopped by her words. She, in return to Kanga's huff, sends a wink toward said male, mirroring the look of his own winks, just to add to her little comments sent toward him.

And just as expected, Kanga answers with some baseline information, that was already fairly obvious, that they were running, earning him a tilt of her head and a raised eyebrow with a look saying, "Seriously," written across her face, ending her stare with a shake of her head, turning toward the grey twin at the sound of his voice. Her mouth forms an 'o' shape with her reply,

"Oooh. Huh. Did I interrupt what you were planning on doing?" She gets a slight ping of guilt stab her in the stomach. Had she been keeping them busy this whole time? Were they only staying because she was talking to them? Are they just being nice?

"If you have something else to do, don't let me keep you because I talk too much. I won't get upset if you tell me you have to leave. Something about her persona changes with her words. The atmosphere that floats around her morphs with how she carries herself. Her presence is a bit more mature, something that's like her brother's, but isn't close enough to rival his own maturity and presence. Not by a million years. She's much more of a fun and exciting one, and he's always been calm and calculating. Because of that, she's always trusted his judgment, no matter how much she says they don't get along. She's never doubted any of his serious decisions.

[Meds]

Kanga, Manaaki;

When she winked at him, Kanga responded with a devilish smirk. Manaaki saw it out of the corner of his eye, but didn't comment on it. Kanga was like that. He would act as ridiculous as possible—immature, noncommittal, sensitive—but as soon as he saw that a female (or anybody, really) was eating it up, he could change in an instant. So it was in this scenario. As soon as Arani winked at him, suddenly his broad chest broadened still more, and the roguish tilt of his grin hitched just a little bit higher. All at once, he was a whole new wolf—suddenly charming, dangerous, mature, handsome.
Manaaki fought not to roll his eyes. He doubted that his twin even noticed that he did such a thing. But it did make Manaaki wonder—if he could 'turn it on' so easily and without a real conscious decision to do so—surely he could act a little more civil in regular conversation?
Heck, if he played up the dark and mysterious yet charming and slightly mischievous rouge all the time, Manaaki would never see him again! He would be off with who knows who, doing all manner of things. Manaaki blinked and gave his head a slight shake. Better not to comment on it then, and let the beast continue harmlessly charming those around him.

Kanga's smirk widened when Arani fixed him with a disgruntled look of her own. Well they had been running.
"No interruption," Kanga said, his deep voice smooth and chuckle-free for the first time. "We never really have a plan."
Manaaki nodded along wit his brothers' words. It was true.
"We don't have to leave," Manaaki spoke through a small smile. "Trust me, your company is far-preferred to being alone with this big brute."