A/N: Canon name = nickname:
Velouria = Vella. Keaton = Keaty. Hinoka = Hina.
It has been a few days since Corrin's sudden addiction to raiding towns and villages, and the feeling has yet to get any less intense. Right now, she's camping near a forest, without the campfire of course. According to the guards she's a 'criminal', in other words, she's willing to do what she can to survive. If they can't keep their goods secure, then that's their fault. If they can't fend her off, it's their fault.
She's also become somewhat decent in her traps, but she has since forgone simple snares and ropes for more lethal ones. A few residual metal spikes here and there, some 'bear' traps there, and only a few ropes, but only because it was left over and she had enough to make one. How did those poachers have such an easy time with them?
"A-Ah!" Corrin once squeaked as she narrowly avoided being pierced by a bolt-loaded tripwire trap. It was her first week of scouting, well more of disarming traps. There were plenty who could easily scout out the areas, but Corrin had proved to be quick to learn, so why not have her break the traps apart? "The pack needs me. I need to help the pack." She breathes as she slips by a different tripwire, before slowly releasing the tension in the wire, as to keep it from firing off. She sighs as another one is disarmed, another potential family life saved. She smiles as she creeps along back to the dens…
That is when she heard one of the pack howl. She immediately bursted into a sprint, before tripping on a stray branch. "Grr…" She groaned as she tried to… wait, that's not a branch! "Rope? How did I miss that?!" Immediately, the rope noose tightened around her ankle and she was sent up to dangle. "K-Keaty! V-Vella!" She exclaimed, more out of reflex than any rational thought. What… what if a poacher is near? "Br-breathe, think." She pulled herself up, gasping as her muscles started to strain. She wasn't as strong as the others, but she was getting there.
Slowly, she managed to grab a hold of the rope, nearly having to fold herself in half to do it. A little further and the knot was within sight, she deftly began undoing the cursed knot. Bit by bit, it slowly came undone… before she dropped right to the forest floor, forgetting to hold on to it after it came undone. "Ow…" She took a moment to compose herself before she resumed her jog to the dens.
"Oh dearrr. Not again."
...That voice. Corrin leaves the spot where she would sleep and walks towards the literally only non-lethal trap around her. "A Lady Setsuna?" Corrin asks as the Archer comes into view… eerily similar to their first meeting. A Lady Setsuna is dangling from her ankle.
"Wheeee…" As a gentle breeze starts spinning her around, "Oh, hello Corrin." She drawls out. "Fancy meeting you here."
"What are you doing?" Corrin narrows her eyes.
"Why do you call me 'A Lady' Setsuna? Isn't that a mouthful?" Once more, she skirts around one of her questions.
"You called Hinoka, Lady Hinoka… you're a woman, then you're A Lady Setsuna."
"Oh… I geeet it. So, hello, A Lady Corrin."
"Yes, hello. What are you doing here?" Corrin was half-tempted to leave this area.
"I liked our chat last time, can we do that again?" Another breeze spins her in place.
"Alright…" Something about this is rubbing Corrin the wrong way. So, against her better judgement, she lets the Archer down and guides her back to the spot where Corrin will sleep. "What did you want to talk about?"
"A Lady Hinoka told me to try and look for some thief, all I know is that it's a woman…" Setsuna pauses, "No, wait, I think she said something about her having… I forgot." Setsuna stares blankly ahead, truly lost.
A cold sweat runs down Corrin's neck. She knew something was off but to send A Lady Setsuna away now would be suspicious. "Strange." She tries to keep her voice calm.
"Do you like camping?" She suddenly asks, "I like camping."
Corrin looks at her strangely, "I do." She lies. Corrin would rather spend her time in a cave.
"Hey, are you looking for something? I could ask A Lady Hinoka. She's a princess, you know."
...Princess? What's a princess? Then it hits her, not the princess thing… but the reason she came here in the first place. "A sword trainer."
"Cooool." A Lady Setsuna has already seemed to lost interest. "We got a lot of those in Shirasagi."
"Okay…" Corrin starts.
"Yeah, a lot of good ones." She looks off in the distance, "I guess, anyway. The last time I used a sword I ended up cutting a rope, which dropped a sack of flour on me."
"How much does it cost? For training?"
"I dunno." Corrin gave A Lady Setsuna a blank stare, "I always used a bow. We could go and ask."
"Perhaps you should go." Corrin flatly states.
"...I don't remember which way is out." She drawls out, "That rope swing disoriented me."
"Pick a direction and leave."
"Good idea." She gets up and starts walking… then Corrin hears a snap as one of her traps go off. "This one has spikes on it." A Lady Setsuna calls out, completely unharmed. Corrin sighs and lies down, readying herself for sleep.
"Sister?" Corrin groaned as she resisted the urge to wake up. "I loathe the mornings where you refuse to get up." The voice sighs as she suddenly feels her side being prodded.
"A-Alright, I'm up!" Corrin started giggling, bolting up and smiling as she faced Vella, who has a blank look on her face.
"...You do that just so I start touching you." Despite her aggravation, Vella is now smiling, too.
"Or Keaty." The brother in question groaned about his nickname, but otherwise stays leaning on the wall. "What are we doing today?" Corrin eagerly asked.
"Play?" Vella's eyes shined.
"As long as you two don't burn yourselves out." Keaty says, more like a stern father than a brother.
"You know you wanna play too, Keaty." Corrin giggles as she practically skips over to him, "I mean, you are making quite the breeze with your tail right now!"
"Hey… Hey!" Keaty pulls back as Corrin started stroking his tail, "No touching!" He exclaims as his tail continues to act more like a fan.
"Vella?" Corrin raises an eyebrow.
"Sister." The two share a look and Keaty gulps.
"Oh, Keaty…" The two say in unison and within a moment, they both dash towards their brother, who decides to take off, as well.
"This one again? Come on!" Keaty sighs as his two sisters chase him around the Wolfskin dens. "Why don't you two play with each other?"
Vella and Corrin share another look, before both fully smiling, "Because your reactions are the best! Look at that tail go, Keaty!" Corrin laughs out loud.
Corrin woke up, not because her body was rested and she felt like waking up. No, she heard a rustling and within a moment's notice, was ready to fight. Similar situations happened back in the pack, where one of the Wolfskin would let out a howl to alert the others. With that reminder, she couldn't forget one specific night, where a poacher rushed in and killed one of the pack, right in her line of sight. Corrin had to hold back a sob…
Yet, now that she has seen the average human's life, it only serves to anger her. Damn humans...
"Setsuna?" A different feminine voice spoke. "Gods, there you are."
"Helloooo, A Lady Hinoka." Setsuna slowly replies. "Check it out, this one has spikes."
"One moment." Corrin could hear A Lady Hinoka heave a huge sigh, "What are you doing out here, anyway?"
"I was following this cute little squirrel, then I saw something shiny." Corrin poked her head around the tree, seeing a fiery red-head carefully trying to maneuver her way around Corrin's trap. "There was this lady earlier who helped me out of the first one."
"Hold still, Setsuna!" A Lady Hinoka scolds the Archer. "You are incredibly lucky that you weren't skewered."
"She's kinda pretty." Setsuna continues, "I think you would like her, she's got a lot of muscle, too."
"Yes, that's nice. Now, would you please stop swinging around?"
"Her hair's kinda white, too. Or was it a light pink?" Setsuna pauses, talking that is as she's still swaying back and forth, "Her eyes were definitely as red as your hair."
At this point, A Lady Hinoka stops mid-tug, "Pointed ears?" Corrin reflexively touched her eartips… how does A Lady Hinoka know that?
"I dunno, her hair has always covered them. She told me her name last time we met, but I can't remember it."
"You met her before!? Why didn't you tell me?!"
"...I forgot."
"Gods, Setsuna." A Lady Hinoka had managed to successfully free Setsuna and prevent her from being skewered by the spikes. And it was at that point that Corrin heard a neigh right behind her. "Skychaser? What's the matter, girl?" Corrin had startled enough to cause her to jump, how did she not smell that beast coming? "H-Hey!" Corrin turns to see that A Lady Hinoka staring right at her, disbelief in her eyes. Taking her stunned moment into account, Corrin dashed off in the other direction. "W-Wait! What's your name?"
Corrin refused to answer, instead opting to grab her pack near her sleeping spot, then running out of the forest, skillfully avoiding all of her own traps. Within that same minute, she had already fled the entire forest, her legs taking her faster than any other human could hope to mimic. However, there was one thing she didn't take into account, at least not until she saw the shadow looming over her.
That A Lady Hinoka actually could ride that Pegasus. "Please, hold on a moment." Hinoka attempted as she lowered the flying beast enough to fly alongside Corrin's high ground speed. Corrin shoots a glare at the woman, before sharply turning on her heel and running to the right. "Is your name Corrin? Ma'am?"
...How does she know? That one thought caused Corrin to lose focus just long enough to hit a rock, causing her to skid along the ground. She's definitely experienced worse pain when landing, but it's more embarrassing to have made such a mistake when she's had so much practice with her free-running. A Lady Hinoka lands near her, and she kneels next to Corrin. "Hey," A Lady Hinoka gently speaks as one of her hands brush Corrin's hair aside, revealing her pointed ears. "...Corrin?" She breathes.
Corrin tries to get up and dash off again, but of all things, A Lady Hinoka practically yanks her into a hug. There was nothing but relief on A Lady Hinoka's end. Not that Corrin knew why. "L-Let go!" She exclaims, trying and failing, to break free of the embrace. "...damn it, human. Let go!"
She stops the hug, but refuses to let go, "Corrin?" She gently asks, "You… don't remember me?" Hurt lines her eyes, "I'm your big sister, Hinoka."
...The alpha did say she was from Hoshido and that she was taken from some King, recklessly proclaiming on how he got her. This… human is her sister? "I don't know you." She finally says, "But I know I don't like you for that."
"...You were only a baby when you were taken from us." Tears are now forming in her 'sister's' eyes. "Our father was killed in a peace meeting between Nohr and Hoshido."
Which lines up with what the alpha told her. "Then… you're family?"
A Lady Hinoka smiles, "That's right, I'm your big sister." She proclaims with pride, she gestures towards herself and the Pegasus, "I trained so hard everyday so… um?" By this point Corrin had buried herself into A Lady Hinoka's embrace… but not to hug her.
Instead, she did what she would do with Keaty or Vella, and took a deep breath of the woman's scent. "You're spicy." She concludes.
"Sister?" Hinoka seems put off, now.
Oh right, humans don't sniff each other. Oh well. "Habits." She admits with a smile, earning only a confused look from A La… Hina. Corrin has decided to call her Hina. "Are there others, Hina?"
"...Hina?" Hina repeats.
Corrin quickly nods, then points a finger on Hina's… breast, "Hina. Do I have a brother, Hina?"
"Two of them. You also have a little sister." A pause, "Come on, I'll take you back home."
"Is A Lady Setsuna walking back, then?"
"Gods… that's right." Hina sighs. "Setsuna!"
"Which way, Hina?" Corrin asks as Setsuna, more or less, stumbles her way over there.
"We'll walk…"
"No! I want to run."
"That's a long distance to run, sister. I don't know how long we…"
Corrin scrunches her face, "No, you and A Lady Setsuna use your Pegasus. I will run." ...Humans.
"Corrin."
"Hina and A Lady Setsuna will use Hina's Pegasus." Corrin stubbornly states. "I will run."
She sighs, "Alright, sister." Hina gets back on her Pegasus, then proceeds to help Setsuna up, "Let's go."