After dining on two rabbits, a bird, and a squirrel Trella and Silver lay under the log with Trella playing with Silver's bracelets. Silver patiently let her. "You really like them don't you?"
"Uh-Huh." Trella did not even pause with making the bracelets clink.
"Why?"
"The chains around me when I was in the cage were very loud and always rattling. In my mind I would lessen the clang to a soft clink and be able to think of happier times when I played with you while Samar and your owner sat calling us in to eat. It kept me sane while I was the Pit; it was a hell-hole. I never want to have to fight again."
"Well if you like them so much then, here have these." Silver said as he took off two of his bracelets and placed them next to Trella. "But in exchange I want to learn how to fight."
"Didn't you hear me? I never want to fight again!"
"I said teach, not fight. I may know how to hunt well enough to feed us decently, but I don't know how to fight. If I learn how to fight I can protect you so you don't have to fight. Besides that skill will be useful until we can stay in one place. Some packs don't like others passing through their territory. Also your female and these wolves we meet might be looking for a mate. If I'm strong enough to take them on they won't question you for traveling with me."
"You sound like you have a lot of experience traveling and meeting with these wolves that don't like strangers."
Silver laughed "I do. I even went through a town that humans rejected other humans because they thought that strangers bring curses and diseases. It didn't matter if they saw me as a human or a wolf they still wanted to drive me out of town."
"Human or wolf?"
"Yeah each wolf has an illusion so we can blend in and humans normally won't bother us. Anyway you are getting off the subject, will you each me to fight?"
"If I teach you I will have to fight you to make sure you understand what I teach and I don't want to fight."
"You are teaching not fighting for your life. We would be doing a mock fight and could stop at anytime."
"We're just going to have to agree to disagree aren't we?"
"I guess, but you're getting off subject again."
"You're not going to stop hounding me about this are you?" Silver shook his head and Trella sighed, "Let me think about it for a few days okay?"
Silver grinned knowing he won. Trella seeing this kicked a rock at him saying "Go to sleep," and flopped on her side muttering something about males and not knowing when to give up.
Hours later nighttime
Trella woke alone in the den. Leaving it and entering the cool night air reviled Silver sitting staring at the moon. A twig snapped under her foot. Silver chuckled still looking towards the sky. "We're going to have to work on you walking silently. Come bask in the moonlight with me, you'll feel better."
Trella walked over "What's wrong? Are you trying to remember?"
"Yeah, it's frustrating not knowing what I did for the past year."
"At least that bullet only took your memory not your life." Trella murmured quietly toying with her necklace. "Look at the bright side of things. That is what you always did when we were younger."
"Did I?"
"Yeah, you were always cheerful, always smiling ready to play." Silver just huh-ed at that. Trella didn't like this depressed Silver. He was nothing like her puppy-hood friend. "You said something about human illusions what did you mean exactly?"
"I'll just show you instead it's easier than explaining." The brown wolf was now replaced with a young teenager with brown hair, large brown eyes, wearing a red button up shirt with sleeves rolled to his elbows, along with green cargo pants and black boots.
Trella jumped back and growled. "It's still me Trella. Look more closely." Doing so Trella saw that inside the boy was Silver. "This is just an illusion; if you know what you're looking for you can see straight through it. In the morning you can try yours. The night is half over. Let's get some sleep." Silver dropped the illusion and headed back for the den.
Trella stared after him. He had changed. Nothing major, but he seemed wiser, as if he had also been through hard times. She wondered if he was indeed still the pup she remembered as she had first thought before the escape. He was not as innocent as he seemed when he rescued her. "Are you coming Trella?" she shook out of her musings and headed for the den. Everyone had to grow up sometime. He just did it while her back was turned. But she couldn't be mad at him after all hadn't she done the same in the Pit. Trella crawled inside and placed her head around his neck. He sighed a happy sigh and waged his tail once. She smiled faintly hard times or not he was still her Silver.
Trella's human form reviled in the next chapter but suggestions are still welcome her look is not 100 dicided. Still would like to know if I should add more or less of the Pack's search for Toboe. Also if you are waiting for Cheza just to let you know it's not going to happen she's to confusing a character for me to write. Plus if your looking for a time in the show I guess it's after the fight for Paridise at the end. And I'm going off the book and the anima so if there is some confusing parts thats why.
As always your thought and suggestion and welcome.