Mato growls, and perks her ears when she hears something. She looks around in confusion.
*What IS that?* She questions as she turns away from Dashin, and follows the sound. When she finally comes to the source of the sound, she finds a baby wolf. Mato lowers her head a bit to see it better, and sniffs it. *What are you doing here, little one?* She questions. The puppy picks up her nose, and looks at Mato with scared eyes.
*Who are you?* the puppy asks in a frightened voice. Mato smiles, and chuckles softly in her mind.
*A friend.* Mato mentally sighs. She walks up to the puppy, and opens her mouth. Dashin goes to grab her, but stops when he sees Mato begin to groom the pup. He smiles.
"Well, look at that! Who would have known..." Mato lays next to the puppy, and it snuggles up into her fur. Dashin walks towards her, and she bares her teeth at him. He stops walking immediately, and looks at her sternly. "If you're going to be this bad with her, I can just about imagine what you'll be like with your own litter." Dashin hooks a chain to her collar, VERY carefully.
*Yeah well...* She says with a sigh. He walks away from her.
"I'm going to leave you here for a while, I'll come back in a couple hours." Dashin says as he looks back at her. Mato rolls her eyes.
*Whatever.* She rolls her eyes once again when she sees him turn, smirking again. She eventually lays her head down. She hears Dashin laugh once again, and leave. She stands up, and picks the puppy up by the scruff of the neck, and carries it over to a blanket that Dashin had thrown in the cage with them. She sets the puppy down, and looks at her sternly. *Stay here!* She commands. The puppy looks up at Mato with her eyes closed in happiness.
*Okay!* She says. Mato walks off to a nearby corner. She grabs a plate of food in her mouth, and carries it over to the puppy. She sets it down in front of the puppy, and watches as the puppy walks up. The puppy starts eating.
Meanwhile, Dashin and another vampire watch as Mato drops the platter of food in front of the puppy. He looks at the vampire as she watches.
"She has a good maternal instinct about her." The female vampire mumbles. Dashin nods, and looks back out the window.
"Yeah...so, what do you think of her?" He asks, never looking at the vampire. She turns back to him, and smiles.
"She's beautiful!" The female vampire says as she watches Dashin. He looks at her, pleasure at her words written all over his face.
"That she is. She's from a pack just outside the pacific region." Dashin says. She smiles.
"That explains the markings." She says. He looks back out the window after looking at the other vampire for quite a while.
"Yeah, I think she's the pack leader's daughter." He says. The female vampire looks at him with surprise.
"How do you know that?" She asks. He sighs as he explains.
"I found another wolf a couple years ago, he looked almost identical with her, except for the fact that he had more black." Dashin explains. The female vampire giggles.
"That's cool." She looks at Dashin while she asks. "When will I be able to bring her home?" Dashin looks at her with surprise.
"You can have her whenever you want. She's still got quite a bit of attitude,
but-" She cuts him short.
"Can I take her tonight?" She asks. He's taken aback a bit, but nods none the less.
"Sure, just let me go get her. Why don't you wait out in the lobby for us?" He asks. She smiles.
"All right." She slowly walks to the doors leading to the small waiting room.
Meanwhile, Dashin opens the door, and walks inside the huge kennel. He creeps up behind Mato, and throws a rope over her neck. She jumps to her feet, and to Dashin's surprise, she turns to bite him. As soon as she sees who it is, she stops. He smiles at her overprotectiveness over the puppy.
"You'll be a great mother." He says with a smile. She growls at him, and rolls her eyes. He laughs once he sees this, and turns around to leave. "Come on." He quickly fits a muzzle on her mouth, and drags her to the lobby...