Sarah O’Shea was running, her hair whipping behind her as she ran her fastest in human form towards her family home. She had scented him on the wind only moments ago when there had been a subtle shift in the wind. She heard a yip in the distance and knew her brother Lucas was running for home as well. She sent back a yip of her own put more effort into her run, determined to make it there first. At the age of thirteen, their youngest brother Maxwell had been taken away from home when he was smaller than everyone and began to fight back against all the teasing he got for being the runt. They were days away from being twenty and didn’t expect him home yet, so when she caught his scent on the wind, she ditched the work she was meant to be doing to greet her brother.<br/><br/>Outside, in the back, by the river that ran the boarder of their pack property their house up on the hill surrounded by trees, she found Max tossing a rock into the water. “Maxie!!” she called, running right up to him and jumping on him as soon as he turned around. He caught her with a laugh as Lucas was rounding the corner to barrel into them and send all three tumbling into the river. They splashed and took turns dunking each other as they floated down it, crashing into each other along the way until they heard the rapids that signaled the end of their territory and swam to the edge.<br/><br/>“Ugh! Shoe squish.” Sarah said, as her brothers shook excess water off. She tried to wring out her shirt before heaving a sigh and doing the same.<br/><br/>“I think that is the most I have ever been in the water.” Max said, shaking off again for good measure as Sarah once again resorted to wringing out what she could of her clothes while Lucas was taking off a shoe to dump the water out of it.<br/><br/>“You never were a big fan of it, even when we were little before you had to be taken away. We missed you.” Sarah said, giving up on her clothes to kick her shoes off before jumping on her too large younger brother. Max gave a shout like he was being taken down before falling over and Lucas right away jumped to join the pile. Which soon had all three of them rolling around like young cubs, playing with laughs, squeals and shouts. They just ended up in the edge of the water until a snapping twig had Max untangled himself to set Sarah behind him, while Lucas got into a low stance ready to fight on his brother’s command if needed. All three were ankle deep in the rivers edge.<br/><br/>“Hello!?” Sarah called, cringing when her brothers both turned to give her a glare. “Sorry.” She said softly, before they all turned to look and see someone walking through the trees towards them as underbrush crunched.