Aidan let both Kakashaâ€™s comment and then Julietâ€™s little joke roll over her and wash away her bad mood, standing from Thomas she stretched a bit. â€œNo need for all that now Juliet I mean he is but a baby, perhaps we could let Jaden off with just a simple branding and leave the rest of it for the othersâ€ she chuckled lightly as she moved to go and clean up the mess from breakfast. For the most part just seeming to ignore her little bit of an outburst in regards to Thomasâ€™s attention toward Lucia, because what claim did she really have on him? And was it him that she really wanted to be with? These were the questions going through her mind as she gathered up the dirty dishes and pans, taking them down to the small creek to wash and scrub. Having exposed food out and readily available to the random wondering animal often ended in them having to fight some hungry bear, cougar or even a natural wolf every now and again when they came sniffing about the cave looking for food.<br/><br/>There she knelt cleaning the dishes humming lightly to herself while she worked, a habit was a habit no matter what the conditions and so she hummed. The dishes slowly getting clean underneath her skilled hands, all the while having an inner battle with her shewolf who wanted to go back to Thomas and stake her claim more firmly. Every male was a potential mate to her and with her impending Heat the shewolf wanted to make sure that the other females understood that she got first pick when it came to choosing a mate. Aidan was naturally a strong, independent and dominate person, this transmitted into a rather aggressive and somewhat stubborn shewolf who went for what she wanted regardless of the consequences. It was this attitude that had found Aidan beneath the bleachers with her date to junior prom and his best friend, her first Heat and the shewolf had wanted a bit of fun dragging Aidan along with her. Oh the look on the best friendâ€™s date face when she found them, then the following shocked look of the principle who had to drag Aidan off of the two boys.  Even as she sat in the principle office waiting for her parents she could not keep her hands off of her date, who was rather stupidly sat beside her.<br/><br/>It was after that moment in her life that she truly began to learn about who and what she was, trying to find a way to at least appear normal even though she was not. It was hard and when she lost her first love to some other chick as she was locked in her room for a month during a particularly long and hard Heat, Aidan had tried to kill herself but fortunately her parents were able to save her. It was then that she achieved a new level of respect and understanding for what she was and began a lifetime of coming to a balance with her other side so that an incident like her junior prom does not happen again. So she will just sit there by the bank cleaning the dishes till her and her inner wolf could come to an agreement of sorts before she found herself trying to rip the throat out of another female moving in on what she claimed as her own.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">Eryan watched Aidan walk off, noting the tension in the other female though she seemed to try and play it off.  Shaking her head wondering when did the heats become such a serious affair between unmated people? It was not like they were trying to add to their numbers right? Smirking and going to retrieve her bag she shouldered it, â€œWell since you all are not giving me the answers that I want I am going to just go into the cave and get Sherman myself!â€ she chuckled as she went into the cave her eyes adjusting to the dim light allowing her to take in a fairly different layout. It looked like a bunch of people were away, but not just hunting like gone away. Eryan was more than a little worried about this as she made her way back to what use to be her spot, dropping her bag in the space kneeling down to root around in the bag for something and producing a small wrapped box; about the size of a jewelry box. Smiling, box in hand she walks over to Shermanâ€™s sleeping area but when she arrives she finds it oddly cold, his scent faint when it should have been strong. What was going on here? <br/><br/>Setting the box down on his furs she stormed back to the cave entrance, â€œOkâ€¦look if this is some kind of a sick joke then itâ€™s not fucking funny! Where is everyone else? Where is Sherman?!â€ she snapped in a half growl, her fangs cresting a bit in her mouth as her anger and worry rose. The fact that her bond with them was not there was making her feel even more out of place and on the fence; she should be able to feel them all but she couldnâ€™t and it was starting to get to her. The long so bus ride home, then the long trek through the snow alone, the missing pack members and the lack of her bond with the pack was weighing heavily on the young female and she felt as if she was going to lose it. She needed some answers and she needed then now. </span>