Last Arc Family (Sirius the Jaeger)

Canis Minor

Anastasia knew she was winning that fight and would have won if Olga hadn't stepped in and pulled everyone apart, giving them a smack upside the head for good measure.

"You lost to Olga again?" Alexei asks staring at his sister's swollen cheek, trying to figure out was it turning red from the cold or irritation.

"I didn't lost to Olga!" Anastasia protests, "If she hadn't stepped in, I would've buried both Tia and Maria in the snow."

"Like hell!/In your dreams!" The girls in question call from the front of the group. Anastasia huffs and mutters at her lost.

"I see you guys caught a big one," Alexei was referring to the Saiga, "How was it?" In all honesty, pretty hard. It took them four tries between them to finally put the animal down. Olga took it down on the last turn after the first three missed. One couldn't see(Tatiana), one had bad aim(Anastasia), and the last kept sneezing (Maria).

"It was easy. How was your first time going on your own? Were you scared?"

"No! I wasn't scared! And it was exciting and surprisingly easy." Alexei proudly answers but pauses at the end like he wanted to say more.

"But..." Anastasia pries.

"But...but nothing!" Alexei nervously laughs off the urge to tell his sister that he felt like he was being watched. She would probably write if off as him being scared and paranoid. Alexei hands off his catch to Anastasia to kneel down and make a quick snowball, trading the catch back for the snowball. "Here! Put this on cheek! To stop the swelling?"

"Um, thanks Alex." Anastasia hissed as the cold snow making contact before fully pushing the compass on. She knew something was up with her brother, but she'll leave it for later.

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There are a very few early risers in Dogville, even less in Pup Circle. With the even tinier village hidden by the trees surrounding the clearing, if someone were to stumble upon it at dawn, they would have mistaken it for an abandoned village. Now that it was fully morning, the small circle looked more lively.

Once they reached the very edge of the circle, Alexei rushes up to the house that was closest and stood behind the woman kneeling down and working in the small patch of flowers. He stands there for awhile and was about to scare her, but she beats him to the punch.

"Trying to scare me again, Alexei?"

Alexei pouts, how did she do that? "I'll get you someday, Ms.Evgenia." The woman chuckles and turns away from her work. "What do you have there?"

"The bait we caught in traps, which Olga let go all by myself to get and reset."

"Olga, let you go on your own? Well that's a big milestone, Alexei. Im sure your mother and father will be very proud."

"I hope so too," Alexei hoped a bit more on his father's part. He looks behind him to see his sisters far ahead him to the house. "I have to go Ms.Evgenia!" Evgenia waves as the small sirius runs off. He's going to have some impact on their people.

She choked on a laugh at the small boy tripping and falling face first into the snow. Well...not that type of impact.

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Alexei was the last one in to walk in the house and gently shut the door. His sisters were hanging up their thick coats and Olga was reminding them to wipe their boots off, as they forget to do sometimes and trend snow throughout the house.

Anastasia mouthed the words in a mocking tone making Maria sniffle a laugh and Tatiana to hit both their arms. Maria stops but Anastasia hits her back.