Last Arc Family (Sirius the Jaeger)

Orion

"Alexei, hurry up! You're about to get left!" 

"Just a minute!" Alexei, now 10-years-old, calls as he holds the two ends of his scarf. Twisting and crossing them to try and remember how to tie it. He sighs, kinda disappointed that after what? Since he started to walk? That he still didn't know how to properly tie his scarf in the way his mother did it. He would ask Alexandria, but she hasn't been feeling too well and he didn't want to bother her. Alexei mutters and throws one of the tails around his neck. The young Sirius will figure it out later...or eventually. Alexei rushes outside and gasps seeing his sisters already walking the path through the woods. He runs to catch up, giving Evgenia a quick greeting as he ran by. 

"Hi, Ms.Evgenia! Bye, Ms.Evgenia!" 

"Hello Alexei--Hey! Where are you off in a hurry?!" Evgenia stops and looks up from her garden. The woman knew the boy was energetic and that wasn't strange for him, but she swore if Alexei ran any faster he might tear apart the wind. 

"Going into town!" Alexei calls back and finally managed to catch up to his sisters. He slows down to a walk and heavily pants to catch his breath. He musters up enough strength to smack Anastasia in the back. "Why...why didn't you guys...wait?" That run practically ripped the air out of him. Then again he was running through snow, which walking alone was tiring. 

"Alexei, you know the rules. If we're going to town, Olga waits for no one. I mean look," Tatiana points to their older sister who was much further ahead than her younger siblings. "She's walking like she's by herself. Yet, I'm the one that really needs to get to the town." Olga wasn't the one to fool around when it came to going places, especially to run errands. She didn't want to waste the whole day away and wait until the last minute to do something. So if Olga says she's leaving at 9, at 9:01 she's nowhere to be seen. 

There was the sudden noise of something heavy dropping into the snow. The three stop walking and turn to see Alexei had dropped fast first into the snowy ground in exhaustion. Maria and Anastasia look at Tatiana for guidance. Olga had stopped walking, but was still a great distance from them. Her arms were crossed and her face held a neutral expression--that would soon turn sour--an obvious sign that she had no intention of walking all the way back and has basically temporarily given up her title as the oldest, superior sibling. 

Tatiana squats down to Alexei, "Alex, get up." There wasn't an immediate response, but she did receive a tired groan. The second eldest squints at the small body, they didn't have time for this. "Maria, Tasia, pick him up--" 

"But he's too heavy." 

"Then drag him." 
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"Alex, why is your face so red?" Olga kneels down and wipes at his plush cheeks, trying to ease some of the redness from being dragged through the snow. Alexei, too embarrassed to admit that he let them drag him through the snow because he was tired, just mumbles, "The cold wind." 

"Then in that case," Olga unwraps his scarf and arranges it to cover his mouth and nose. "Tatiana, you know where the eyeglass shop is and what to ask for?" 

"Yes, of course." Tatiana looks around the town square they were standing in. The town was small in the public's eye standards, but it was bigger than Pup circle and Dogville combined. It was a very great distance from both and took some travel, but it didn't take the whole day. The Sirius have visited the town a couple times, sometimes more to the point some of the locals recognized them, but they still earned a few stares. "Why do you ask?" 

"Because I'm letting you four go by yourself and explore the town." Olga stands and smoothes out her skirt before moving the shawl she brought around her head, covering her white hair. The four younglings did a double take in excitement but mostly fear. It was great she was letting them go on their own, but even with all the independence experience they had and Tatiana being the second most responsible and oldest at 17, the still need Olga to ask strangers basic, simple...'a-normal-functioning-person-of-any-society-could-easily-ask' questions. "Don't give me that look. I know you four can function without me for a few minutes."