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As the days stretched on, Augustus knew it was only a matter of time. Eventually he would need to strike out on his own and find answers to his questions. For weeks now he had put the inevitable off, worried he might accidentally stray back into the hands of a master hellbent on shackling him once more. He was not a coward by any means, but what kind of daft fool would he have been to strut back into chains? For whatever reason, Augustus was free -- free for the first time in his life. It wasn't something he was willing to simply toss aside, and so he took extra caution when approaching the borders of his first target. There were dozens of scents, none of which stood out or triggered something in his memories. The gladiator stood silently as he shifted through them, his gaze narrowed in on the shadowy territory. Who lived here? Where even was here? A thousand questions without answers, Augustus woofed softly into the woods to see what he could find.

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"It seems you've wandered a bit too close to the Elkshire claim." She could smell a lingerer upon the borders, though did not know yet if they stepped through.. She couldn't help not already going toward, especially when an audible woof came echoing through the woods, a curious wolf toward the elken claim. Emerging from the shadows, her head held high while greeting such a lukewarm man, he reminding do vaguely of a guard she knew long ago, but in the end, Celnes knew he was not the same.

A smile gently clung to the corner of her lips, greeting such a stranger with a proud posture of the Queen that she was. Would such a man call out without a reason, especially so close to her claim? She wondered if he was either someone probbing about them, or a potential recruit.

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A woman dressed in darkness arrived soon enough, her mete presence resonating eloquence and sophistication. Augustus would easily have pegged her for a master had she not greeted him so politely -- and yes, saying he was nearly trespassing was polite. She did not immediately tear him down or refer to him as the scum of the earth, and so there was only slight hesitance as he studied her. Did she belong to a master, the bedazzled eyepiece of her husband? He couldn't tell and there was only one way to find out, sadly enough.

"I mean no offense, Domina," the man murmured, certain that regardless of her husband, she was a highly ranked woman. "I've only come to see if anyone might be able to give me the name of this place and the surrounding areas. I woke here just shy of two weeks ago. My name is Augustus." Entertainer extraordinare, resident confused guy, hungry as fuck.

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She in general, knew little about languages beyond that of English, and thought she heard of them and gained some knowledge of some, most still remained a blissful dream of what they could be. She spoke of none besides the main language that seemed to surround the land, and was curious of his own, when she heard Domina. Though smile remained unchanged, and her posture gently loosened away from the more curious man.. It seemed he wasn't that of an intruder, and was indeed someone simply curious of what was around. Nonetheless even so, she continued to keep a more grand posture, one of an Alpha of a pack then a measly common rank - for not only she was used to, but Celnes must always present as someone who owns that of a forest, to which she heavily guards herself alongside with others.

"I am Célnes Déorwine, and this is known as The Elk's Crown," she said, gazing back to her forest before once more meeting his own gaze, "where Elkshire claims that, and the Royal Wisterian Woodlands, and Sleeping Doe's Range."

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