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The same bunch of wolves that had not taken kindly to Agrona’s presence in their garden as she had only wanted a dinner with a view had summoned the Great Kuhn of the Everfrost and were now escorting him off their yard. And here, you’d think they’d be an ally, since Kuhn had said they had their own tiger, but alas, Agrona had not seen said tiger around.

The last time she’d spoken to Kuhn, he’d gone after the canine and she hadn’t really seen him up close and personal ever since. But she had seen him around the tundra, as he was hard to miss, and she enjoyed watching him from afar. When he was, so far, the only male of her species – of course she kept an eye on him.

And now that Agrona was in heat, she wondered how it might feel to birth a litter of kittens. Would her canine children be reborn as tigers, or would they be normal tigers that saw Agrona as a normal tiger, too? She supposed so, that’s what she looked like to everything and everyone else, right? Her ears flickered a bit as she entered the Everfrost.

The tip of her tail flickered as she glanced over her shoulder, wondering if there was possibly any other place for her to be, to go - but there wasn’t, really, because she had no allies. No friends, and Kuhn was the closest thing to a friend.

So he entered his forest in wonder if he was open to sharing.

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It had been some time since his banishment from the lands of Shiroshika, and his relationship with the empress in his mind was set in stone.  There was no more need for effort on his part, and a significant part of his mind was clear now. There was plenty of bounty here in the Everfrost, it was so empty though and now his conversation with @Valmúa weighed on his mind. 

The way that wolves viewed power and companionship was sickening, there had to be a better way. 

Tearing from his thoughts, he caught that scent again, that cat was back. For a moment, a flare of nervousness, and territorial instinct washed up his spine. He remembered how forward she had been with him last time, a bit odd among his own kind.  Eventually the topic of his previous thoughts clicked with the idea that a longer and friendlier chat would be best.  Suppressing his other feelings, he prowled his way through the trees, to meet her on the border.   

"Its been awhile..." 
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^^Agrona was met at the border, this time, and the white cat stopped in her tracks with the arch of her brow. Did this answer the questions that laid on her mind, then? The tip of her tail flickered, and her eyes searched his face for answers of a question she did not yet speak.

“It has. You seemed busy, and I did not want to get in the way,” Agrona cooed with the lick of her lips and the twitch of her nostrils, in wonder if they would remain alone or if his meal would be joining them. The small canine had been the reason that their last meeting had been cut short, after all. 

“How have you been, friend?” She would make no mention of how she had been keeping an eye on him, or her trip to the wolves on the mountain. Not yet, anyway.

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This time the tom decided to take a seat, lashing his tail.  His face didn't really give away much, aside from a lack of hostility.  Briefly, he looked her over, admitting to himself that she was beautiful, though he had no clue what to make of her.  She was a massive unknown. 

"I am doing fine... How are your travels?"  He answered, not wanting to give up much, and pivoting away from himself, after-all he barely knew her.  By this time, some primal bells where ringing in his head as her scent more clearly reached him.  He didn't have to be an expert to realize she was in heat.  His heart began to beat faster, widely yawning to relive some tension.
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^^Silence fell between them, though briefly, as they looked each other over, and he took a seat. What did this sort of feline behavior mean? Her ears flickered forward as she watched him carefully. Agrona remained standing for a moment, unsure if following his actions would be considered a wise thing to do, or an insult and she wouldn’t get what she wanted if she insulted him.

So she remained standing, though nodding her head as he spoke. A smile on her lips, though. “That’s good to hear. My travels have been good, thank you for asking. I explored the tundra and checked out the selection of prey. The pray is.. vastly different than those that I am used to. ” Agrona cooed, licking over her lips a moment as she rolled her shoulders back in order to stretch them a moment.

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he had sat down in his own territory first, a sort of assurance that he didn't plan to drive her off with a sudden display of force.  In a way it showed she was welcome, though she didn't reciprocate.  Putting himself in a vulnerable position, she remained standing and ready.  Generally, it would be insulting, though Kuhn was aware of her current feminine state, figuring a different type of aggression. 

Again, he hardly knew her, perhaps primed from his last experience she seemed very forward.   As she stretched and rolled her shoulders, Kuhn's eyes tracked her feminine yet heavy musculature as it revealed itself through her hide.  "That's good, you seem well fed.", paying her a compliment, perhaps unwise to tell a wolf, but maybe not a tiger.
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^^Well, that was partly true; she remained standing and ready… to leave, should he no longer desire her company. And you’d like to think that Agrona - who had somehow evolved from wolf to tiger - which were both a predatory species… would have connected the dots that sitting was not an insult and that it also meant that he hadn’t considered chasing her off. And perhaps she might have been more aware of this, if she wasn’t in heat and ready for something else.

His comment about her figure brightened her face a moment as though she had not been expecting the compliment. She immediately glanced to look at her figure, unused to the thickness of a tiger and more used to the slender structure of a wolf. She walked in a circle to check the rest of her out, and then sat down in front of him without really thinking. She turned her head to him with a smile and a chuckle. “Thank you! You as well, though I think I might be a little too well fed. The food here interesting, and I just had to try everything once.”

Well, alright, not everything. Not wolves. For a moment she licked her lips and wondered how one might taste. It felt odd, almost… cannibalistic, but they had gotten under her skin as of late. Slightly annoyed with herself for thinking about wolves, she moved to lay down so she could groom at her pelt. She’d glance up to him with mid-lick, with her tongue still hanging out of her mouth, with an arch of brow. “Are there many of us big cats out here, or do you rule the tundra alone?” She hadn't smelled many, but the tundra was wide, and she hadn't checked out the other side, yet.

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After paying her a compliment he watched as she circled around herself. It was endearing to see how she looked at herself as if it was the first time, Kuhn couldn't help but crack a light smile. There was a certain modesty to her gesture that he liked.

As she laid herself down, the male further loosened up, with less of a chance of a sudden conflict. In return he lowered himself down as well, reciprocating her trust. There was something odd about how trusting she was of him, going so far as to start grooming herself. Usually it was best to not take your eyes off a stranger. Though, it wasn't a bad thing.

After a moment, her new closeness reached him, the scent of her heat, pumping his heart and obscuring his thoughts. Chuckling at her joke about weight, he watched her groom for a moment a bit enthralled twitching an ear. "I don't rule anything" he continued with a laugh, trying to burn off tension. "Actually you are the first I have seen in a long while..."

"I'm sure you have noticed it's mostly wolves around here."
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^^Agrona noted the changes in his body structure from the moment she laid down and it almost seemed like he was more comfortable now than before. Her eyes narrowed on him for a moment as she silently thought about this and the different species. She studied him for a moment, wondering if he, too, had been something else before.

And then she shrugged and went back to grooming for a moment, and grinning towards him as he chuckled. Her tail swayed behind her for a moment, realizing she was not a wolf any longer, and swaying a feline tail didn’t feel the same as swaying a bushy wolf tail. “You must have been very lonely,” Agrona commented, frowning softly for a moment.

At his words, the white feline lifted her head to look at him. Ah yes, he had confirmed her suspicions that there were no others. No other tigers to claim her; no other tigers to claim him. At the mention of wolves, her hackles lifted and Agrona stuck her tongue at him to show her great displeasure.
 

She did not growl; she did not move, and she did not advance towards him. Merely just stuck her tongue out and then, like nothing happened, she went back to grooming with a light hum.

“Are you not the biggest creature in the Tundra? Surely, you rule, even if you are not aware of the power that you hold.” Agrona spoke softly and carefully, nodding her head as she flipped over her paw to groom there, too. She flexed her toes for a moment, watching them. What giant paws she had; what giant paws they both had!

“You are not wrong about the wolf, but we could change that.” They could literally create more; she was in heat, after all, as Agrona was sure that he had noticed. Or had he been away from his own species too long?

She looked around for a moment, nodding to the mountains. “Wolves are so predictable. They always choose a mountain to call their home. I’m betting there’s even a pack located on the other mountain, too. This makes them easy targets and easy to avoid.” Agrona chuckled, shaking her head. “They seem to demand respect, without giving it, and that should be a crime.”

Agrona grunted, shaking her head as she came to look at him. She had not actually come here to wage war against the wolf. At least, not yet; it wasn’t as if they were intentionally hunting them down - at least, not yet. They could coexist, if wolves learned how to treat them.

“Are you the only one that lives here, in this quaint little forest? I noticed another, smaller forest near here. Who or what claims that forest? Any idea?”

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Lonely. It was an odd word to use for the solitary cat. At times he felt bored he supposed, though over time here he did come to enjoy the few friendships he had. Or was she implying that his masculinity had not been gratified? By either definition, he hadn't been lonely.

"Actually, no... You would be surprised, but I have actually had a pleasant amount of company." he stated before licking his paw just once, settling into the conversation and letting everything else she told him spin around in his head. It was alot to take in. She was alot to take in.

Exhaling, sharply, he kneaded the ground with his claws. "Wolves will be wolves, just as the caribou will be caribou. What sets them apart is that some of them stand out and make their own way. I have no love for their packs or their order or the desire to rule anything. I am not a wolf, I speak for myself alone and none speak for me."

By this point his eyes had narrowed as he obviously was speaking with passion.

Her insulation about making more of their kind once it sunk in, had to be perhaps one of the most forward things he had ever seen, he had really only interacted with her for a total of ten minutes. Of course they could make more tigers, he wasn't born yesterday. Was her heat really that strong? There was a sort of discomfort on his face in response to that comment. Sure she was great to look at, and even better to smell, but they knew nothing about eachother for such a drastic comment. Once he got thinking about what she actually said, his mind was so stuck in the comment that he failed to move on to her other questions. He just stared at her brows furrowed and confused.
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^^Agrona found herself immediately pleased that he had not been alone or felt lonely. She gave a chuffing sound, nodding her head with the lick of her lips. “I am pleased to hear that you have not been lonely. It is not a great feeling.” Nor was the disrespect shown by wolves, but they didn’t understand the way of a tiger, just as Agrona didn’t.

In many ways, Agrona was still a wolf; learning slowly, but still, learning. Process was process. She watched him lick a paw and knead at the ground and wondered what it meant. He spoke with passion, which Agrona had enjoyed hearing in his voice, truly.

He made no mention of her comment, nor her question. He did not advance towards her, despite being the only other tiger that they both knew of in the region, and despite that she was also in heat. And while it was true that they knew nothing of each other, that was not needed to procreate; Agrona’s last litter had been done with a complete stranger - more of a stranger than Kuhn was. He’d had plenty of time to seek her out before, to get to know her, and he had not. Agrona, too, but she hadn’t been the one chasing after wolves and felt as though he considered her to be a burden.

The offer was there, and likely to remain open for the extension of her heat. It wasn’t as if there were other tigers to breed with. The silence settled over them, and Agrona considered the differences between this meeting and their first. “Ah, well.. I was curious if you wished to join me on a quick.. adventure? I intend to check out that other forest, and was curious if you would like to join me?”

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He watched her from the corner of his eye, the way she looked at him, the way she spoke. Always licking her lips as if she where ready to have him. By now she would have to know what she was doing to him, his mind was clouded, and his own scent would tell of his conflicted feeling here. If it wasn't for the fact that he was laying on his haunches, she might also be able to see his more primal masculine desires spelled out on his frame.

Instinctually, the thought of having his children running around the tundra didn't seem half bad, and amongst his kind, the father wasn't under much of an obligation to help much. Still, it was so sudden, and somehow after his conversation with the great bear he had never addressed, the nature of his relationship with @Valmúa.

Mainly, he didn't know who this was, and there couldn't be any harm in getting to know her a bit more. After all... She was the only other one of his kind around. "I could use a little adventure."

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^^The entire purpose of laying down had been so that she’d been able to see him in all of his glory, but alas, those plans had ended and dissolved when he, too, had laid down. It was truly a heartbreaking moment, but Agrona suspected that he’d known her motives. So, for now, the scent of him would just have to do.

“Adventure time it is, then.. ”

She’d half expected him to turn down her quest for an adventure, but when he didn’t, Agrona’s eyes and smile widened with excitement. Agrona stretched out her paws for a moment with a yawn as she slowly came to stand. She approached him, then, though slowly to give him ample time to sit or stand as needed, but she didn’t touch him.

“I want to check out this other forest up ahead; see how big it is, and if it could house a tiger.. ” Agrona cooed, walking right beside him with the flicker of her tail. “Wolves claim the mountain. You claim the forest. I need to claim something, too.. ” She’d pause, then, to glance over her shoulder at him with an arch of brow.

It was a shame that he wouldn’t let her claim him, but alas, Agrona would smile and wait for him to catch up with her.

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He never took his eyes off of her, she was too much of an unknown and also to alluring. Approaching him her scent only grew stronger. He licked his own lips half an anticipation, and half to relieve tension boiling up inside of him. As she spoke she walked by him at his side almost brushing against him but not quite. As she turned to leave expecting him to follow, the man couldn't help but take a look at her hind section.

Apprehensively, the male stood to follow, with his own haunches out of view. Slowly he sauntered the distance, arriving at her side lashing his tail at the wind. Leaning in his whiskers brushed against her shoulder as he sniffed at her neck. Ready to follow.
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