@Wrathwyrm
"I'm telling you, we should have taken that turn half a mile back!"
The wolf padding along beside Aiden gave him a very dry look and curled his lips back in a half-snarl. He tossed his head, sniffing dramatically to get his point across. Liam was quite convinced that he knew
exactly where they were going. It may have been some years since the brothers had been home, but he remembered the place like the back of his hand.
Well, paw.
"I know we'll get there eventually," Aiden snapped at his brother. "But we'd be there two hours sooner if we'd taken the damn turn!"
Though the day had been relatively cloudy, what little sun there was was enough to make the vampire irritable. Unlike a lot of his kind, the rays didn't immediately burn his skin, but it
was uncomfortable, and if left unattended for too long he
would start to burn. Their parents had attributed this unusual reaction to fae blood- honestly he didn't care
why, he just cared that he got indoors soon.
Assuming Cara even let them in.
He winced thinking about the baby sister he and Liam had more or less abandoned- to protect her, they both vehemently believed, but he knew she hadn't seen it that way. He doubted she'd changed her mind in the last five years.
Liam, quite done with his older brother's brooding and snipping, shoulder checked the vampire, sending him staggering off the narrow path they'd been trekking along. He gave a wolfy grin when Aiden yelped and had to spin to regain his balance.
"You
ass," Aiden snarled at him, and Liam replied with a growl of his own.
While the brothers hadn't been traveling together, it seemed they'd both had the urge to return home at the same time, and had come across one another on their way to the house where they'd grown up. It also seemed that five years on their own had left them both a little...prickly, as they'd spent the last two days doing little but arguing. Both were sick of it, though neither seemed to know how to put an end to it.
Aiden started shouting, waving his arms expressively as he cursed Liam out for his childishness and lack of responsibility. Unable to reply eloquently in his current form, Liam settled for responded with growls and snarls that increasingly grew in volume with every passing moment.
In a matter of minutes, they were loud enough to send flocks of starlings scattering into the air, and smaller animals like mink and rabbits scurried for their burrows. The brothers didn't notice.