STOP! - Sweater Time

<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || His nose twitched; the cold tingle of the sewer entrance, made chills scurry throughout his body. Pulling away he looked back at the winter wonderland. The snow was heavy, blanketed like layers of pasta. Thick, icy flakes fell from the sky. He was happy. The Boss had accepted Verraco into this new land of the Mafia. No longer would he be just another hound dog – he'd be a respected member of something. Glassy, blue eyes turned to the dimly lit sewers; his paws thumping against the ground, claws tapping lightly on the concrete. His nose cringed a bit at the smell, but it wasn't as bad as the deeper down sewer system of Di Fonga. The mutt ran a tongue over his teeth. He'd taken a bit of food from that old buck hidden in the woods; that he had caught with Jean-Baptiste. Most of it was rotten, chewed off bit by bit, so Verraco fingered the merle wouldn't care if he took some. His eyes ran over the ceiling where heating lamps hung, warming the ground. He settled back onto his haunches, ears twitching every now and again – waiting.
<KinseyNicole> Kinny had successfully managed to pull her way out of the alley that she had called home for the past 4 days. She had been limping her way around town, she refused to go back to the sewers, she feared that if other dogs saw her this...this broken that they would take advantage of her. The snow still covered the ground, making the cement slippery. Her back leg was still puffy and hot, but it seemed to be slowly getting better. Well at least thats what she decided to convince herself. She missed home, she missed food, she missed heat. She sulked her way around alleys and down blocks, hoping something could make her smile.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The merle capo had been sleeping in the train yard as of late. He felt sick. His hunger seemed to get the best of him as his stomach growled. Ugh. Jean slowly got up from under his box car, and started to make his way towards the sewers. Baptiste had been nagging him for a while now. Begging to be let out and kill that stupid Shepherd. Jean wasn't about to let that happen. He was getting sick, Baptiste causing bile to build up inside him. The Remington's usual bright pale eyes growing dull as the days went on. Baptiste was essentially causing Jean to grow weak by attacking his immune system. The sick Jean wondered towards the sewers, the cold getting to him. He saw a familier figure sitting outside the drain, waiting. It was Verraco. ∞

Snow shouldn't exist. The storm drains didn't drain snow. And the lack of water run-off was allowing some of the worst of the odors to waft up from the sewers below. Aries didn't really care for the smell in his sleeping area. And he would have liked to spend more time sleeping when all it was doing was snowing outside. Of course, that act would  be much easier and more comfortable with more blankets. Cream paws trod across icy metal grates as he trotted past the water basin, noting there weren't many dogs there – and fewer blankets. He wasn't the only one feeling the chill. Well something needed to be done about that. Beyond the puff of his visible breath as he exited the drain system he noticed a pair of dogs, and gave out a single announcement bark to announce himself.

<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || Verraco's oddly, large ears twitched; brows furrowing a bit. He could hear two dogs, but coming from exact opposite directions. Mm. He glanced ahead of himself to see a, rather beaten up looking merle, come towards him. His head lowered a bit, and he wagged his tail. Whom else could it be? Jean-Baptiste was the only other merle canine he knew in this place, "Good morning, sir." His eyes tired to lock onto the other's but, couldn't for some reason. The hound, quickly, snapped his head around to see a rather hefty, dog, barking. He lapped over his canines for a quick second, then lowered his head a bit more; seeing that this canine was higher ranked, the way he held himself. Verraco gave a quick, sideways glance towards Jean-Baptiste, looking for answers to whom this dog may be; but after a small while, Boar turned his attention back to the shepherd mix walking this way.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Jean shook his head as Boar tried to see if he knew who the new high ranker was. "Good to see you Verraco." He calmly licked the other merle's face and walked past him towards Aries. "Hello Sir. Hope nothing is going wrong for you to announce yourself to us." Jean felt Baptiste stir inside him, knowing Bap wanted to get out and snap at anything. He didn't notice that Kinny was near by. ∞

Aries didn't miss the lowered head from the scarred merle, nor the taller merle capo approaching.  Finally some cannon fodder that were getting the hint. Made his life easier. " 'Ello boys. Its Aries, if you're curious." He paused, waiting to see if they would introduce themselves. Aries made it a point to attempt to learn the names of the Di Fonga pack members as he ran across them. " You two seem able-bodied.... enough. We've got work to do."

<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || The male's eyes scanned over the mix for a second, before lowering again, "Verraco…sir…" He said clearly, yet calmly enough to not show dominance. The merle raised his paw, as a rat nibbled on it. Verraco lowered his paw, waiting for Aries to pass him, walking towards the exit of the sewers. The merle growled lower, then tore into the rat, flinging it at the wall. Disgusting little rat. He licked the blood from his jaws, got up, then followed the Elite quietly. Boar didn't notice himself, it was a habit of his, but he came in close to the mutt's heels, and began to sniff. He did this when he was a pup, meeting all the higher ranks; it was just in his memory of how to meet others. While the casual hound dog went for the butt, or the male junk; Verraco sniffed at the heels, the paws, and the flank. His floof, a sad excuse for a tail, flicked in curiosity; then he slowed himself to walk along Jean-Baptiste's side, "What work would you have in mind for us today, sir? If you don't mind me asking?".

<KinseyNicole> She didnt want to have to pass the sewers but, there was no where else to go. Limping towards the shit hole she pinned her ears back, males. Just the bunch she didnt want to run into. She noticed in the past that males, above all, had such a high pack mentality it was just pure insanity. She knew she couldn't run even is she tried, hell she could barely walk as it was. The King shepherd nodded her foofy head at the boys, she was still scared of JB, although she wouldn't admit it, he scared her to death. She whinced as another jolt of pain shot up her leg, none the less she continued forward towards the males, trying not to look so out of place.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The merle capo followed after Aries, hearing a yelp he saw Kinny. His eyes narrowed a bit and sighed. He tried to help her, but there was not point in helping someone who refused it. Baptiste wanted to just rip her apart. The thought made Jean even sicker. The cold air wasn't doing Jean any favors, his nose started to run. He sniffled and looked at Verraco. "I am rather curious myself. What is this job?" The Remington licked at his nose and flicked his tail lamely. He hoped he'd get better soon. Deep down though, he would never get better with Baptiste still in the picture. ∞
"The sleeping areas are looking rather scarce. With winter setting in, this is unacceptable. A pack weakened by weather is not something I will tolerate. So, insulation it is." He was going to say more, but instead pause. Aries sniffed. Another dog. Another Di Fonga. He turned his head to notice a shepherd approaching. Female, with a limp? Hmm, he'd seen her around the water basin before, but not with a limp. Why was one of his pack injured? Was this another one of those idiotic Di Trieste breaking their truce? The mix bristled. "You there." he directed his comment to Kinny, "Did Di Trieste do this to you?"
<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || Verraco looked over at the Capo's sniffling, and licked at his muzzle, a sign of empathy, or what the hound could give; not truly knowing the situation of the Capo, "You should've stayed back; s'it's too cold out here, when you're sneezing and sniffling, sir." Verraco often gained the Southern slang from his father; which often times made him harder to understand with his thick Spanish accent from Mother. His eyes watched the Capo for a minute more, before turning to see a familiar shepherd – limping. The hound lowered himself a bit to pass Aries, walking up to Kinny's side, "The weather must be beating you up, miss; let me help you walk at least?" He glanced at her wounded leg, then pressed up against her side; walking her towards the Elite. It was only a gentlemanly thing to do for a damsel in distress.
<KinseyNicole> Surprised she looked up at the large orange and tan male, who was he....? she perked her ears up ".... uhh not that I know of.... I dont remember much.." Kinny trailed off, knowing that that was all she could give him. She couldn't help but flinch as the male moved over to her, "Im fine, really. " she didnt realize how cold hearted she sounded " Thank you though..." she is an independent female and she didnt need any silly males help... her ears twitched in annoyance toward the Remington. Something about him just made her uneasy, nothing felt right when she was around him. And things never went well when she was around him either....
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ His gaze turned back to Kinny as Verraco began to help her. A low growl escaped his lips as he fought to keep Baptiste from breaking into a run at her. Let me finish her Johnny boy. Come on. She won't feel a thing I promise Jean started to walk closer to the Shepherd, but stopped when he looked at Aries. No doubt if Baptiste attacked Kinny now that high ranker would have him down in a millisecond. "Better get inside then huh? Don't want you catching your death." It was sarcasm, and it wasn't Jean's normal voice. It was Baptiste's. ∞
Aries lowered his hackles at her admission. One would think one would remember an attack by the opposing mafia in town. "Perhaps rest will help with the swelling." He moved aside for the catahoula mix to help her, turning his head to look at the capo as he spoke. Was that sarcasm he heard? Or had the capo suddenly caught an icicle up the nose with the strange tone change. Well he'd see about that soon enough. "Catch up if you can, Verraco." Aries glanced over his shoulder before turning to brush past the capo, tail curled high over his back. "You. With me, there's work to be done."
<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || Verraco side stepped, quickly away, just a little. He didn't want to cause any uncomfort, but the shepherd had too much pride to admit she was hurt and needed help. The hound nodded strongly at Aries, and walked back towards the sewers with Kinny. His paws thumped through the snow, quite easily, "I didn't mean to trouble you any, miss. I just strive to be helpful." He said quietly lowering his head, and looking forward a bit.
<KinseyNicole> Looking up at the obviously higher ranked male " Im fine, thank you, I just need to walk it off." she gave him a nod. Looking towards Boar she smiled and wagged her tail, she liked him, he was sweet. Kinny turned her head and glared at the fast approaching male, how dare he. One minute he wants her dead, the next he wants to help her and now what... she let a small growl rise in her throat " Are you really going to start this... again? What the hell is wrong with you." she was sick and tired of being push around, treated like some little defenseless pup, always being pitied, frowned upon and deemed useless.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Jean regained control, only allowing Bap those words. Jean didn't hate Kinny, but she had a mouth. The Remington growled low at Kinny as she snapped that response. Let me at her now! "You have no idea. If you'd just listen for once maybe what happened to you wouldn't of happened." He was right. She had to of heard the car coming. The capo walked after Aries, and remained beside him as he followed. "Where exactly are we getting blankets and stuff, Sir?" His tone returned to normal Jean, his tail hanging low. The Remington was quite exhausted, being sick because of Bap and all, but he kept moving. He didn't want to lay in the cold and die. ∞
Aries stopped in his tracks at the growl from the female, taking note of the situation. Bickering now amongst the cannon fodder? Unrest? This would need to be nipped in the bum before it got further. "Lass, I don't think walking it off is going to help if you're hallucinating. I don't require the inured to damage themselves further for this mission. However, if there are accusations of past events that need be aired," Aries flattened his ears back across his neck, "Then you are free to come along and we can get this sorted out as we walk."  He began walking again at the capo's question,  "We are going to the store where the humans like to shop. They unload things in the back from large trucks."
<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || Verraco stopped in his tracks to watch Jean-Baptiste and Kinny; he was never quite sure on the basis of the pair's problems, but it wasn't his job to find out. He was quite confused, and it seemed like Kinny honestly did not want his help, so he followed back in line with Aries. He kept his head low and quiet, actually some what interested in what the Capo and Shepherd were to dish out. However, Verraco would keep a close eye on the merle Capo; he admired Jean-Baptiste as a small time leader, but did not fully trust him – most times only around the shepherd. He had some sort of odd energy around him when the shepherd was near. Verraco would protect the shepherd if the Capo tried anything funny, as it was his job to help keep peace around here.
<KinseyNicole> The hair on her neck stood up, what happened to me wouldn't of happened if I had listened... what the hell did that mean. She snapped her jaws closed as JB turned away, annoyed at his shitty personality and attitude. She folded her ears back as the elite spoke. Im not hallucinating.... she shut up and followed him. Keeping a ways away from the prick she gritted her teeth. Why was everyone so condescending? she let out a sigh awe poor little puppy, now let the big dogs to their job and shut your trap her conscious mocked her. Swiveling her ears back she wrinkled her nose at the ground.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ He watched Aries closely, and nodded. It was so cold out. He had good length fur, but he was already sick. Jean felt that he wouldn't get better any time soon. Not with Baptiste causing him to get weaker. "Sounds good." If things went downhill, Jean no longer cared. He felt Verraco appear with the small group and sighed a bit. He knew the merle mutt would protect Kinny. I'll kill that dumbass too. Let me at them both Johnny boy. Jean's lips curled over his teeth as he pushed Baptiste out of his mind. He wasn't about to let Verraco or Kinny get hurt. ∞

"Ah, now this is the silence of a pack that knows what its doing." Aries quipped after several minutes travel down lightly snow peppered sidewalks. He had never been one to keep his thoughts to himself, regardless of how incendiary those comments may be. He drew up short as they neared a thin row of scraggly trees at the border of a parking lot, leaf-less trees leaving little place to hide. Across the lot several tractor trailers could be seen backed up to the unloading bays at the rear of the superstore. "There they are. Chock full of human things. Some of which are surely warm."</i>
<MrStubbyMcStubberson> || The hound stopped behind Aries, looking over his shoulder at the trucks; then lowering his head again. It was not his part to question how they were to snag the warmth without getting caught. How could he? Aries was Elite, he had made it to Elite for a reason – it wasn't being stupid; he had to know what he was doing. Verraco lapped over his canines, then turned his head towards the two. His glassy eyes switched between the Capo and Shepherd quickly, intense, a bit stern, "Sir…miss, it would work in our favor to not get caught here. If you have any words or growls to push out; please wait? I'd hate to sound rude, bossy, pushing; but I would to hate us to end up hurt in this small mission, worst yet – in the pound." His voice was quiet, and sincere, "I care about the both of you, you are my pack mates, I look-admire you. I would hate for either of you to get hurt, further." His words trailed off looking at Kinny's wounded leg, and Jean-Baptiste's sluggish, sick appearance. He turned back towards Aries, voice a bit confident, "Ready when you are, sir.".
<KinseyNicole> Kinny nodded to Boar, looking at the trucks and people made her smile. Maybe... just maybe this was her turn to shine, and maybe get rid of a dead weight. Sitting down she looked at Aries and then locked eyes with JB " After you kitten." a smug sarcastic look was painted across her face. She was no weakling. Maybe after this someone would take her seriously.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The capo narrowed his eyes at Kinny and just shook his head at her. He looked at the trucks and felt Baptiste claw at his brain. A low growl escaped his throat as he tried to fight him off. The opportunity to take out that Shepherd within his grasp. Jean didn't want to hurt her or for himself to get hurt, because Bap always left Jean to take the beating. He had faint scars from Mila and Erebos. Erebos… he missed that cream capo. "I'm not going to fight with you, Kinny. Its pointless when your in that state." He muttered, his nose running again. He licked his nose and pinned his ears to his skull. Baptiste was craving some conflict, but Jean wanted nothing to do with it. I would have to take a really snarky comment to make JB snap right now. ∞

"Listen close, we have a short window here." Aries huffed as collie eyes stared down the loading bays. "The humans carry the boxes out of the truck with their machines, they call them fork lifts, I won't quiz you on that though. But they're slow, it takes them a while to carry each load into the store before they come back out. After they go inside, we go in the truck. Rip open the containers, as many as you can, as quick as you can, so we can figure out what's worth taking in there. When you find something good, let us know. Everyone grab as much as you can, and we get out of there. Quick, you all got that? We won't have too long." He looked over at Kinny. "You. Don't carry more than you can with that leg, got it? You're worthless if you can't move." Aries then turned brown eyes onto Jean-Baptiste, "You, capo, you're the fastest among us, I want you in first, out last, got that? Keep your head on those tall shoulders and let us know if the humans are coming. Are we good? Good, let's go."
And with that the collie mix set out in a low stalking pace across the parking lot, skirting around the edges of the few cars in the lot as cover.
<KinseyNicole> She rolled her eyes and smiled " In my condition, this, this is temporary. You. Your always fucked up and always will be. " She waited for him to follow the elites orders. She nodded, knowing that she can handle herself just fine. " After you pretty boy." she gestured to an open truck, waiting for him to go in.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Jean growled at Kinny, his large lanky frame close to hers now. "Shut up for once in your damn life!" And with that he darted off on his Capo long legs and made his way onto the truck. He hid in the shadows, making sure not to be spotted by the humans. He looked around, seeing if there were blankets or pillows. He found blankets and quickly and stealthily made his way over to the container full of them. Using his sharp canines, the merle capo tore into it. You will let me kill that shepherd otherwise… I'll kill you Johnny. You know I'm the one making you ill. Come on… let me rip her pretty little throat out… Jean snarled and ripped into the container more. He prayed the humans wouldn't see him as he pulled blanket after blanket out. ∞

"This is not the time nor the place fodder." the collie growled lowly in warning as he skulked after the capo to the truck, glancing in to see him already well on his way to removing blankets. Good man, he thought, and would have said as such if he didn't view silence as being so key to the mission. Instead he slunk past that truck on the unloading ramp, to the one docked next to it, hopping  across the small gap with barely a scrabble of clawed noise on the metal floor. Cold, cold metal floor. He sniffed quickly around the packages, but it all smelled of plastic, and fake flower[perfume] and human. Nothing useful to be learned there. Instead he tore into the first plastic wrapped palette, only to have several bags of... dried flowers? Fall out. What did humans want dried flowers for? Ugh, not important. He moved to the next set of boxes after a quick glance of his shoulder, the grab a corned between fangs and pull, pull , tug and riiiip the box opened to reveal soft material. Now this was more like it. He quickly thrust his snout into the open side and pulled out... human clothes? Well, that wasn't quite the blanket he had been hoping for like JB had found.
<KinseyNicole> She smiled, poor pretty boy was getting his feeling hurt the King Shepherd followed him slowly, not wanting to waste her energy. Kinny slowly shook her head as JB tore into the boxes, such a shame, maybe if he wasn't such a dick it wouldn't have to go this way. She sat down at the mouth of the truck and let out a loud bark. " Oh opps... did that slip?" she growled low and loud standing up she bared her teeth at him. " Has anyone ever told you what a prick you are... cause well you are... just incase you didn't get the hint." she let out more loud barks over and over again. She had him cornered, he would have to go through her to get out, and by the sounds of things the humans were already headed there way. She didn't give a shit if she was caught, with a pretty face like her's she'd be in a nice warm home for the winter. But that mess of a dog before her, was bound to be killed. She snarled " Sucks to be you.." she chuckled and stood her ground, licking her canines she waited wanting to make sure JB didnt slip past.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ That bitch. Jean snarled and looked at her stand there all innocent like. The barks alerted all the humans. Part of her idiotic plan. Baptiste struggled to break through and Jean let him break through. No point in delaying Baptiste any longer. After what Kinny just did, Jean was done protecting her from Bap's wrath. "You fucking cunt! You'll pay for that." The deep raspy voice that belonged to Baptiste oozed out. The merle capo appeared even larger now. With one swift move, Bap would charge into her, and go for her neck. He attempted to bite down on her scruff, hearing the humans fast approaching. He wasn't about to get his ass caught. ∞

Aries was in the process of seeing if he could stuff a fifth top in his mouth when he heard the bark, his body instantly dropping low to the floor as he spun, teeth baring (though they were still sunk into clothes so it might not have been as impressive as he'd have hoped) as he looked for approaching humans. That was what the bark was about right? Because humans had been seen approaching? There would be no other reason to bark except to alert them because it would surely give them away to every human in the bay area. Time to go then. He leaped out of the tractor trailer, landing on slick concrete as he let his rear keep sliding to spin him in a nintey-degree turn to face what he had hoped to see would be Kinny and JB, each escaping with blankets or whatever they could grab. He didn't see a bit of that though. No, there was the shepherd, nothing in her maw, staring down the capo in the corner, insulting him., blocking him from escaping. Really? Was this bitch actually endangering this mission for petty revenge? He would have yelled at her, he wanted to so badly, but his mouth was full and he wasn't giving up these prizes just for that.. And a glimpse of motion out of the corner of his eye told him the humans were fast approaching, aware of the canine intruders. With a muffled snarl he charged the shepherd, leaping headlong into a body slam aimed for her hips, clothes still gripped tightly in his teeth. He had seen the limp, he had seen the weakness. Had this not been such a horribly bad place and time, he might have considered not going for a weak point. But this was neither of those, and he would be damned if he'd leave JB there to be caught by the humans. He hoped to hit her and take her down in one swift move, allowing the capo to escape the tractor trailer.
<KinseyNicole> She snorted, but as he lunged she braced herself, feeling his teeth nip at her scruff she'd counter by trying to wrap her jaws around his leg of shoulder, trying to keep him from leaving. She was done playing miss sweetheart, it was time to put on the war paint and back up her bark. She growled as he was on her " Come on, I've had better lays this this... " she snarled and laughed, trying to offend him but also challenge him. If he was going to be a dick, then she sure as hell was going to put on her bitch face. Feeling a sharp pain throw though her body she went limp, not of long but long enough, she tried to grab on to any piece of dog she could snag.

<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Snarls ripped through Baptiste's throat, but he watched as Aries took Kinny down. He'd owe Aries later. Now he went to grab blankets in his jaws and looked at Aries. "Leave her!" Baptiste would get his revenge later. Jean was surprised that Bap didn't go for the kill when he could, but Humans were shouting and making loud noises. They were coming for the trio, and Jean wasn't about to get caught because of a sad pup bent on making a fool outa him. Baptiste slunk back into Jean's mind, and Jean took over. He had the blankets he could carry and his eyes darted over to Aries. "Come on!" He managed to mutter through the cloth. It was back to Jean's normal deep voice. ∞
Aries' continued to snarl through his nose and cloth-filled mouth as best  he could as he none too gently trod upon Kinny's injured leg as paws scrambled, he forced himself up and over the shepherd's momentarily limp body, nimbly lifting front paws to avoid her snapping teeth as rear claws dug across the skin of her leg or whatever was available for purchase as he cleared her, taking off after JB as the capo and his long legs beat a smart retreat. Aries would have liked to have stayed to deal with Kinny personally, but the needs of the pack, the needs of the LOYAL pack, came first. Besides, the humans were closing on the area anyhow. They may not have been able to catch a healthy dog like Aries, but the shepherd and her injured leg? Well animal control might just have themselves a new ward as far as he was concerned. He ran with the capo until they were well away from the superstore, back in the suburbs well on the way back to the sewers.
<lilsav> Cinders had been out, leisurely strolling to stretch her tired legs- coughgetthefuckawayfromatrocough. When she'd heard a lot of noise coming from a nearby store-specifically the back. ACO was showing up, even. Uh-oh. The High-ranker made to move in on the situation when Aries and Jb tore off by her. Thinking that was everyone, she turned as well and hastened to keep pace with the males until they were at a safe distance. Panting a little, she asked, "What happened back there?" She shook out her coat- feeling bones and limbs crack as they were hustled to life by her quick motions. Sighing in relief, the mutt felt much more mobile and fluid now that she was all stretched, cracked and ready.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Slowing down, the two males finally came to a halt near the sewers. Jean's jaws clenched tight around the blankets he managed to grab. His pale blue eyes looked over at the Aries and Cinders. Deep down he felt bad for leaving Kinny defenseless, but Baptiste quickly shook him outta that train of thought. She was gonna leave us to them if Aries hadn't of stepped in Johnny boy… She deserves what she gets Jean looked at Cinders as she asked and growled low. "Kinny gave away our position. Trying to get back at me probably for trying to get her to hunt with me and a few others a couple nights ago." He spoke as he dropped the blankets at her feet. ∞
Aries hadn't known Cinders was out and about until he and JB had run past her, but at least she'd taken up pursuit of them. He'd have been most annoyed to have to give up his clothing prizes to go get her had she gone for Kinny, because he knew Cinders ((assuming as an elite that Aries known who Cinders is)), unlike that cannon fodder, no, that traitor, was loyal to the pack. He slowed to a walk, glancing around with ever-wary collie eyes before halting to drop the clothing and speak. "Traitor."</b" he spat. "That traitor nearly had us all caught in those damned metal boxes. Stupid shepherd. Of all the damned times to cop an attitude.  If I ever see that lass again I am going to have some very long words with her that are going to involve fangs tearing her fragging vocal cords out...." Aries cut his own snarl of that had grown in his voice with that last part of his statement before he glanced over at the darker female lab mix. "Anyhow. No need to pull you into that mess Cinders. This fine fellow here helped gather some nice things that ought to be of use to Di Fonga."
<lilsav> Cinders looked over at JB, whom answered first. Kinny... Oh for fucks sake. "That's highly unreasonable..." She growled softly. Then Aries threw his two cents in and Cinders ran a tongue over her teeth, saying, "Assuming she ever gets out of the hell boxes, it is up to you two to punish her, then?" She sighed and added, "Never minded her too much- that sucks that she did something so stupid." Then her attitude brightened a little. With an ear-flapping head shake, the high ranker moved on to green pastures. "Good! Useful things are always a brighter topic. What's the loot, boys? Wish I coulda been there... another set of jaws to snag things, y'know?"
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Jean nodded agreeing with Aries. "Got some blankets, for the pack." He muttered and nuzzled them towards her. The merle capo was still sick looking, but he felt a little better now that he got a good run in, and Baptiste got a taste of the female shepherd. His tail slowly began to wag as he looked at Cinders. "We would have had more if it weren't for Kinny" Sighing Jean looked over at Aries then back to Cinders. He wished he was higher up on the totem pole right now.∞
"Oh she'll be punished..." Aries huffed lowly, but didn't dwell on the topic. He'd have plenty of time to stew on that later, maybe toss the ideas back and forth with his brother Orion, wherever he'd gotten off to. Aries looked down to paw through the collection of tops he'd pulled from the box, "I believe the humans call them sweaters? Maybe not so versatile as the blankets, but I imagine some of the dogs may appreciate them anyhow." He glanced at the two other dogs, one had helped gather these things, the other a high ranker whom naturally get some of the first picks anyhow. "Did either of you want one? Atro's never been particularly taken with his brother's fashions, but Lenny may be on to something with these things."
<lilsav> Cinders looked as Jean set down the blankets and smiled, saying in a gruff voice, "Atta boy, these cold months are gonna be hard without these. Good job." She grinned at him, then glanced at Aries as he continued. The odd, woolen blanket-like things Aries set down had Cinders frowning. "Oh, yeah... Like Lenny wears," She tilted her head and sniffed a deep red one in interest. "I guess I'll try one- they might be good to have on when we sleep. After all, its cold in the storm drain and when we''re sleeping we could freeze our paws off.." She took the red one and frowned a little, eyeing it. With one paw, she held down the bottom so the gap could be nosed open- then she slid her head in but found the hole not big enough for her block head. "....Something's wrong here...." Good job Cinders, that's the arm hole.

<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The merle capo watched as Cinders attempted to pull on a red sweater. He let out a low chuckle as she was unsuccessful in her quest. Jean looked down and saw an orange one. To make his cloth on his left paw. He leaned down and started and started to sort out the sweater. Hm. Which way was up? "How do these go on? How'd Lenny get his on?" The Remington laughed more as he attempted to slip the orange sweater on.∞
Aries tilted his head as he watched Cinders and her attempts to don the sweater. Come to think of it, though he often saw Lenny wearing a hoodie, he had never actually watched the chimeric capo put it on, so the exact mechanics behind this confused him. He tilted his head far to the other side as he watched JB attempt the same feat, with no more success. He pawed one of the sweaters away himself and stared at it, then back at Cinders. "Perhaps we are doing it backwards." With that observation made, he pushed open the sweater he'd pulled over with his nose, attempting to step forward into it, until he'd gotten all four paws bunched together. He turned in the sweater, kicking paws randomly in confusion, until  he'd turned himself around and gotten his front half back out of the  'bottom' of the sweater. He reached back and attempted to pull it over his  back, only to find he was pulling out his own back feet from under him. With a bit of kicking, his paws found holes, and his tail, a third hole. "I don't think this is quite how it works either." Aries commented. (No, no it wasn't Aries, you're wearing the sweater upside down on your ass)
<lilsav> Cinders pulled her head out and scoffed; "That hole clearly isn't big enough..." She muttered to herself, then glanced at Jean. "Probably struggled- but he'd never admit it." She said with a sharp-toothed, doggy grin as she shoved her face into another, wider hole... but it stopped at her neck- too tight to continue down. The rest of the sweater fell over her face and after shaking her head and body around violently, a steady stream of cussing flowing from her jaws, the rest of the sweater fell to her neck. Now she wore this odd scarf thing- half of it hanging down halfway down to her leg with the arms all over the place. "What the fuck did I do to myself?" She glanced at Aries to observe him rolling around, kicking wildly in his own sweater before finding himself all... discombobulated. "That's definitely not how Lennox wears it..." She said with a snort of laughter.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ Growling, Jean nosed the wide opening of the sweater and slowly made his way to the head of the sweater. He had laid out the sweater to look it over before attempting this, so he hoped he got the ends right. Taking a deep breath Jean managed to get his head through the head hole, and began to slip his lanky arms through the arm sleeves. Finally he got it on right, but then he noticed the hood was hanging low on his chest. Damn it. It was backwards. "I bet Vice helped him. Being his butt boy and all." Jean chuckled, and licked his chops.∞
Aries sat down for a moment, sweater still on his back half to watch Cinders in her attempts to properly wear her sweater, only to end up with an... armed scarf? Well that didn't look particularly useful or right. "Well your neck should never get cold now." he snorted in a vain attempt at humor. He glanced over to JB, noting the capo having a much better time of it. That at least look closer to how Lenny wore his hoodie. And it definitely was better than how Aries himself was wearing it. The hole that his tail was sticking through was also big enough the his rear was still exposed to the cold snow on the ground, so what good was it doing on his rear? He rolled his eyes as he stood up, shaking in an attempt to get the sweater back off, which fell down awkwardly around his ankles. "Heh, it would not surprise me that a Di Trieste would be the one who knows how to put human clothes on a dog." Shaking each rear paw until he could kick the sweater off, Aries stared down at the sweater and looked over the JB. Well that was closer, but how did he tell front from back? His sweater didn't have a hood like the capo's did.</i>
<lilsav> Cinders, who thought of Lenny strongly as a brother and as a very close friend, turned to Jean and said... "That is so fucking true," Cinders looked at Jean, whom had the hood around his neck and said; "You know that isn't a bad idea... like an extra food pocket or a thingy to carry stuff in, y'know?" She sniffed it then said, "You're wearing it better than I am..."</b> Then she struggled to get hers off and growled in agitation until it was finally removed. After that was finally done, she looked at it more closely and put her head in the right hole- the widest- and began to struggle to get her paws to the arm holes.
<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The merle capo chuckled and rolled onto his back as he lowered himself to the lightly snow covered ground. He was feeling a lot better now. Being around these two, and having a laugh made his mood improve immensiely. Jean grabbed onto one of the sleeves with his jaws, and pulled his forearm out. He did the same with the other, and turned onto his stomach. The merle then began to roll around, trying to get the hoodie part in the back. It was working, slowly, but it was working. His body flung snow at the other two as he tried to get the hoodie on right.∞ You look like a damn fool, Johnny boy.
Aries watched  closely as Cinders tried again to wear the sweater – ah, so that was where you put your head, not your but. Humans, they were such strange creatures to come up with these things. After shoving the sweater around with his paws a bit, Aries tried again to put it on, this time sticking his head through first, as opposed to  his bum, and his head emerged through the proper hole just in time to get a clod of snow stuck to his muzzle. His top lip rose in an instant teeth-baring reaction as he shot a look over to the capo, only to realize the dog looked like some strange alien life-form, a head and rear legs extending from an orange tube of cloth, wriggling about on the ground like some half-drowned earthworm. His lips dropped back over teeth as he shook his head to dislodge the snow. This was play, he told himself, that thing his brother was always trying to get him to do. Aries wagged his tail slowly in an attempt to seem more friendly to the foolish looking capo. Who was he kidding. "We all look like damned fools right now." he said, letting out a laugh.
<lilsav> Cinders finally lay splayed out on the ground- head still in the sweater, ass in the air, legs half stuck in the holes. She growled in frustration and pushed herself up, trying to stand but the sweater restricted her movements greatly. Hearing Aries proclaim their current appearance, she said, "Ya don't- oh fuck!" Cinders had unbalanced herself far enough as to roll forwards, head first in a somer-sault before her body thudded onto the ground on her back. A breath of air was forced through her jaws before she lay there motionlessly. "God.. fucking... dammit.."

<IllusioCrocutaX10> ∞ The Remington managed to get the hood part behind his head, and slipped his paws through the arm sleeves. Finally. Jean stood up, kinda wet now from the snow on his hoodie and shook himself. The hood fell onto his face, and he started to growl. "What the… who the!" Jean started to buck, and finally the hood fell back onto his nape. What a strange inconeinvce. Why do humans have that anyways? "Why do these pieces of clothing even have that stupid flap? Do humans enjoy not seeing?" JB huffed and plopped his bum on the snowy ground.
Aries let out a laugh as he watched Cinders take a roll. Ah these human things, they were as dangerous as they were warm. Still chuckling, he made to walk forward to sniff and she if she was okay, only to forget he himself only had one leg part-way through a sleeve, and that did't exactly make him capable of walking either. "Ah-hahah-oh-oh, ohshi-! Unf!" The collie x lab mix stumbled, recovered, stepped on still hanging sleeve, tripped and fell forward onto his face and belly. Why did humans think this clothing was a good idea? Couldn't they just grow fur like every other sane animal? Aries wriggled his limbs under his body until his other leg found the other sleeve and he could successfully worm his feet through to be able to stand. He was grateful the one he had pulled from the pile had no flap to deal with, as he could see the temporarily blinded capo struggling with his human clothing. "They might. The obviously enjoy not being able to smell, or hear, so maybe they do enjoy being blind sometimes too."