Sin trotted nervously through the Under the Zodiac streets,wondering if he was being watched silently this very moment.

His muscled body had been deprived of food for long, although his ribs did not show, he was weaker than he had been in moons. The city was a harsh place for any solitary being. He needed to find someplace to live; he could not survive alone for much longer.

Sin had spent much time as a novice going out with the Scouts. Although it had been clear that he would not be a Hunter, the alpha had been trying to decide whether he would serve better as a scout or Guardian.

He knew the Under the Zodiac gang lived near his old home, and so was hoping to find refuge with them; but if it came to a fight, he would almost certainly lose. And anyway, he had kin within the Zodiac, however much they knew him. He had been told his niece lived there.

He knew not how to approach the situation at hand. Was he supposed to just waltz up and yell that he wanted to talk to the Alpha? That would surely get him killed. But what to do? He could just walk the streets of their territory until a patrol found him, then put his life into their paws and hope they thought he was good enough to deserve a chance. He tread the hard side-walk, dodging a person's feet and scuffing his paws on the hard ground.

He approached the Abandoned Warehouse warily, stepping wearily on his chaffed paws. He entered through the remains what had been a door, but was now a treacherous pile of splinted wood. He stepped warily around the remainder of wood, his muscles stiff and tense; ready to spring. He was plenty aware that he was now in another cat's domain, and that, if need be, he was their prisoner.

He sat down, peering around with dull eyes, waiting for someone to notice him and spring out, hopefully not to attack...

Sin sat, his thoughts swirling over a million little subjects. the highest of which was 'When will they find me? Don't they guard their own domain?'

The second was of their religion. Sin really didn't beleive in any one thing, so would he be forced to take up their religion?

However, his thoughts broke away in a swirling black mass as a shadowy cat landed to the side of him. He swiveled in the opposite direction, jumping back. Hackles raised, claws unsheathed, and lips pulled back in a snarl, he peered at the cat. The obvious authority he possessed would have made him either Beta or Alpha, either one was good enough for Sin. When he finally got a good look at the cat as he brought himself to stand before Sin, he gasped. It was a gasp of both horror and recognition.

This was the cat Rose had courted in secret!
This was the cat she wanted dead!
This could not be good.

He opened his mouth several times, finally wincing at the cat's harsh words. He bowed his head, lowering his hackles-although his muscles remained visibly tensed.

"My name is Sin, sir, and I wish to seek shelter with Under the Zodiac."

Really, it all depended no what they took him for. He hoped desperately that this cat could not recognize him as the brother of Rose. He doubted they would take him as teh guardian of another gang, but after his little display of fighting posture they probably would take him as a loner or housecat-maybe a rogue.

It all depended on what they thought of him...