I shook my body while in the water trying to get the dirt and grime from my fur before Orion can arrive. It know he will come he always does and never misses a day for us to visit and for me to try and teach him the Ancient Tongue that is native in my father’s lands. Latin I feel will at least help Orion understand my family, its nobility and make him more accepted, particularly with father. I don’t worry about mother, she is a kind wolfess and I am certain she will approve of him, father, I think, would prefer if I found a boy of a white coat to be my imprint. Well there was still time, but as they days passed and we spent time together I was finding my imprinting not to be such a curse as my father believed imprinting to be. Perhaps it was because Orion and I got along so well. He was strong and kind, he wasn’t out to get me or annoy me or any of the things my father’s passed imprint Cat Eye did.

I knew he was different, knew he wasn’t the curse my father believed it to be. After all it was me he imprinted on anyway. He should feel blessed to be with an angel of my stature, but I felt equally lucky to have someone bound to me that I got along with. I had always wondered what my imprint would be like when I was little. I was scared and my father told me that he would bite the head off of any fool who thought they were good enough for me. Well that was why I was here now trying to make sure my father at least didn’t think he was useless.

Paw steps interrupt my train of thought, derailing it. Naturally I thought the sound was Orion but after a few seconds I knew it wasn’t. The comfort of his scent in the air was missing but it wasn’t any less recognizable. I turned to see the black and white form that wasn’t Orion but Uno, my secret keeper. He spoke my name and my visage was rather neutral and perhaps mildly surprised by his appearance. I blinked my mostly emerald eyes, my wet black form turning fulling around standing on my paws before casting my gaze around to see if Orion had arrived. He hadn’t. Perhaps a good thing for I am not sure if I want any Diveen wolf, even my secret keeper to know I have been seeing him.

”Uno, what are you doing here?” I ask my tones even and perhaps a little stiff. I have to learn to control my emotions yet I feel a little scared. He had grown a lot since I spotted him crying by the river in Diveen it seems he took what I had said that day to full heart. I do not go closer though; I stand in the water waiting for him to explain his reasons for following me outside of Diveen. I knew I had passed him on the way out but no one had bothered to follow me before. Why did he think it was so important to do so now? I knew I had told my father of our friendship and I wondered if he was put up to do this. I hoped not, but I wouldn’t put it past father to send someone to see what I was doing. He had the influence and means and I knew he was aware of my visits out of Diveen but he never seemed to care. I wait for Uno to explain himself, happy in part, that he did deem to come right out rather than spy on me. Casting my gaze around searching for the black form of Orion I eye him, come on Uno I am all ears.