I sat waiting on the borders of the pack staring in the distance watching for the one I knew would come. Leonidas. He had to come back at some point and I would be here waiting for him. My mahogany form was flat in the darkness of the night, sisters safely tucked in the den for the first night at home in a very long time. Fall was desending upon us now and soon followed was Winter. There were many things I had to say to this ‘painted warrior’ the ‘shadow’ and Bloodrider of Spirane, many a thing I am certain he will not wish to hear. But I have been sitting on these thoughts for too long, letting them build like white hot fire within me. Like him I am dragon-born my blood constantly boils and fills with emotion. Perhaps he feels it stronger than I, or perhaps I have better control of it. I know enough about our line to know we are meant to be as such, sometimes irrational, but irrational can lead to stupid decisions and many of those sit on the canine I wait for’s shoulders.

I had mingled in Diveen, not a lot but enough to learn the ways they live. Having my sisters as essentially daughters has cooled me down a lot, made me not be the emotional stew I used to be. The one who would find escape in the woods listen to bird songs to cool me and repeat the process day in and day out. I exploded on Purge, went fang to fang with her before my Idunn came not wishing to lose me to. The loss of me would have put the family in more shambles and I knew it, so I took the girls and left these lands to protect them, even though my will and heart commanded otherwise. Duty drove me. Duty to my loved ones, my family. I think it is time I have this talk with Leonidas, not as if he didn’t need it before, but now more than ever I would pin him to the damned earth if I had to.

My tail flicks as I wait for him night falls, he will be home for his Queen I am certain. In what condition I sort of wonder. He was not doing a good job of protecting her good thing I was here… For Leonidas was not the only one to protect her now, I was home, and I had protected her while he decided to go off stewing in the middle of nowhere. She needed him when her mother died and at the very least he finally came to her when that happened.

I will save those thoughts for later though. For when he arrives.

~ Calls Sage’s Soul ~ Serenades None ~ Sings Spirane’s Song~