He told me to lead the way- so I did.
Sort of.
I didn’t know exactly where Asteraia was from Diveen. I had seen it in the distance and simply headed towards it. It seemed a decent enough plan after all. Just head towards it. Grandfather told me no great had ever come from those too afraid to try, that greatness was not truly something that could be measured, after all, greatness was subjective- to be measured only by the achievements that others deem to be great and yet if you were too afraid to ever try then there would be no true measure of anything. At least, that is my understanding of it. I am told, by those who are willing to tell, that of all the gifts of Angelic blood, beauty and brains and build there is also a curse. Ambition- Grandfather called it, the sort of ambition that plagues the blood of Angels like no other line. He said it was a need for something, a desire to be more, to climb and climb and climb again because nothing short of the heavens was good enough and maybe he was right. Maybe nothing short of the heavens ever will be good enough for me and maybe, like Grandfather himself, I will always be restless, always wanting more than I have- but maybe I won’t. I’m smarter than that, smarter than them. I have to be. They need not to see me coming and one day they wont- but today, well, what is more unexpected then what is totally expected?
It was a long journey, a lot longer than my legs were willing to actually admit and maybe we were lost more than I liked to believe. Even so, Mother always said that belief was what you made it, that you could make others believe anything you desired and if I wanted Orifel to believe I knew where I was going- then he would. I just kept walking, didn’t let him see me falter or stumble or stare from one direction to the next. I just kept going with my eyes so violet and gold upon the horizon as the trees finally began to thin and I could see the sky again. We had to be close, it was a field after all, large and wide and flat. I let my paws carry me up a rise of sorts, head turning to wait for my brother to come and stand beside me, an actual grin managing to find its way onto my lips at the land that stretched before us. Well. Finally. It was…well….a lot flatter and wider and less stunning then I had expected, but maybe that was just because the current leader hadn’t taken the time to landscape it properly, my silvery white tail waving a moment as I stood beside Orfiel.
“Well Brother- this is it, what do you think?”
I know the laws of packs as well as anyone, I know we are not supposed to cross the border line, but there was no patrol, to guard, nothing and I wasn’t here to steal. I just wanted to walk across my new lands- and plan the upcoming renovations. I let my shoulder brush against the red of my brothers, striding down and onto the land, the grass tall and long- almost taller then I was, head straining to see over it as I made my way deeper into the pack land and further along the plains.
“I think over there is where I’m going to have my den, you can live next door if you want and that big rock over there, I’ll make that my throne- that bush will have to go though.”
I moved to stand back upon my hind legs, wavering a moment, paws coming to rest upon Orifels back, using him as a step ladder of sorts to hold myself up and let me see across the rest of the land before gesturing towards some sort of prickly bush sprouting from the base of a tree and the rock I had decided would be mine one day. I grinned again, little white puppy teeth gleaming in the sun as my shining silver form clamoured only further onto my brothers back until I stood right on top of him.
“I can see something from here Brother, Hyrule Field is a lot larger then I thought, I….Orfiel! Stand still, you’re shaking me!”
He was never going to make a good Second in Command if he couldn’t even hold me up, that was only his entire job. I scowled down towards him, eyes rolling slightly before trying to balance myself once more, my right hind paw slipping from my brother’s hip and sending me tumbling rather ungracefully into the long grass with a yelp, a chuckle erupting from within my throat, a sound not really all that manly- but I was working on. See, I can be funny when I want- something cold suddenly brushing against the back of my head, eyes turned upward before widening suddenly.
“Fiel look! The clouds are…..falling in little pieces.”
Alright, so I’d never seen snow before, how was I to know?
"When I rule this pack, I'm going to grow more trees to stop the sky getting in my fur."
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