Tithe

Tithe blinked in earnest surprise at her very first request of him. It seemed as though fate or happenstance were truly trying to play with him. The name she spoke was that of the wolf he had first met when he came to this land, and of a wolf he had very nearly come to selling his soul to in order to feed the deeply buried beast of ambition. His listened close to what Daenery’s had been asking him and considered for a moment.

“Tobias…” He began slowly, thinking about his words before he said them. “...was the first wolf I met when I came to Moladion, his lady the second.” To give himself a moment to think about his welcome to the land, he sat before his Queen before continuing with his otherwise unbiased opinion. “When I was with them they seemed...odd. Tobias was unpredictable in his actions when he and I… played?” Tithe had no other word to describe what had occurred between him and the black wolf. There had been violence and a threat, but also a strange illogical innocence even as the beast had snapped his strong jaws at the leaves under Tithe’s paws. “As far as the Alpha of the pack, I don’t know how to explain my visit with her.” His head tilted briefly. “What she said seemed honest and kind, but the way she had said it was unsettling.” Feelings had little to do with facts, but he felt as though in this matter the feelings behind what he had experienced were important. “It seemed as though there was no feeling behind what she had said, as though the words were merely those. Words. I have not heard the rumors, nor have I had a chance to meet any of the pack, or from the pack. I will see who I can find.” That had been his task, after all. Getting to his feet again he hesitated. “Each of these sources will be biased. I can say though, if I were to come across them again I would treat them with the respect they showed me. I would hear what they had to say and evaluate it against other sources.”

Dark eyes looked over his new leader for a moment and he looked away in shame. The hunger for power that had clenched his belly in the fields now seemed to bring him pain. When he had been around them he had felt like he could not trust them, and in a sense he could not trust himself. Tobias had acted in such a way Tithe knew he could not stand by a leader that possessed their subject, nor could he stand by a leader he could not feel safe around, or learn their actions and behaviors. When he had thought about joining the plain wolves it had been purely for power.

“From my personal experience, my lady, I would never trust them with my life. Nor the lives of those I care about. But I will see what others have to say.”