THE TANKLIKE SON OF IFRIT & EVERLYSE
[ male - six years - 31 inches, 130 pounds - no imprint - no mate - asteraia ]
He was bringing her home.
Home, as in the place you knew to be safe, not the place birthed from the rubble of her old packlands. His father and his uncles would have understood, would have known about the places she spoke of. It was a shame, really, that he could have no understanding of the places she had been and seen on this very same earth.
What he could do though, he could bring her to Asteraia, which was once Ferrine, and let her experience the vast openness of the place now that the fabled mountain crescent had crumbled and made these here hills. Open like the field in which they’d met, open like the more relaxed expression on her face. He has no question that Halcyon will welcome her, it was his own job to find those interested in coming, his job to then welcome new incoming wolves.
He sees when she hesitates, waiting, paused as though he could have waited a millennium for her and never grown weary or impatient. Then she moves forward, squinting, stopping a little further in until she smelled the ocean wafting over the flat, then rolling, landscape. She barks and at last he breaks his cover, "At night the skies are so vast and every bit painted like your eyes. You will be at home here, I promise you," he smiles broadly, "The ocean welcomes you just as I, by the power of my Alpha, welcome you… Welcome Home, Sekera."
He suddenly is dropped into the silliest, clumsiest play-bow. His tail wags, and as young and compact as he is, it looks as foolish as he clearly intended. What better to welcome someone home that laughter and joy? Joy of romping was never lost on the truly good souls, not even the noble ones or ones caught up in tactitionism. "Come race me to your ocean; catch me if you can!" and then he is off, hardly fast but his sunburst eyes hold all the mischief of one who has grown up smaller and less quick than a great many strong wolves and who knows how to be trouble for them all the same.
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