This boy is an adventurer and with a spirit as changing as the winds, I think, although I then think how I seem to romanticize the notion and how he probably just wanted to get away from a boring pack life and I was thinking too much on it. Sometimes I tend to overthink things, don't you think?

His initial question makes me furrow my brows as I gaze up at the sky in contemplation. "Uh... It just is," I say finally. That sounded like a good, firm answer, the kind of answer a Queen would give. But now I have the notion to find out just how big my pack was in comparison to others in both numbers and in size. "But I'll find out for sure." I tack on the last bit so that he won't think me one of those rulers who just likes to give orders and state answers without fact - I wouldn't change my opinion until I learned otherwise.

I grin openly at him, quite enthused by his seeming certainty in himself. "I suppose you would know best what you are more than. What were you born to do?" My question is an odd one. His own story seems to answer a bit of it but not quite all the way. There is a tangible answer I am searching for and yet perhaps he has not found his goal, his purpose yet. Mine had always been clear like a red trail demanding I follow. "I'm glad you made it here." This is sincere. I just met him but I like him - his spirit calls to my own and I feel we could be comrades in mischief.

It is easy to tell that he is uncomfortable with my sorrow. I feel slightly guilty in allowing it to be revealed so I quickly try to thrust the conversation back to something more neutral and he does the same. "True, but I have wolves that listen to me and you have only yourself for now, unless you decide to found you a Krypton pack." I wink at him then. "But you know, if you ever get lonely and want a place to stay, even if it isn't permanent, you could come hang out with me in Asteraia. There are lots of prairie dogs to chase and I think we will host a bison hunt soon." Mother always told me that the first step of drawing them in was with adventure and purpose - so I offered both to him.