I could feel this meeting winding down. Right now though I wasn’t really planning on going anywhere else until winter was over. No point in trying to lure bad things to happen to me. I don’t know much about Halcyon other than from my short time in Iromar. I remember hearing that he had become alpha though, but by then I had been gone. I never asked what had happened, why he ended up taking the throne for a time. Right now I felt it didn’t matter though. I gave a firm nod in reply to his words, hoping he was right about my mother being proud. I would do my best to serve this land and its occupants though, that was for sure.

I did however know that the scar on his own neck came from Grandmother. He had challenged her foolishly, but I think that challenge too was what made her see him. His love of the land, if nothing else. Why else would she chose him to take the land and not her own blood? Me. I guess I wasn’t exactly what I thought should be a leader anyway. My mother was an Advisor after all, I was simply following in her pawsteps. Still that day she saw something, then put me here to make sure he still kept his promise. I kept him honest, perhaps that was why I was here. Let him fight for the land, let me make sure the land was still being what it was meant to be behind the scenes. I didn’t know, or really care, the more I thought about it, the more I never really had any control of my fate, my life. I wonder what else can be done now that all my family was gone.

He liked my idea, and I gave a little dip of my head in understanding as he said he would try to arrange something with Aster. That I wasn’t so sure of, if Aster was anything she was persistent at least, she would find ways to get these females to come and stay. I mean she’s friendly and I certainly care for her dearly but I know how she can get. Honestly, she’s probably perfect for the job with her enthusiasm and overall inability to accept being told no in a situation like that. I figure she probably would steal them out of the freelands if she didn’t get her way.

The conversation turns as he says sometime we should go to Glorall and Spirane, and I agree. After all it was a time of peace, we should make sure we are open to all sorts of connections for when inevitably these good times would end. ”I thought much the same, but for now, we should focus on the loners and our own. Come spring when packs will be wanting more ties to make sure the newborns are safe they will be more agreeable too. We can go then, if that sounds agreeable.” I say in reply my tail giving a few passive waves.