Leaving the confines of Iromar was not something I did because I wanted to. I made sure Curiass knew I did it under duress yet he told me, quite bluntly, that I needed to attend this party. I had suspicions that he might have wanted me to stumble upon that red and white painted sister of his who had caused him no end of grief in Iromar but whatever. My adoptive uncle-parent-whatever-he-was seemed to thrive on the frenetic energy that had come from the assault and it wasn't like I personally gave a whit about either of the alphas. By now I was almost as tall as the alphess and I found her small stature disturbing - how had she ever managed to become a QUEEN?

Curiass would do better as a king. I didn't tell him that yet because he was insufferable, but I thought it with derision whenever I spied her form flitting by. She was made to run and I suppose with my longer legs, I was too, although my chest was a bit broad and I wasn't born to be exceptional at anything unless I put my mind to it. I would become some sort of warrior of Iromar if only because my furious energy needed somewhere to go, despite how otherwise lazy I was.

I didn't hear the call because I can't hear, obviously, but I make my way into the pine-smelling mountains and locate a myriad of foreign scents that seem to merge onto one general path. That is where I find them, my piercing sapphire eyes turning to each one as I sniff rather bluntly in their directions. A Diveen boy, a Taviora girl, a sickly girl from I didn't care where, and of course, my brother. I offer him a curl of my lip and a snide look if only because it was my way to show my own power. Zanon's presence sent a zing of alertness through me - I didn't hate him but I felt a sort of competition from him that made me unbearable at times.

Yet I note the way he offers them somewhat friendly looks and I read his lips as he speaks before I plop down right in the middle of them because, really, I need to be in order to see their lips. "Boneskull. Call me Skull." That is all I say, a bored look on my face.