Question 1: Where did they build Hadrian’s Wall?

Maybe, if I’d been able to see inside her mind I would have liked her even more. She thinks like me, well, sort of. I don’t have any belief about being made out of fire, like I said, I’m all ember and ash and white underneath with just a bit of that red within the thickness of my ruff. The only one of my siblings to be born grey. They were all white or all black or sometimes even a bit gold. I was the grey area- literally and maybe I had something in common with this girl. At least, we both thought we deserved more, we both thought we had some sort of power to be something or someone more then what we were. Although, I wasn’t running away from myself, I was just….bidding my time. Her mention of her homelands saw my head tilt once more, fiery orange and violet eyes meeting her own gaze. Huge plains with some rocks?

“Diveen is like that, but we have cliffs to and a ravine with a waterfall. I like the ravine, heaps of the plants I need grow there. They can be hard to get though. So that’s why I’m here, this waterfall I can access more easily, though I have to carry all this back.”

I scowled slightly at the idea of having to fill my mouth with the water reeds I was trying to dry and lug them all the way back to the pack. It would be worth it, I was sure, though the idea of it hardly thrilled me. Maybe, one day, when I was King I could get someone to fetch all my plants for me. I grinned softly at the idea, a simper of sorts tracing my lips before the fiery coloured girl spoke again. I think we all wonder what we are meant for. I know I’m not meant to destroy, I heard stories of the war and it’s really not my thing. Iromar was wrong, I know that though. I mean, starting a war after they broke the treaty they agreed to within a week of it being made, really? I know Diveen won, I know my Mother never took the spoils to which she was entitled because that is the way she is. I would have taken the prisoners though, made them a pay at least a little for what they did.

“Fire can do more then destroy. That’s how plants grow- they need fire to cleanse the earth.”

She seemed a bit emotional about it, so I tried I suppose, to find a bright spark for her to focus on, after all, fire isn’t all bad- not really, it can do other things rather then just consume and ravage and burn. I understand though, what she means, or at least I think I do. Maybe her family just expects a lot. Just like mine.

“Yes, consider it an invitation then. Tell them Prince Hadrian invited you.”

I grinned slightly once more, tail waving in amusement at using my title before I began to gather up all the reeds I collected, head pausing to gesture in the direction of Diveen.

“Just head that way, go until the trees thin and the skies are clear. Diveen is there, you can’t miss it, open plains as far as the eye can see, all golden in the autumn and summer with cliffs that reach for the sky and a few outcrops of rock. You’ll know it when you scent it, it is the largest, most powerful pack in these lands- but they’ll let you in if you give me name.”

I would have to go soon, it was getting later, though I waited a moment longer, just to make sure she understood. Maybe she could be my supporter, my friend, someone I could take to the top with me. I could use a little fire.