’...I will share nothing.’ The bite in the midnight stallion’s response is enough to confirm that the wolf had hit a nerve with his shot in the dark. A Cheshire grin slides across his whiskered lips as golden eyes glimmer knowingly. He does not bother to further comment on the subject, it was a sensitive one and one that Annubis was all too familiar with himself. Vihar….Hyacinth…. Even the budding affection he felt towards Hymn and her daughter…Yes, he knew the possessiveness that lurked beneath the battle-scarred hide of the obsidian stallion. It is the same blood that pumps through his own veins. The blood of a herd stallion.

The beast snorts away his amusement and biting retort with a toss of his head, resettling the unruly tangle of his forelock against the flat of his brow. The red-eyed stallion also seems determined to end the direction of this conversation and instead changes the subject to something far more mundane.

Annubis exhales a breath, the joints in his shoulders rolling beneath his silver skin as the beast turns his multifaceted gaze further up the beach. ”I would suggest you keep the border near your herd guarded. I have yet to meet our neighbors and would not put it past them to test us.” he remarks turning away from the obsidian stallion to head back into the shade of the jungle while the sun was at it’s peak. He takes a few departing steps and then pauses, angling his head once more to glance back at the imposing form of his new second. ”Your mares are your own to defend and protect. Come after mine and they will be picking up pieces of you from one end of Paradise to the other.” he finishes, ashen lips parting to reveal yellowing fangs. The threat clear. For a moment there is only silence between them before Annubis turns and ambles off into the jungle. The ground rules had been laid…