Restless Stroll

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mercianne

Walk | Talk | Think

As excited as she was nervous, Mercianne returned Awaken's smile with an uncertain one of her own when he announced she would be given the easy part of their task. What was that? What was she to do? Not for the first time, she wished she had been schooled like the other wolves had been in their packs and not neglected like she had been in hers. Everyone else seemed so good at what they did, well rounded enough to be an asset at whatever they set their minds to doing, while she struggled to barely make conversation. But I've been improving, a little voice in her mind countered positively, and indeed she had. Hadn't she made it thus far through a conversation with this stranger, this wolf named Awaken? If she could learn how to handle herself around her peers, she was sure to catch up to their level of knowledge in other aspects of life as well.

He took off ahead of her, and with a meek obedience she fell into step behind him. He did not race off ahead, but paused, waiting to ensure that she followed and would keep up, and she lifted her eyes for a second to his, meeting his green gaze, before lowering them to a more comfortable level as she followed after him. A part of her wanted to ask him what it was she would be doing, but it was so much easier just to walk with him and wait with the hope that he would go about explaining eventually when the time was right for it.