A Feast to Celebrate

 


Walk | Talk | Think

Her crooked smile curving the left edge of her lips, Gale seated herself in the spot she had claimed beside Locha, watching her brother's girlfriend cast a quick glance his way before she addressed the group. Poor thing, still looking for reassurance. Just as quickly as the thought went through her mind, an accompanying sense of guilt trailed after. Sunshine had been there for a while, and it was obvious Glacier was completely smitten with her. If she was going to stay with them, it made sense that the Elementas clan try to include her in their bunch so she had no need to feel out of sorts around them, or in need of reassurance. Which, Gale realized in that moment, she had personally not been doing much of. That, she figured, would possibly need to change.

Trying to stifle down the guilt, the lavender-marked wolf quietly listened, only smirking a little more noticeably when their PraeVilendis carefully pronounced her title and furrowing her brow when Anais suggested she may need time off. She could see nothing outwardly wrong with her that would require time off, but her grey-green eyes traveled quickly over to Glacier, as if to see if the big blue mountain would give anything away. He smiled, though that hardly said much, and as Anais proceeded to explain, with a candid smile given Glacier's way, Gale finally understood.

Puppies??

Her jaw went slack, her eyes wide and round, as she looked between Sunshine and Tiny, trying to gauge from their smiling expressions whether they were mirthfully sharing an inside joke or if they were simply radiating joy. No, it had to be the latter. There was no pulling off a joke like that without completely losing it. They were having puppies? Gale was stunned, floored. What did this mean for their family, that another of their elder brothers, their leaders, was getting himself a family? That the last one to try had gotten so wrapped up in his - and its losses - that they all but lost him too even though he remained among them?

She could not ruin their happy moment with her own worries, her own selfish, personal fears, so she mustered her expression into another astonished smile with a disbelieving laugh. "I can't believe it," she answered with completely honesty, "congratulations." They deserved that, she knew. It was a happy occasion, something to be celebrated - as Anais said, with a feast. "That's as good an excuse for a pack hunt as any." Gale laughed again, still not quite sure she had wrapped her mind around what she had just been told, but glad that the hunt would take soon promptly after. It gave her a distraction for now, and offered more time to think afterward.