A Promise Kept [Maverick]

Insomnia had suffered a great deal in her life, she had been torn away from a mate whom she loved with all of her heart, pups whom she loved with all of her soul, a home that accepted her and all of her oddities without hesitation. She had been an Arkhos wife, perhaps one of the most powerful leaders in all of Ciroc. A gorgeous, beautiful mate who was as good to her as he was large, and considering he had stood at a massive forty-two inches... she had been treated like a Queen. He had taught her of love, of war, of peace and of tranquility, he had been her rock, her heavy set stone, and she would never see him again. Pain, at least emotional, was a realm she knew far too well.

She had chosen Glaciem not for the kindness of his Chiefs or the packs loose beliefs of unity and family. She had, if she was being truthful with herself, chosen the pack of ice and snow because she was a coward. She had pushed her feelings and her remorse away and had chosen something that was the farthest possible thing from a desert that she could get. The unbearable heat to the unbearable chill. There was nothing in Glaciem that would have reminded her of Arkhein, nothing that would have reminded of her sand and blazing sun. She was a coward and she knew it damn good and well a month ago, she had finally broke down, finally let go, finally peeled that horrid scab away and let her heart bleed and she was trying to get better. To stop shutting people out, to stop forsaking anyone she came into contact with.

After a few weeks, she had remembered Maverick. The tiny youth that had so brazenly approached her, had so easily offered her his friendship and his home, it had been his adopted mother who had chased her away, lest she would bear a Seracian scent instead of Glaciem. She would have joined the pack simply by the sway of that tiny pup... but she had promised he would see her again, had promised she would not abandon him forever and she was a woman of her word. Honesty and respect were two things that defined her if nothing else ever would. A languid smile would spread across her maw. Excitement blazing in her veins as his familiar visage approached her. He had grown so much in a few scarce months.

He spoke first in a deep rumbling voice, a tone that was practiced, for vagabonds that wished to join no doubt, but almost as soon as he started he stopped and with a smile and a fast moving blur of his tail he spoke her name in stunned silence, asking what in the world she was doing here. her smile would spread into gentle peals of laughter and forgetting herself for a moment, she stepped forward. Brushing her maw against his shoulder, a friendly hello, a hug, before she stepped back. Onyx orbs glittering with excitement. "I promised I would see you again did I not? I was half afraid you would have forgotten me." Her plume brushed back and forth, excitement and laughter coloring her tones. She had missed feeling so light hearted.