Party Rock Anthem [Festival]

Gryphon tilted his head to the side with a near-inaudible 'hmm' as his mother's voice rang out to call the pack - and so many other packs - together for the expected festival. He was uncertain of the wisdom of inviting so many strangers into their midst (for surely Avalon could not have known every wolf of every allied pack personally) but part of him felt like his mother might be floundering for something familiar, lost in the enormity of being an alpha of a brand new pack without any experience in the situation, and if establishing this tradition made her feel less adrift... he shrugged, still wary of so many strangers. Well, let his mom have her tradition and be happy about it, he'd just take it on himself to keep guard and protect the family regardless.

He came within site of the growing crowd of wolves in time to see a pale stranger, a male, pressing up against Avalon, and Gryphon froze in disbelief, eyes narrowing on the yellow-eyed wolf's actions and the faintest of growls barely managing to bubble over from beneath his incredulity. Seriously? Was every male in Ardent sniffing after his mother now that she was an alpha? And there was his mother rubbing right back against him.

He'd taken no more than a handful of steps closer after shaking himself from his shock when Vereux, of course, appeared at Avalon's other side to cozy up to her again, with Avalon... again... returning his gestures of affection. Gryphon made a faint sound of disgust and veered off from his initial approach, instead restlessly stalking around the limits of the crowd. He tried to keep most of his attention on watching the gathering packs for trouble, but his mind and gaze kept straying to Avalon bracketed by the two males and a silent snarl would twitch at his muzzle before he could jerk his attention back to the task at hand.

And where were his brothers? Or the supposedly-loyal pack in general, really? He spotted Dragon, but since his brother already had his attention focused elsewhere Gryphon didn't want to interrupt, and continued on his way instead. Where was Lykos? He needed someone else he could trust to be on guard against trouble, but he couldn't see his tall gray and black brother anywhere yet.

He did take a perverse sort of delight in the fact that neither the rude elderly healer woman nor her odd looking yellow mate had shown up - though it didn't really help appearances that two of his littermates hadn't come yet either. His mood soured further at the reminder that, for some reason that made no sense, the behavior of one of two of his littermates would somehow reflect on all four of them, as if they had all behaved in that manner. Odd to think that Lykos out of all of them would be one the ones he'd be worried about getting them in trouble, though. He was usually so punctual. Well, Lykos did have rather a lot to brood over, Gryphon decided magnanimously as he continued his restless patrol.