Same old song and dance {MEETING}
07-25-2016, 11:33 AM
That... Now that was a voice she hadn't heard in a long time. It was sheer luck that she returned when she did - otherwise, she would have been across the the continent. She hadn't expected to hear Bass' voice - much like the quiet in the rest of the pack, there was a distinct lack of a leading wolf who was there for everyone. It made her frown, which was not something the white wolf did often. Was Bass tired of leadership? Would it be better for the pack to have a new leader, or to fade away completely? She did not want that to happen, but it seemed like it would be better for the pack than the straggling they were doing now.
Unless, of course, this meeting was announcing Bass' return as a leader and as an active member of the pack. Then he could, she believed, spur the others into activity instead of this dreary dragging about that was going on. But it depended on him - all on him. No wolf wanted to follow an alpha that did... well, nothing. And by the gods did Vali hope that Bass was through with doing nothing. If he fell into the quiet, moping creature he had been for the past season, even she couldn't pledge that she would stay.
When she arrived at Bass' den, hopes rising, she took one look at the man... and they fell again. The hope that was in her eyes deepened to sadness as she stared at Bass, before she looked away, her eyes squeezing shut in pain. Of curse. He wasn't out of it. And it hurt, to see her friend like that, but he had not wanted anything to do with her, either. Was there nothing she could do? No one she could turn to for help? She swallowed hard, sighing softly as she plopped her butt down. She was the first one to arrive, but she was sure - hoping - that more would come.
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