My Inauguration Had the Biggest Crowds

Valdís lingered on the southern edge of the north, mind focused purely on day-to-day survival and she was quite sick of it. Wolves weren't meant to be loners, or at least she wasn't. Maybe there were some that had trained for this sort of thing but she was getting sick of small game and picking away at scraps. Although, she grinned, she had managed to persuade a few loners to join in the profit of a joint hunt. For that she was quite pleased, even in times where her body failed her her mind managed to pick up the slack.

She had skirted the borders of various packs but was wary of joining an of them. Just as Valdís was lost in thought a call rang out, an invitation to the start of a new pack. She grinned. Well, if that wasn't fate calling then she didn't know the meaning of the word destiny. Val loped swiftly down into the battlefield, slowing a little ways in. It was possible that this was some sort of trap. It wasn't out of the question for a band of brigands to call in hopeful loners and then jump them and sell them.

As she neared she scented the air, eyes searching for any areas of cover that might hide unseen foes and then her eyes fell on the man that had made the call and she blinked for a moment as she stared at him. He was oddly, beautifully marked, with fangs that were far longer than they should have been. The fangs curved down over his lower lip and her thoughts were torn between wonder at their deformity and wondering what impressive wounds those fangs could leave if he was even able to bite appropriately.

However, her wonder could not be held by the man as she turned to the nearby woman and took a few steps back, fur standing on end. What on earth was she! She was stunningly beautiful, cloaked in the rich hues of a vibrant sea. The highlights of her fur looked like sunlight rippling through the curve of a wave. She was struck dumb for one of the first times in her life. Valdís took a deep breath and tore her eyes from the striking woman and back to the man. She subconsciously noticed the pup but paid him little heed. He didn't strike her as any sort of threat for one and her senses were already drowning in the other two oddities. Where she came from she was considered oddly marked.

"My apologies. For a moment I thought I was dreaming. Did you make the call for recruitment?" She withheld her name for the moment, just to make sure what she was seeing was actually happening and that she hadn't eaten something she shouldn't have.

"Speech"