[Iskra, alpha welcome here too]Give me a boost over heaven's gate

Iskra glanced over as a man with markings that made him look reminiscent of charred, snow-covered wood approached. He was tall and had the looks of someone important. Taking in his words she tilted her head a bit to the left, brows furrowing as she processed what he said. A bad interaction… It could be anyone, really, since she didn’t know what they were like outside of their lust for conquest. Perhaps their fascination with her and the fact that they were convinced she was a ‘spirit’ kept her from seeing the darker side though.

A response sat poised on the tip of her tongue when who should appear but Rory! Had the meeting occurred under less tense circumstances she may have carried on a bit merrier, but as it was she gave him a soft smile and tried to quickly fill him in, ”There was a challenge for the pack I’m in by some wolves I’ve bumped into several times recently. Their surname is Abraxas. It was sort of odd, since the challenger had an entire pack on his side, and they smelled like family, every last one. Anyhow, I’m running some errands here in Boreas, and one includes seeing if any packs have met these wolves before.” There, that would have to do since she’d rather like to get back to the meat of the conversation.

To the bird’s inquiry Iskra replied quickly, ”Yes, I can. I’m sure they’ll be easily recognizable. The one’s I saw at the challenge, and in a handful of one on one interactions before that, they all have some traits that tie them together. Their coats were all sorts of colors, blacks, greys, browns, whites, slate, some reddish markings. But all of them except for maybe… two? Had the same types of markings. Sort of smoky and feathery, blending out over their coats. The majority had the same feathered markings under their eyes, nearly identical to each other.” She paused in her descriptions, unsure what else to add but knowing there were more details she could add. What would be most helpful? She’d met some of them outside of the challenge, what did she recall from that? Digging deep into her own mind, clarity would not find her until Jewell spoke up again.

So it was her that had met someone bad. Iskra’s heart ached deeply, she didn’t need to know what it was to know it had to have been traumatic for Frostbite to have tried to describe it without outing Jewell as the victim at first. Taking in the description, Iskra canted her head, trying to fight around the sympathetic anger at knowing someone hurt the poor girl. ”Yeah, all of them were well above average, some absolute titans, taller than rory. The striping, was it sort of broken and mottled? Not quite real stripes, but moves across their fur that way?” Another moment of thought, before Iskra would grow even more serious and ask the girl, ”Did this wolf speak of unusual things? Like, conquest? All the one’s I’ve met tend to boast of a desire to conquer, to take over.” Yes, if the one Jewell met did that, she could be relatively certain that with these loose ties they might make a faint connection. Of course she wouldn’t be hasty, there was much to do and verify yet.

Glancing to Rory and Frostbite, she took them in, wondering what the situation was like for their pack. Could they handle someone coming to their doorstep and trying to take over? Or would they fall? ”Rory, if your pack can, I would suggest increasing patrols and keeping a look out. I’ve already met one alpha and passed a warning, and I intend to do the same to anyone else out there as I continue on my errands. I’ve struck a deal with one of the Abraxas in which I am to help him find herbs, and places they grow in return for a favor of my choosing. I think I know what I’ll use it for, but before that there’s a lot to do. What other packs are there in Boreas? I met Regulus already. If you want to send messages to other packs, I can offer to do that for you when I’m traveling around anyways.” Yes, lots to do, and a time limit surely. How long she had before more moves were made was impossible to know, so she had to work quickly. Quicker than quick, lightning fast. Where this journey was going to take her she didn’t know, but it was certainly a new and interesting challenge to keep her interest. She needn’t entertain herself with chasing animals when there was more important work to do.