keep your head UP nothing lasts forever

Irin twitched her ears, listening carefully to the male's explanation. So he belonged to this female, it seemed. "Are you happy?" The question spilled from her maw before she could think it all the way through. Was he happy with that? With belonging to another? He didn't seem upset, but Irin didn't know him particularly well. Maybe he wasn't. Maybe he was. It wasn't exactly her business, but she was curious. Domovei was an interesting wolf. "With your master, I mean." Irin clarified a moment later, cocking her head slightly as she watched Domovei's careful approach.

Only okay? A hint of amusement flickered across Irin's features as she listened. The amusement faded swiftly as he continued, explaining why he had chosen to get lost. "I wish her luck, then." Irin poke softly, frowning slightly. Pack challenges didn't make much sense to her. She had been raised in a pack that was more like a family than anything else, and it didn't make sense that a wolf could take over something like that. What would they gain from that? Was there any point to taking over a pack, only to lose every member? Wouldn't it be better for all to just build a new pack, far away from all other packs? "But you should do what feels right to you." Irin observed with a blink, "Go or stay. Do what you want to do." Okay, so she wasn't exactly the best at giving advice, but Irin figured it was worth a try. If he was a servant or slave, he probably didn't get a lot of choices in his life.

"I'm sure everything will be okay," Irin assured the male with a slight wag of her tail. It was something her mother had told her more than once. 'Everything will be all right in the end. And if it's not all right, it's not the end.' Her mother had always had such cute little phrases as that. "Eventually." The ending was tacked on with a slight sigh. She had expected to be perfectly happy once she'd left, but it was a lonely life. So maybe her mother wasn't right and her assurances were empty.