Gimme Gimme

Chaos had followed along with his father's pace, privately grumbling to himself that his father was much too spritely for an old man and weren't old folk supposed to be slow and dignified and leave the rushing and bouncing around to their kids and grandkids? Despite his internal grumbling, Chaos kept up with his father's tipsy running about and bore a smugly crooked little grin of his own as they came to a stop at Abaven's borders. When Valentine had babbled out his deal with Shaye and Rhyme, Chaos hadn't quite understood. Slaver? What slaver? But Valen had finally gotten around to the whole sordid tale, a slaver that had come to try and track down his escaped prisoners only to be captured by mousy little Abaven when he'd been idiot enough to walk straight up to their borders and demand his property returned. And the offer, that Shaye and Rhyme would turn the slaver over to Legion to hold captive in return for three Abaven wolves in the war against the slavers, and any information they could wring out of the little rat. It seemed like a more than fair trade, frankly, and Chaos was more than happy to accept his father's trade for him.

He lounged indolently on his haunches on the border as he waited for Shaye and Rhyme, fangs glinting ivory in that smug grin he just couldn't be bothered to hide. And wasn't Abaven lucky to have one of their alphas have connections with a pack that wasn't as squeamish about slavery as they were? He wondered what they'd have done with the male if they didn't. They surely weren't going to have been able to kill him. Salve their own conscience with thinking of him as a prisoner, maybe, and let him drain off their food and their guards like the leach he likely was. Not so Chaos, who wouldn't put up with slacking and crybaby attitudes in what he considered apologetically to be a slave - though perhaps it would be more tactful not to refer to the captive that way until after he'd been handed over, lest Shaye or Rhyme back out of the deal over it. "Looks like something worthwhile is finally coming out of a wedding, eh Dad?" he asked of his impatient father with a great deal of course amusement as they waited for the other alphas to appear. Other alphas - that didn't just include he and Shaye and Rhyme. In his heart of hearts, Valentine would always be alpha of Imperium, regardless of what rank he held in Legion.