All This Time

The male headed west for a few days in a last attempt to try and find Acapella. He worried about her every day, wondering if she was safe and unhurt or...or maybe the unthinkable had happened. He shook his head as he tried not to think about that, but it was hard not too. They'd become separated since the Volcano had erupted, and he hadn't seen her since nor had he been able to find any trace of her. He had wondered if maybe she tried to return to her birth pack, and decided he needed to find out before accepting he might never see her again. Of all the wolves in Boreas (excluding Avalon and her family), Acapella had come to be one of the very few wolves in his life that he truly cared about. And perhaps his feelings for her went even deeper than just care...at some point, he acknowledged that he really did love her. Or at least, he was getting to feel that way before all of this.

Frustrated and unhappy, he trekked across the basin as he made his way towards the western pack his would-have-been mate called home before he smelled something strange on the wind. Flattening his ears, he lowered himself closer to the ground and carefully stalked forward, though he didn't go very far before he heard the sounds of commotion several yards ahead. Icy gaze narrowed as he approached, catching a glimpse of tawny fur and the movement of what he knew to be a wolf. Gaze widened when he realized it was a lioness, and he watched as the pair fought. The wolf had her leg in his mouth, and as the cat turned to bat him off, Greed made his move.

Already feeling pent up anger and frustration, he had no qualms in tangling himself up in this. With a ferocious snarl, he threw himself at the lioness with everything he had, jutting his shoulder out to ram into her own while also distracting her from attacking the other male. His jaws snapped open, seeking to bite into the crook of her neck, and succeeded. As the lioness yowled in pain, she swiped a heavy paw towards his shoulder, her claws scoring a trio of lacerations into the shoulder he had provided for her.

Perhaps he wasn't thinking clearly because of his worry for Acapella, the anger and the frustration...he didn't feel the pain, nor was he really thinking about how he could come away from this seriously injured, or worse...