objection!

The older woman was sharp, clearly, her old age hadn't slowed her mind any and Samara couldn't help but smile if she ever lived to be a ripe old age she hoped to retain her quick wits if nothing else. Samara chuckled softly at the question Rythmn posed, the question Samara herself couldn't yet answer, though she somehow doubted that her own confused feelings about that question would satisfy the man's own mother. No doubt she had many feelings about his various litters, about the incest that had occurred in one of them...

"To put it plainly I would not be here if not for your son. He found me in a less than comfortable position. I was born abnormally small you see, and while I am more than capable of getting around on my own and taking care of myself, me and long journeys aren't exactly close friends. My limbs cannot sustain prolonged movement, they swell and start to hurt. I usually carry a supply of herbs to handle the pain but this particular day I found myself without." She paused for a moment, wondering if the woman had expected a story from her simple question, but the truth was Samara wasn't sure she could give her a proper answer without one. "Your son found me that day and helped escort me back to Abaven, he was alpha at the time. I stayed for some time to recover and during that time he made sure to check in on me." That was a simple enough answer.

"I'm sure you've heard of your granddaughters dissaperance. I happen to have a sister in these lands who runs another pack, and I thought it might be prudent to use my connection with her to broaden the search for the girl. However shortly after I left the volcano errupted... and well you know what happened then." She wasn't close enough to Shaye or the eldrly woman before her to say much more than that, while she grieved for Rhyme and the children he'd shared with Shaye, Theory in particular, she also didn't have strong enough feelings to really share in their pain.

"On my way back to Abaven I found Rhyme, he was- frankly he was hardly functioning. I've always been a healer and I certainly couldn't leave anyone in that state, let alone the man who'd showed me such kindness." A half-truth... she may have been tempted to leave others like that, but she'd been unable to turn her back on the man... and she knew why but she'd dare not mention it. "I managed to get him aware enough to make the trek back to the packlands. Since then I've been working to try and help him recover, with help from Theory." It was simple enough, true enough even if she was omitting the feelings she'd been developing for the broken man, omitting the nagging feeling they that while she knew he couldn't requite them right now that they may never be.

WC: 501 (1309/1500)

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