Gifted Talents [Malalia]
06-28-2020, 04:55 PM
She had to hold back a snort at his expression, the distaste clear across Cairo's face. A chuckle escaped, though, as he denounced the pompous little princess. Please. "You can't kick a stone more than three feet without hitting an heir around here. Doesn't make her special." Hell, she was the daughter of an Alpha, but did you see her going around running her mouth about it? "Good on Aurielle. I can't say if Skyfire's gotten any better, on that front. We haven't interacted much." Skyfire had joined the Armada around the same time Malalia had, though she hadn't caught sight or scent of the girl as of late.
As for Sirius -- "Well, he doesn't discourage it, either, I should say. But I wouldn't be entirely surprised if he did. You can't very well have an Armada if half of your warriors are scattered around the continent, can you? But we're home often enough, I suppose." The borders were protected and the stores were full, so she couldn't say that traveling made them neglectful. Mal shrugged her shoulders, lifted her head and shifted her eyes to look towards Pach in the distance, who was chasing his own tail. She smiled lightly at his antics.
"I don't—I don't disagree with you, no. I mean, I've learned a lot just going where the wind takes me. But, in another life, I could have easily stayed with my birth pack and never really left. Not even to the next land over. And that would've been pretty normal.... I guess it's just a different way of doing things."
Cairo wasn't wrong about learning through exploring the outside world. The alternative simply hadn't struck her as being all that strange, however. Had her natal pack held together, she might not've left that patch of moorland for the rest of her life. They had been rather isolated in their oasis, with the closest packs keeping largely to themselves and too far away to cause much trouble -- ergo, no one to travel to and nowhere that was worth the trip.
Pia might've conceivably left to gather herbs, or the Alphas to negotiate with other leaders. As it was, travel for anything other than survival? It just wasn't the custom. It was another concept that was relatively new to the yearling, along with everything else, but one of the more enjoyable ones.
To that point, the place that Cai was describing sounded interesting, alluring. An ocean of mist -- what a strange idea, and a stranger place to promote wolves, she thought. Malalia tried to picture a sea of undulating clouds, but soon relented that the young man might be right. That it was something one had to experience with one's own eyes. "Can't wait to see it then," she grinned. Poor Cairo; she'd definitely hold him to that.
"And how are things at your end?"
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