Find your comforts

Tamsyn wore a contented smile as she snuggled in beside him to listen as he began to explain how his tribe viewed their connection to everything around them, the energy that connected them, the cycle that had no beginning or end. When he tried to say how he didn't want to bore her, she quickly shook her head and smiled a bit more brightly. "You're not boring me at all. I like hearing about your beliefs and your life." She had always enjoyed seeing other perspectives on things like this or even just how others lived their lives. After rejecting everything she was taught growing up it had left her a blank slate to form her own decisions on things and adapt to the wolves she found in her life so even just hearing how he and his tribe viewed life was incredibly fascinating and enlightening.

Then he went on to explain the origin of their last names and how they didn't believe in specific groups of family by name the way that many of the wolves around here did. It was slightly more similar to how the wolves she had grown up with had done things, though they didn't have any sort of surname, just their first names distinguishing them. Her family and their pack had also been less spiritual in their reasons - instead stripping their last names away to force them to see each other as equals and not have hard lines between who could be chosen as mates. She gave an interested hum as he explained that their names simply came from where they were born - listening of a few examples of his late partner, mother, and father. Meadows, Sea, Canyon... She liked the ring of their names and nodded quietly as she continued to listen.

She grinned as he told her about the mothers that would try to get specific names for their children, giggling and smiling wider with amusement when he mentioned how their plans would sometimes backfire. She tried to imagine what it would be like to be pregnant and traveling like that... Pregnancy hadn't exactly been a pleasant experience for her, especially not since she had such a large litter with most of her pups being fairly large as well. Especially toward the end it had been about all she could do to just get in and out of their den back then. Of course she would have done it all again to have her children with her, but it was still hard to imagine traveling through mountains or caverns or fields just to get a preferred name for their pups.

She gave him a curious look when he raised his paw to his chest and announced his full name, making her blink with surprise and confusion as he listed of what seemed like the longest name of all time, following it up with "of the River" for his surname. She tried to reform the name in her mind and after a moment of struggling she chuckled, giving him a quizzical glance. "Alright, "of the River" I got. That makes sense, born by a river, got it. But what was your first name? Kaneon... Kaneaus..." She gave up after a few half hearted tries, giggling softly again, her tail wagging gently and brushing against his thigh.

Tamsyn Carpathius