Hey, nurse, can I get your number?

He kept his gaze on Syanna while she seemed to consider his words, pondering them far more deeply than he had expected. He hadn't expected it to be such a difficult decision for her, but he also had no way of knowing what was going through her head or what it was like to go from being a loner to being in a pack. He had been born in The Hallows and had been in The Hallows for his entire life. It was all he had ever known. Maybe everyone had this hard of a time when considering whether they wanted to join a pack or not and he just didn't know it. Or maybe there was more to it that she just hadn't told him about. Either way, he waited patiently for her to respond and continued to fight against his own exhaustion while she considered it, silently hoping that she would stay. He couldn't make her of course, she was way, way too headstrong to be convinced if she really had a thing against being in a pack, but he'd feel a lot better if she was here.

She did finally answer him, but not with a yes or now. Instead she gave him a bit of a compromise, agreeing to stay for a season as a trial run. He didn't understand how she could possibly not be good for their pack, but he would take what he could get. In his mind it just meant that he had a season to convince her that she should stay and that she was a good fit for them. He didn't know how he'd do that, especially not right now while he was barely staying awake, but he'd figure it out. He gave her a little lopsided grin, replying, "Sure... I'll take a season." His heavy eyelids finally drifted closed as he continued to speak, his words eventually trailing off as he slipped into sleep before he even realized it. "You're too good for our pack, I promise... You're an amazing healer, you're really smart, you're brave... And you're... I..." His breathing grew heavier with quiet snores as he slipped back into a deep sleep, his body forcing him to rest some more and continue to recuperate. His sleep was mostly dreamless, but the dreams that he did have had memories of Syanna drifting through them.

Ezra Adravendi