Stirring Shadows [Drachen]

His suggestion was taken with an interested quirk of her brow points, encouraging further elaboration as she led the way. She was not one to disregard the voice of her people. Just as Domari’s suggestion of trading kills for a resource for the next practice raid was taken and considered – and she agreed with it – Drachen’s next words would be considered seriously, especially if they might help spread the learning of this skill further through the pack.

She smiled faintly as he studied the implements, and she demonstrated her own technique – similar to his with the coal-stick slotted between the two inner toes of her dominant paw, that being the right, but with the stick’s unburnt end grasped lightly in her incisors, giving her a little more control, even if, with prolonged use, she needed a deep massage to her neck muscles.

As he showed his readiness, she set the implement to one side and nudged examples of the script’s alphabet and runes over to him, going over them with him until he had them memorized, and then setting him to practice with drawing shapes, as she had with Caelia.

“I’ve found this to be a good way to build control of one’s paw. Not without a lot of frustration from time to time, especially when I was first drafting this all out. It gets better with practice; a lot of it.” She chuckled on the last words as she settled back with her own parchments, scratching out a line of text while keeping one eye on him to watch his progress, mulling over the ideas in her head that very much had to do with the man she was teaching.

Information was a valuable thing, whether it was to feed the plans for a raid or simply to keep tabs on the world. One Circle of Valhalla had not seen use since its previous version under her Father’s reign, with Mask being the only member, and the man had eventually gone on to make his own place in the world. But how to broach it with a wolf who hadn’t yet made the decision to be a full-time member—although he certainly didn’t seem in any rush to leave, even with the winter being over, and his time in Valhalla stretching longer.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think