Look who's back

Briar gave a little nod at Kotori's even more condensed version of things, noting that she had found someone that she liked. She felt far more for Artorias than just liking him, but she supposed it wasn't necessarily incorrect either. It just barely scratched the surface of things. She chuckled softly as he pointed out how the packs weren't close together and gave a small shrug. "He's worth the trip to me." The Hallows also wasn't that awful of a trip. It wasn't like he lived in the North or somewhere equally as far. If she cut through Ashen's lands it wasn't really that bad of a trip to get across to the Bifrost. She nodded again when he suggested that one of them would have to move. "Yes... We've already planned for that. Artorias is taking over as the alpha of The Hallows so I'll be moving there to lead it with him in the summer. Father already knows." She knew it would probably come as a surprise that dad had agreed to let her go and was encouraging this path in her life with the training he was doing to help prepare her for the new role, but without knowing how close their father and Artorias had gotten it was harder to understand.

As Kotori began to question what Artorias was like and what had gotten him hurt she smiled and glanced toward the ground in front of her bashfully. She could gush about all the things she loved about Artorias all day long, but it was a little embarrassing to say all that to her brother. In reality, the answer to his second question more or less gave an answer for the first so she might as well start there. "There's a brute that has been terrorizing his family and had attacked his sister and done some awful stuff to his mother's grave. Artorias and a bunch of the other warriors in The Hallows had been trying to find this guy for a while and the second he had a lead he went after him." Her smile faded a bit as she went on, "The fight took a bad turn and Artorias lost and of course this guy really did a number on him... He's really just lucky that his sister and a couple of his pack mates were able to find where he ended up after the brute threw him in the river." She gave a little shake of her head with a sigh, pulling a smile back onto her lips, looking back up at Kotori. "He's passionate, dedicated, loyal, protective... if maybe a bit headstrong at times."

"Briar Fatalis"