Make yourself useful

Once their traveling was done it was easier for Keelin to do what she did best—put her head down and do her work while trying to make herself as useful and tempting to Merrick as possible so that he would have reasons to keep her around. They were given a spacious cave in the mountain range with the other pack members and she had set to work cleaning it up and arranging it to suit Merrick's tastes. In this case it didn't particularly matter what her opinion on how their home should be kept or set up. The name of the game had always been keeping Merrick as happy as possible so that her usefulness to him remained high.

She didn't go far from the den and kept to herself to avoid interacting with any of the other pack members for the most part. Sometimes it was unavoidable when she went to collect food from the pack's stores or to go down to the lake to collect water, but if she was forced to speak with them she kept her interactions short and polite. It wasn't even that she didn't want to get to know this pack better or find out more about Merrick's family, she just didn't want to do something that would ultimately get back to Merrick and cause him to lash out at her for some misstep or mistake. He was by far the harshest master she had ever served, but he was also the biggest and the strongest and kept her safe so she couldn't ask for much more. She did also throughly enjoy the sex they had when he decided he wanted her so there was at least one perk to this arrangement.

Keelin used a bundle of dried grass like a broom to sweep out some dust that had collected on the floor of their den, the sound of the grass dragging against the stone the only sound beside her claws clicking against the stone as well. She wasn't sure where Merrick had gone off to this time, but she never really knew or asked and just waited for him to return. Once she was done with that she started fluffing and straightening their bedding. It was getting later in the day so she figured he would probably be back soon and she liked to look busy whenever he appeared... whenever that was.

"Keelin"