Fate Draws Us Together

He watched curiously as Ikigai lifted an interesting, delicate paw to pick up a small piece of meat from the basket to join him out of what he sensed was obligation, but he liked seeing her unique paws at work. As she responded to his questioning about what she spent her time doing, he could easily see how she was using the traits she was given to her advantage. A striking and beautiful woman that was smart and well spoken would obviously make a fine ambassador and it seemed she had already been putting herself to work here in Ashen with duties for the Empress, which Deimos guessed was her mother. Things like music, painting, crafting, and healing all seemed like fitting of a Princess with more delicate sensibilities like herself.

The thought crossed his mind as she spoke and revealed more about herself that she was far more fair and defenseless than any other woman he had grown up around. He had always looked for women like that as well in his hunt for a mate, thinking that he needed a physically strong woman to breed more physically strong Mendacium wolves, but he always found himself frustrated and fed up with their unwillingness to bend to him and how they would fight back if he desired something that didn’t perfectly fall in line with what they wanted from him. But Ikigai, the dutiful, poised Princess who was allowing herself to be married off seemingly willingly… She was an interesting prospect to say the least.

The attention was turned back toward him then as she asked him the same thing in return and a grin pulled at his lips. “My hobbies are a bit more physical and utilitarian in nature. Fighting, hunting… the like. I think you’ll find that’s a pretty common thing among my family.” He chuckled softly, swiping his tongue across his paw pads and claws to clean the blood from them before he took another drink of the wine he had been offered. He didn’t let the conversation linger on himself for very long. “I’ve never met someone with a passion for music before. I hope I’ll get to hear your music before too long. Do you sing, play instruments, or both?”

"Deimos Mendacium"