i look forward to our partnership

Mercury gave a slow nod of understanding as she told him how long she had lived here for. Longer than he had been alive, she had been a part of his pack. The pack of his birth would have been his home for all of his life, if the volcano had not taken it away from him. And then Wren, and the Menagerie… he had been with them for such a short time, and he had been prepared to dedicate his life to it. It gave him a twitching, worried feeling about the Hallows some time. But this pack had existed for longer than he had been alive. Its foundations were deep, and strong.

“Because I can’t imagine dedicating anything less than my all to my home.” He said softly. He wasn’t prepared to get into the deeper workings of why, of need to work and protect what he dedicated himself to. That the idea of losing another home was too much for him. “I was born a Prince, so perhaps ambition is both nature and nurture for me” He explained with a wry chuckle.


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