The Heart Wants What It Wants

Artorias hummed and nodded assent to Memento's comment that teaching was easier if it was something you were passionate about. "True, true." He thought of his own children, how he had handled their lessons for fighting and navigation, and Briar... Briar had handled pretty much everything else, being the far smarter and more capable of the two of them. As he suspected, Meme was thrilled to take on a rank above the general populace of Hallowed, and happily claimed the role of Specialist. The slightly smaller woman immediately had ideas to hit the ground running as she laid bare her plans to teach crafting, naming all of the items she could manufacture. Artorias looked to Meme with wide, impressed eyes. "Well well, it seems the Hallows has just found its new head crafter!" he remarked with a bit of playful jest. "I'm sure the pups will be ecstatic to know there'll be no shortage of toys to go around now!" With the two litters growing up quick, the younglings would need plenty to teeth on as they matured.

Meme asked if there were particular things Artorias wanted her to work on for their trading partners and the Aegis put a bit of thought into it. "Wine and goods made from our surplus of alpaca wool are our major exports," he explained as he thought aloud to himself. "Briar has a corner on the wine production, though I'm sure she'll always welcome more help. If you can think of things beyond cloaks and blankets we could turn the wool into, that would be swell. Also, as a Specialist, you have free rein to all of our stores and natural resources. Take a look around, see if inspiration strikes you." Artorias trusted the wolves he placed in the roles that suited them best almost implicitly. Meme would be a better judge of what she could work on than he could ever be, so why not let her creativity take her where it wanted?

An idea did come to Artorias' mind though, and he looked back to his newest pack member again. "I am having a bit of a project commissioned for my council chambers. A map of the world built into a stone tabletop we can use to strategize and maintain track of packs as they come, move, and go. Do you think you could craft some pieces for us to use to represent each of these packs respectively?" Like a chessboard, it would be easier to plan and visualize the world if it was laid out before their eyes. Stone or metal effigies of each pack or pieces representing them could be moved about as the world shifted and changed. Would Meme be able to create something like that for him? The Aegis looked to his newest Specialist, awaiting her response.

"Artorias Carpathius"