Tried and True

Settling back into daily life in The Hallows wasn't as strange as she had been expecting it to be. She supposed that her years as a pack wolf never really went away. She had even begun to join back in on some of the shorter patrol routes that she had walked years ago when she was working alongside Resin. It was always bittersweet walking these halls again, but getting to see the young faces of her grandchildren and getting to see the adults that her own children had become was more than worth it. She felt like she had a good balance this time around with the den she had out in the plains with Kane. They were able to have a little space to themselves and were able to be out under the mood and stars at night while she was still able to come be in and around the castle during the day. It had been a couple of weeks since they made their move back into The Hallows and now she felt like she was fully back into a real routine again.

She had just finished eating breakfast with Kane and had done a brief loop with him around the plains before he went off to do some hunting while she came up to the castle gardens to do some stretches and some of the old routines she had learned from Sirius so long ago that it felt like a whole different lifetime. She came out to the familiar training fields and started going through the motions that Gwynevere had encouraged her to pick back up as she combated the aches and strain on her aging joints. The medicine that her daughter came up with helped tremendously, but she knew that keeping up with the exercise that her muscles had grown accustomed to was important as well. As she was moving through the poses and fighting stances that felt like second nature despite the fact that she hadn't been in a real fight in quite some time, she picked up on the fact that she was being watched. She paused in the middle of one of the transitions between one defensive stance and the next and glanced over to see who it was with a little smile already on her lips. With as many grandchildren as she had running around the castle these days there was really no way to guess. "You don't have to just watch, you know! You're welcome to join me!"

Tamsyn Carpathius of the Valley