Beating Heart
09-21-2013, 01:07 AM
Solaris ran his sunny eyes over her pallid form, admiring the neat proportions and symmetry of her shape. She definitely didn't have any of the issues he did. Even though many of is ancestors were perfect examples of warriors, Solaris had inherited only fragments. Big features had the potential to be threatening, yet with a scrawny trunk and lanky legs, he would never build the muscle required to spin it into something more suitable for his lineage. "Lucky you! It's impossibly difficult to look like an overgrown pup." Her joke brought another of his easy smiles to spread languidly across his muzzle. "Well in that case I suppose I'd have to go at it alone and valiantly take down the prey! And then share with the delicate maiden, of course. Unless she would be a suitable distraction, I'm sure anyone can herd prey. That would save me a lot of effort." She was easy to talk to, andhe found himselfmcomfortable. perhaps that was due in part to the almost-pep talk Renesme had given him back in the North. He didn't need to be so self conscious. What was wrong with having a friendly conversation with a female? Gender should make no difference, and he wasn't trying to impress anyone. Besides, he had to face it, Solaris Lucerius was no lady's man and never would be. Forever doomed to be a class clown, but that was okay. He was him and that should be good enough. Perhaps it had been difficult with Renesme because she seemed much more unyielding, less open. He looked off in the direction she gestured too, wondering what sort of place Valhalla might be. The way she spoke of it sounded so appealing, so quixotic. Nodding his assent, Solaris turned his gaze back to the great swath of silver across the sky. "That's right. After we moved from my homelands, we ended up in an area called Taejin in lands known as Aethelis. My parents brought our pack there, and founded a new one. My brother leads it now." The dusty chaparral was nothing like what she described, much as it was a far cry from where he had been born. But the wolves he surrounded himself with made if home, and he missed it regardless. "Ah. What I'm looking for, I guess, is a new start. I've spent my entire life so far in the company of family. I don't really know how to survive without them, I'm still learning how to be more independent. I mean, I can take care of myself. I'm a great hunter and I'm independent enough, it's just... Life is, was, easier around them, you know? There was never that fear of rejection or anything, and if I ran into trouble I had help. But I guess certain events made me see how short life is, and how your family can't always protect you from everything, sometimes they can become the issue." Squinting his eyes, Solaris was silent for a beat, before breaking the quiet with a chuckle. There he went again, unravelling as easily rotten vines in front of a stranger. "I'm sorry, I talk too much! To really answer your question, I guess I really don't know yet, specifically. I'm taking it day by day." (( sorry this took so long, it got erased twice before I got smart. )) |