The first step

Luminosa’s words were sweet and comforting, but they were only words. Rannoch didn’t know what she could do for him in the future or provide comfort with anything more than a tiny hoof and supportive words. Still, the giant of an elk gave her a small smile. He had divulged his own history now she would give him her own.

She too was from a land far from here that was just as different as his own. A place where predator and prey called themselves family, one she was from personally. Rannoch would keep the thought of this oddity to himself and just nodded softly as she went on. His verdant green gaze widening in surprise as she mentioned her own brother being a rhinoceros.

The animals of her homeland worried about this place here and the huge population of wolves that lived here. Though there were a great many, even Rannoch could see that they lived mostly in balance with their environment. As many wolves as their were there were also deer, among other herbivorous species. Well, at least in the northern reaches where he ruled.

"I see, a noble journey.” He commented easily. "You have a year, and then what?” He asked, wondering what she had not said in the worry on her features.

"Speech"