Monster Inside Me

Alpine had traveled further and further each day after joining Valhalla, well he knew he was still in need of acquaintancing himself with the members of the pack he knew also that the land itself wasn't yet familiar to him. He wanted to better understand the packs that had settled here and called these places their homes. He wanted also to get an idea of the wolves that treaded here alone.
Lost to his thoughts he allowed his paws to do his travelling as he moved upwards from the Western corners of this land to the Northern, and feeling the bite of cold despite the summer that blew down from the higher and more mountainous rangers he walked until he caught the scent of another wolf and he stopped then, raising his head to the gentle wind that blew the scent towards him.

He could scent the sweetness of youth and the tang of another pang that clung lithely to it. He wasn?t really surprised to see a pack member in the rogue lands, he himself was of that ilk and he had seen others do the same. The need to explore was a very real thing that seemed that bite stronger in the youngest generation. Alpine didn?t yet know very much on herbs, it wasn?t something he had considered or sought out before but had already been promised that he would learn it in Valhalla, but he recognized that it was herbs that the boy seemed to seek out, as Alpine trotted lightly into the others view. He didn?t try and approach but instead stopped there and rested his rump against the ground.
?I don?t mean to intrude, but what is that you?re doing? I?m not as familiar with plant life as I should be?
He spoke in easy, friendly tones, freely admitting his own fault and curiosity to the younger wolf, as Alpine watched him with a slightly tilted head.