Power Trip

The meeting wasn't much of one. Blah blah blah, do your jobs, follow the leader, do what you're told. His brow raised skeptically when Cataleya began her speech by speaking to the wolves who were supposed to be the pack's equivalent of betas. The big guy he could understand, but she'd really appointed a little girl to the position? But the expression smoothed to his habitual glower quickly as the queen moved on. Again she spoke to a yearling female, and Hati's eyes closed as he resisted the urge to groan aloud. This little girl was apparently in charge of their pack's relations with the other packs, something he could see going ever so well. She moved on to another child, this one so large Hati might have thought him older except for the gangly adolescent nature of his body and the fact that his scent marked him as not sexually mature. Another yearling... how many real adults did this pack even have?

But she'd moved immediately on to him and his former opponent, now apparently partner, who was apparently named Daegmar. Hati's yellow gaze met the queen's glance unflinchingly. Blah blah blah, do your job. Yeah, he got it. If they needed to be told, did they really deserve the job at all? Wasn't so different from what he'd been expected to do as the presumptive heir growing up, except that he'd been expected to do hunting as well as fighting. That job apparently had gone to yet another little yearling female, and this time the sigh was barely suppressed. As least the job of lead healer went to an actual adult, though Hati did look askance at the big male; was he really a healer?

Questions? Yeah, why were there kids in charge of just about everything? "Got nothing," he rumbled instead, moving an evaluating gaze to his new partner. Gods was she pregnant. Good fighter, though, so he had to wonder what she'd be like once she popped the little brats out. Though, she'd probably be occupied with 'em for a while, so the bulk of the work would fall on him. Typical. Was he going to have to worry about a mate, a dad who'd be distracted by the newborn beasts too? He'd have to find that out and deal with it. And soon, before it became an issue.



speech.