Walk | Talk | Think
Rune had taken very little convincing to do as his sister Maia had suggested and gone to see the pack that his aunt had secured for herself. And thankfully his family had been just as quick to agree to it too. They followed close, all three children curious and watchful within his sight and his mate close by. He glanced at her occasionally, wishing he could offer her the smiles that he had started their journey out with. Truth be told, they would have still been present had his sister not pulled him aside to tell him of their brother.
He was still trying to wrap his mind around it all. Vixe was dead. He had been north this whole time, had joined Glaciem before the war with Valhalla had broken out, and somewhere during that mess he had died at the hands of a Valhallan wolf. The thought churned Rune's stomach uncomfortably and left a bitter taste in his mouth. Valhalla. He had actually been one of them for a time. Hell, for all he knew, he could have met his brother's killer and never been any wiser. It made him sick to think that he had once tried to make friends with them, that they could have shown him such hospitality while they took his brother's life.
As they were nearing on the border now, he tried to set the thoughts of his brother's murder from his mind, drawing in a steadying breath that clearly carried the border marking for the pack. He stopped short, brows drawn together, and spoke to his family. "This must be it. Covari." From the border it hardly appeared as strange as Maia had made it sound, but he supposed there was plenty still hidden from view. Family or not, how did his aunt deal with trespassers? He was in no way eager to find out. The pale grey wolf called aloud to the wolves within, his aunt in particular, hoping that she might be the one to tell his family about the pack while giving him time to catch up with her. And as he quieted he sat, turning to Alamea and finally managing to conjure up a smile for her that he hoped might assure her he had not changed his mind somewhere along the way to the pack's border.
OOC: Gonna set this before the challenge for Val, that way Aunt Vi can show. c:
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