Always she had known this. She had known it instinctively as she was expelled from her mother's body into the cold, unforgiving environment. She had known it as she had stalked from the den for the first time. She had trained hard, and she had survived.
Now so would Ebony.
The ebony-masked regent halted within the wide cleared area of the lake region, and sent out a musical call for all the thegn, all the dreng, all those who had chosen the path of tooth and claw, to join her in fight training. There was unrest in the lands outside their pack, shifting alliances and threatening war. Olympus loomed over Ebony like a stalking mountain lion. Covari's empire building, the restless fury of the displaced Valhallans. Ebony was an island in a sea of turmoil, but that danger could boil over at any moment. They must be ready.
OOC: This is going to be a very fast thread - a deadline of three days for initial posts (due 2:00 PM on Thursday July 24st) and then once paired off three days to start the spars. If you miss a deadline there will be IC consequences. Once the spars start the defaults will apply and again there will be IC consequences for slacking off.
