Walk | Talk | Think
Whatever he thought to expect from the girl, however he anticipated their meeting to go, he was taken completely off guard and surprised by her response. She might have seemed rather bold there upon the border, looking indignant and miffed, but the second he showed himself and her bright eyes spotted him she completely changed. The fight appeared to leave her, replaced by uncertainty and fear. Was that because of him? He certainly had not meant to intimidate her so wholly, he had only meant to enforce his boundary on Secretua to protect his family. But she was only a young girl... She hardly deserved this.
Rune's frown deepened and he nearly sighed when she answered him. Her family? She was supposed to meet her family here? Rune could not recall running into anyone when he had set up a perimeter around the Prairie. It had been a fairly quiet endeavor overall, no issues and no protests. But...he had noticed the scent. The presence had been rather prevalent all across the Prairie, like that of a group who had been stationed here for some time without the calling of a pack to back up their claim. With his family's life on the line, he had easily ignored it and gone on with his claim, encircling the area the previous residents had staked out as theirs without a thought. He had, as this young girl put it, kicked her family out.
A sudden sense of guilt nagged at him, irritable and unwanted. He had only done what he had to do to protect his family. It was not like he had take any pleasure in evicting the wolves who had come before him. He could not bring himself to apologize for that reason - it was a necessary course of action in his mind, no matter the inconvenience it placed on others - but still he averted his pale gaze as the girl asked her final question, wishing he at least had that much he could offer her since giving her her family's home back was not an option. "I don't," he answered, his tone softer and apologetic. Could he honestly send her on her way without knowing where her family had moved, or if they might come back looking for her? "Do you think they would go far?" Rune was not sure what exactly he could do for her, but turning her away seemed far too cold, even for him. Perhaps there was yet something he could do to amend the predicament he had left her family in.
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