Alliance with Ebony

The queen would surprise him by giving a warm greeting rather than an unwelcome one. In turn emotion would return to his features and a friendly smile would be given along with the bow of his head. "Hello, Lady Valeriya." No sooner than he would speak to her than she would turn to the king of Solstice to introduce him. One of our finest healers? his mind would question as he had only ever thought of himself as just another healer.

When introduced to Crucifix, Max would offer him a greeting just as warm as he had given to his own Queen. "A pleasure to meet you Crucifix." He two would receive a bow of Maximous's head before he would return his blue gaze to his queen whom he was slowly gaining confidence in. He now knew that she could remain cool at the boarders with an unknown wolf, that in itself showed him that her young age did not compromise boarder meetings.

However he had not come here to judge her or condemn her. He was not and never would be her father. He was not related to her in any form aside from being a part of the pack and that Raisa had been his first friend in Ebony. He had promised the woman nothing and there for owed her nothing. He was not going to help Valeriya for Raisa but rather because he had told the girl...no scratch that. He had to start seeing her as his queen. Period. She was his queen and he had told her from the beginning that if she needed him for anything then she could seek him out and he would keep his word.

Max had known that the young woman before him probably had mixed feelings about him being there so he would verbally let her know that he was hers to command and that he had only come for her. "I did not mean to interrupt..." he would look from one royal wolf to the other and back before continuing. "I only wished to make sure my lady was safe." Now he would look directly at Valeriya and speak directly to her "If you wish for me to leave, then I will."

Still he did not think she was ready. The job had quite literally been dropped upon her shoulders with no warning only days before. She was young, but that is not what brought him to believe she was not ready. What made him think that was she couldn't even settle an argument with her sister...how in the hell would she deal with an argument with another pack. How would she react if another alpha were to disrespect her or blow up on her as Svetlana had. These were all questions he had but would not and never would voice aloud. In time he was sure they would answer themselves.