How in the...?

Rainbow had went to the closest island she could think of to their old home -- for the sake of the children, for the sake of herself. The beast had kept looking over her shoulder as she fled, her heart screaming at her both to move on, to press onward and carry out her orders and also return back to Lydovne... to fight alongside Novaro and Dione for the sake of the pack. They... they could be dying. They could be dead. Her heart didn't want to accept this thought. This idea that somewhere their beautiful colored bodies lay. There was but one thing she could promise...

She would look after their children, their babus would be safe with her. Rainbow would not leave them behind as she had her own daughter. She would protect these children with her very life and essence. So when the scent of another, mingling with the salt and sea, reached her nose she would wrinkle it and go to investigate.

When she saw the man she stopped. Marked by gold, an oddity like herself. Rainbow would hesitate, mind flashing to Dione, to Novaro. She would swallow back a whine, shake her head, furrow her brow, and stalked close. She had a duty to tend to.

"Are you a pack wolf, stranger?" If he was an Imperium wolf he was an enemy... a threat to the children she swore to protect. She would chase him away if she had to. She didn't want to believe a man marked as lovely as he could be an enemy, however.