Here there be dragons
Leto had somehow let herself be drawn even further north despite the rapidly dropping temperatures there that heralded the new season. The new season - her season. Autumn brought her heat cycle, making it by far Leto's least favorite season now where it had used to be one of her favorites. The leaves changing their coats to match her fiery colors had its appeal, but it didn't make up for the irritation of her yearly female issues. The cooler temperatures up here seemed to help ease the symptoms a little, made the star child feel a little less like she was burning up within her own skin, but the biggest draw was that the north was all but empty compared to the warmer lands this time of year. Less wolves meant less males dogging her heels, as if being in heat meant that she would lack the basic intelligence to realize that giving them what they wanted would mean she would be stuck dealing with birthing and raising a bunch of brats, even if she wanted to give them what they wanted, which she did not despite the heat that itched and burned in her. Even Leto with her scrappy, always-eager-for-a-fight personality grew irritable and tired of needing to constantly remind heat-crazed males that no meant no, so she retreated here where there were fewer wolves that she would have to put in the dirt for trying to mess with her. - Leto |