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Location: Waterfall Peak
She shuffled around in her den, restless, rolling, maybe  even a slight sound of groaning. She couldn't sleep, as was pretty normal. But she really did try. She didn't want Tyranis to worry about her or... who knew what she wanted and didn't want.

She rose to her paws, standing just outside her den for quite some time before tip-toeing to Tyranis' and gently poking her face in. "Ty..." She trailed quietly for a moment, "Will you... take a walk with me? I can't sleep..." 

Their relationship had been a little strained since she came home with the scent of Torin on her. She was only having a little fun, she didn't feel the same way for the brute that she felt about Tyranis. Maybe he understood it and maybe he didn't. But she knew where her heart would lie in the end.

The pack that the young man brought together was settling nicely. It was rather quiet around here, as it was in Abaven. But she assumed Tyranis would want to change that. He wanted to amount to things unlike any other she had seen. But she was still slightly hurt by the fact he didn't want to tell her of his intentions. It was sometimes hard to know how he was feeling, but it had been a whole different man when he was with her.

His white tipped ear flicked in her direction as she spoke, his body curled like a crescent moon on the cool floor, practically invisible on the dark stone of his den. The newly dubbed Sergeant Major had made his den in one of the smaller caverns running alongside the river flowing through the mountain. It was bigger than the den he had made for himself in Abaven; with a high ceiling and a mouth that was guarded by stalagmites.

Without a word he rose, stretching his spine by keeping his hips on the floor and raising his shoulders until they cracked. In truth he hadn’t slept since raising his pack-his dream made real- and had hardly eaten, since he and the rest of Dauntless followed him to the cascading waterfall in the frozen north. He had meant to talk to Aranea sooner, tell her every emotion that filled his heart, but when she entered the newly claimed land, stinking of another male, his heart had sunk and he had turned away from her coldly.

He stepped between the glittering pillars in the mouth of his den and walked past her before stopping and without turning uttered a single word; “Come.” And with that he resumed walking, deeper and deeper into the cave.  

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Watching the Alpha rise tiredly, she dropped her ears back and put herself in reverse as he emerged from the den. She only watched him with those pulled ears, a lonesome expression on her face as commanded her to come. She trudged on, neck low and after the boy she had grown an affection for.

They walked in silence for sometime. The girl wasn't quite sure what to say or even talk about. Her mouth may have even opened a few times but nothing came out. She just followed after him like she was on his leash.

Eventually she took a stand still, looking at him with a little more aggravation than sadness, "Ty, why can't we just talk like we used to?" She questioned him, pushing away that fact that she had come home with and intertwined smell of Torin, and little did Tyranis know that she had actually kissed to boy more than a couple times. "I just want to be us again... I want you to look at me like you did in Abaven..."

Maybe she was even overthinking it. She was being drowned in a depression, a completely new feeling she hadn't felt for the year of her life. She used to be so energized and brighten the wolves around her. And now she was feeling defeated, she couldn't even make Tyranis happy or at least not that she was noticing.

He stopped and turned his head slightly, although his eyes regarded only the glittering wall of the cave. “Abaven is far away from here” He said, sternly as if he were an adult scolding a child. For a long moment he said nothing, only stared at the wall with a fixed look of seriousness. He turned away and sat, keeping his back to her, his ears perked and alert. “What was his name?” He asked, venom dripping from his voice as he spoke.

He was hurt, hurt and overwhelmed. He thought being a leader would come naturally to him, it had been something he wanted for so long and yet it always seemed unobtainable. Now his dreams were a reality, he was a leader, and  people believed in him. And as soon as his back had turned, Aranea had gone off and found some other boy, from another pack, one who probably wasn’t a leader like him so gods only knew who he thought he was getting his stinking sand and heat scent all over his woman.  

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"Ty..." She spoke his name softly, a bit of disappointment in herself as he called her out. "It's about this?" She shook her head, turning her eyes away from him and to the floor. She fought back tears like a victorious warrior but that didn't mean her expression was holding up great.

"Torin." She said bluntly, not looking back into his eyes after what felt like an eternity though only a moment.

"Ty... Do you even know what love is?" She questioned him, a tilted chin still with that drained look, "That was not love, that was nothing." It was almost like she was a mother correcting her child... but also so much as a lover speaking truth.

She quietly took easy steps toward the giant before her, looked up at his dark emotions. She had to admit that even though she was depressed, she was glad she wasn't angry instead. But she saw something in him. She couldn't even tell what it was, she had never felt this way for another boy before. It was something more but she was blinded by the true feelings of her best friend beside her...

"Do I... need to show you, Ty?"

He froze, his heart clenching as he heard the hurt in her voice. He had done that, and although it had never concerned him before and had in fact on many occasions been his intention, but hearing it now from her made his heart clench painfully and filled him with a heavy guilt that made I hard for him to swallow or even breathe. "Do I... need to show you, Ty?" Her gentle voice asked. His head turned quickly his eyes wide and his expression one of complete vulnerability. He had been caught off guard by her question because just as much as he had wanted to be a leader he wanted to be hers, her mate, and above all, her lover. For once he didn’t look like a proud leader or a young man, wise beyond his years; He looked like a scared boy who hadn’t even fully grown into his own body. “No.” He said softly, in spite of himself and instantly regretting it. “Soon, but not now.”  His voice sounded distant, as if he couldn’t fully commit to his own laws even though he had sworn to every member of his pack that he would. He paused and turned his head downward in shame, before looking away reluctantly.“Do you…Do you love me? Really?” He asked cautiously, bracing for impact, and waiting to be hurt, unable to fully convince himself that she would say ‘yes’ but hoping desperately that she would. Speaking Thinking You

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She grew closer to him, still a gentle step in every one she took near him. When she came right before him, she lifted her chin to look up at the giant compared to her. Her eyelids halfway shut in the heat of the moment. She pushed her nose up to his and gave him a sweet lick before dropping her head and bumping it into his throat and dragging it down into his chest.

"Of course I do." And though this was unlike any feeling she had ever felt her entire life, her mind hesitated to the thought. Her voice on the other hand held no lies and no hold backs. But she couldn't help but think about not knowing the longing she held for the new Alpha. He had called her his mate at the claim, and maybe if anything she felt bad rejecting that. Of course, it gave her a great sense of glory and that had to have evened all the emotions out.

Rubbing her head against the warmth of his chest, she raised it once more to nibble at the front of his shoulder and scruff. Something that seemed to come naturally to her at the young age they were. She knew about sex, but was completely new to the fact. She never had urges and maybe she felt she wasn't even physically ready for it. She thought there was no way for her to get pregnant, so why not let it go in the moment with the boy she felt so strongly for?

She only hoped in the back of her mind that he would have it easier than her, in this time of his weakness that he seemed to only ever show her. And she hoped maybe this is what she needed to make herself feel better.

“Ar-“ his voice caught in his throat as she touched him, electricity sparking wherever her body met his and a shiver running up his spine. He knew he needed to tell her to stop, to wait until he held the Right of Matrimony, to try and upkeep his own laws when just by starting the pack he seemed to have already failed. His forepaw raised and hooked over her shoulder as she groomed him lovingly, pulling her close to him, heat slowly beginning to rise in his body. “No one can know…Not yet.” He said, his voice thick and raw. He supposed no one would know; raging hormones or not she was still young and although Aranea was certainly acting nubile he could tell she wasn’t in season. What could it hurt? No one would know as long as nothing resulted from it. His head brushed against hers and slowly he stood, his legs half bent. There was no turning back, he needed her. He needed this. -Fade- Speaking Thinking You

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She would give into him willingly, the heats of their bodies intertwined she would never forget. She would remain silent to his words, feeling no need to reject or accept them. She would just let it go, let their desires get what they wanted. It wasn't only him or only her, it was both of them. And they both needed it.

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Walking back to his den close to his side, Aranea leaned into him every few steps or so. A slight smile to her maw though probably not a big enough one as hoped for. She stopped at his throne, the jagged rocks of protection covering the entrance. She would only turn to look at him, a glitter in her eye as she wanted him to want her to stay. But she couldn't ask. No one could know after all...

She would just stand there until he said something. She didn't want to leave but she would do what he asked. That didn't mean she wouldn't go back and sulk in her own den of course.

He brushed against her, his heart drumming wildly in his chest and almost unable to keep himself from locking his limbs around her again. “Stay.” He said in a throaty whisper, both a command as her alpha and a request as her lover. He pulled away reluctantly, brushing his body against hers as much as he could before they parted entirely and he sauntered to the clear patch of ground he had chosen as his sleeping place. His golden eyes watched her intently, sparkling with a light that hadn’t been there previously. He could always change the laws regarding the rite of matremony if he wanted to; he was the Sargent Major after all, he could do as he damn well pleased, although he doubted he would need to, they were after all still young, but he could worry about that in the morning; for tonight-whatever of it was left- he only wanted Aranea. When she joined him- he knew she would- he would rest his head on her back and sleep with his nose buried deep in her soft fur, taking in her familiar scent. He would announce their marriage before he started the Moose fair; at the first meeting of Dauntless as a pack. Speaking Thinking You