Wolf RPG

A few days rest and decent-eating in the fern glen had given her the motivation to make the last real push northward to hopefully find some semblance of something interesting. Jomyo had decided, and although she remained steeled for disappointment, she at least wanted to know where @Delight and @Queenie were these days--especially in the event that the wilds held nothing further for her after summer had come, been spent, and passed. But that was for later.. and in the meantime, the agouti Eizokusei would cruise away the hours should the roads allow.

With favorable weather overhead, Jomyo crossed the valleys to no consequence, and then skirted some forest where she tracked after some vague tellings of wolf traffic. This tactic did eventually lead her to find a claim where the woods seemed to abate, but she lingered with a watchful stare just beyond its reach out of an instinctive caution.

Not knowing what she was looking at exactly, or what to expect of the residents either, she loitered only long enough to compose herself, then tipped her head to howl and make her presence known to those within. Her note did not come with excessive vigor or neediness about it (none of this was of any demand to anyone and she fancied flying beneath the radar if she could), and instead, it almost wore a vague uncertainty as she hoped the Singing-Sunlight that she sought would hear.

She finished her note and settled down to wait with her tail curling around her lowered haunches. With that said, she simply kept a quiet watch.. and took the chance to absorb the sights and sounds. The scout had stalled in heading northward, but the views were not half bad, she noted.

It was seeing someone coming that popped her right back up to a stand, and before the small wolf came before her, she wore her most neutrally unassuming stance. She veiled it in the downward dip of her muzzle, but she was surprised to see someone smaller than her come to meet her out on their boundaries--and thinner, too. Jomyo was keeping lean to fly light for a summer of travels too, sure, but he was almost a little concerning, especially with a pronounced-enough limp like that--if it were her problem, and it wasn't, anyway: she couldn't help but brighten a bit when this was the presumed Sanctuary too. Odds were looking good this was where she intended to be.

"Hi," Jomyo returned and squared her paws, businesslike for these beginning beats. "Thanks for answering. I'm Jomyo.. a scout." Intentionally brief, though, before she trudged on. "Well, I was part of Tindómë," and he may know how vacant that was, and how she had not exactly contributed all that much to their presence upon the Vale. But all the same, it would explain why she had come all the way up here. "I came to see if this was where Delight went." Thought old habit hung on the tip of her tongue, she refrained from calling him the morwinyon as it were no longer, and peered at the petite wolf to see how he'd take this--if Delight was truly here, too.

The Eizokusei maintained her polite posture, and dipped her snout to wordlessly say likewise. The real relief followed, although she hadn't expected it to seem like such a rush of its own, and it was good to know their pups are here; good enough to prompt a soft wage of her tail. She had wondered.. what may become of that considering Queenie's thoughts on the matter, but now wasn't the time nor place, not to the face of this fresh acquaintance--one scarcely more than a stranger to her still.

It was kind of him to offer, but she wasn't in the business of stealing attentions from cubs just being nosy. "Ah, nice, but no thanks. They're probably keeping busy then," she blinked shut her pale eyes a moment, and ultimately understood. "Tell them I came by and say congrats, okay? I don't have any important reason to see them, really, just to find out that they're here is what I came about.." Jomyo detailed with her ears fanned back and outwards.

Her sights panned briefly past Alarian then, and when she had been ready to ask more about this Sanctuary place, whatever it was and about the pack in general (all looking ahead to keep her options for a winter roost varied, just in case)--she spotted Delight, and whuffed lowly about this--weirdly glad to see him. "Oh hey," she greeted, bringing about a greater rhythm to the wag of before and accepting his welcomes in turn with some of her own. In the company of his familiar sort, some of her typical edge had eased away too. "I wanted to see where you ended up," she said alongside a very relieved nod. Clearly, she had found it. "Sorry for just dropping in at random," she frowned, but even besides the apologetic words, this was how she was without real intent to change that. "How are the pups? Alarian said, what? A week old?" she quirked a brow, and glanced silently to the governor too--trying to gauge his place here, if he wanted one or not. 

When Alarian took his leave, she splayed her ears at him and nodded deeply in silent thanks. "Likewise," she answered, watching him go from then on out. As for Delight's new little oddities, Jomyo still didn't know quite what to say about that either. She did not usually stick around much for pups that tiny still. Meeting Delight and Queenie's.. she didn't know if she wanted to be ready for that yet? "Wouldn't that be strange for me to just.. come in?" she asked and glanced past him for the depths of the claim; she was no native of this place by any means, nor even remotely familiar with anything here except Delight and Queenie. "But it's good they're good, even if it has to be weird to have wolves that little to tend," she murmured, thoughtful as she peered at him at great length. "Congrats." she added finally before moving on to answer her own.

"Nothing in particular. I've been ranging.. was heading towards the valleys. I was thinking of heading south again next, but not sure to where. Or for what." But, as with all things, this was how it was. She had long since lost the cause of reuniting with a brother of hers (as intent had once been) and neither was she desperate or bored enough to go back to the homeland. The Teekon still had plenty for her to rove on. This was her guide, for now, it seemed. "Either way. What is this place? What's it like?" she wondered why here, of all things.

He was so nonchalant about it. She, squinty eyes and all, was still caught a touch off-guard by such chill when puppies were concerned. Maybe her knowledge only stemmed from stern places. She had known packs to be downright prickly about their pups, or at least guarded. Plus she knew just enough about mothers with young to know that she didn't really want to test Queenie's patience when she was the mother in question. Jomyo could not say she entirely counted on Delight's ease on the matter to be enough for the both of them. Or maybe she simply underestimated their good graces towards her, and thought too deeply into it.

But there was more to think on; he was forward with the details, neatly packaged and her ears swung merrily to catch it all. She had the bits and the pieces of this, here, and all that had concluded Tindómë's tenure in the Vale--but it felt good to have the dots connected, and a few key parts fleshed out a tad more. "I see. It's his sanctuary, then? I wasn't around much when he was there," she said, concerning the tiny governor's stay with the Vale when before full collapse had scattered them.

In the best way she could, maybe she understood a bit. "But, yeah, fair. I liked the Vale a lot but it was too easy to drift," she admitted. As  ghostly as it had been in their fleeting claim there, it had been no place for young to grow up without solid bonds all around to help support. A place literally with Sanctuary in the name seemed a lot more fitting, and it seemed this opportunity had been one he was wise to take; more and more, she did understand.. so this trip up here was definitely not without its worth--if somehow, just seeing him, knowing he and Queenie and their fresh little family were fine, was not enough to count. "That's good, though, that the pups can grow up with that," she said, punctuating with a soft tail sway. While the King Elk forest had a place in her heart too, she knew not as large as his. If this gave him those vibes, then good.

Next when she sighed, some more tension surely went with it. "I'm not planning to stick around for long right now and I don't wanna loiter much, but it's good to see you're.. good. And here. Just tell Queenie I say hey for now? And I'd meet the kids sometime, I think--when they're older? Summer will let me wander easy for a while longer still, I hope... I'm keeping options open until then." she explained, letting it go unsaid that she was making this place one of those very options if needed.

She was processing it entirely, and taking her time with the notion of how it all had panned out for Tindómë. In a way, her few attachments made it easier, but somehow it was those very few (of what she still knew how to find) that had brought her out here in the first place--maybe she couldn't kid herself. Whatever way it was, it didn't change anything in the long run; at least he was here, with Queenie and their pups, and she could keep a bit of peace with that information. Jomyo did want to believe she would come back.. for some reason, at some point. She liked the option to be able to above all.

Delight seemed to keep to the same vibe, and she appreciated that quietly. "Yeah, same." Gently she waved her tail, and gave her parting words quickly to not impose on their sanctuary any longer. It was enough for her, so she was on her way soon after.