Wheeling Gull Isle a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied

oops.

The leviathan does not heed the call that Earthstalker sends into the air though he know the others inevitably will. Perhaps the summons is not meant to put forth dominance but it riles Axolotl just the same in a ruffle of guard hairs. It would seem he is not the only one who has come to the conclusion that making this place a stable home was the next logical step and the thought fills his mouth with something better. Like his deity that stretches out vastly and powerfully before him Axolotl’s mood darkens because despite his refusal he lives with the sinking feeling that inevitably if other wolves heeded Komodo’s call then they would look to him to lead. Axolotl refuses to show support for that, especially when he has been doing just as much to try to keep the wolves fed and as tended to as he could. He even went to the mainland to track a few herds and brought back an able bodied recruit in the flame kissed Sveijarn. Normally, she is close to him but this day she is not and given Komodo’s summons he does not expect her to be.

Leadership is nothing the Atlanian ever truly aspired to. He knew his sacred duty to Atlan and the warrior shamans of the sea had always operated in a tier outside of the traditional ranks themselves. The elders were more revered for their knowledge but there was no hierarchy they abided to. The feeling of duty and responsibility are familiar …in some ways, but the way in which they had taken hold of him as late was not. This insurgence was far from familiar; and in the long run if the pack supported Komodo — and why would they have reason not to? — then there was nothing for him to do.

A curl of the leviathan’s lips is given as he lifts his leg and continues on his border marking because there was still land left unmarked and it gave him ample excuse to ignore the call (plus it was necessary to the whole process) while allowing him to sort through this newfound dominance and what, exactly, he intends to do with it.