A Change of Pace

Hawkeye smiled. "Yea... she was one of a kind. I am lucky to have had her as a sister." She remembered the day Pied left to be with Kisu, and she lost a piece of herself; then, she gained it back when she had returned. Pied and her had joked about having litters at the same time, but they never planned for Pied dying herself — the concern always laid with the pups' health. Hawkeye was glad that her niece and nephew had turned out healthy, though. Pied would have been happy with that.

The black female smiled once more with Thistle's descriptions of the goddesses. "Freya sounds like my kinda gal!" She exclaimed. "Err... I mean, my kind of goddess." The midnight wolf did not want to offend Thistle by making the sandy wolf think that Hawkeye was not serious. "I could get behind those beliefs," she stated honestly.

She changed the subject and asked, "How long have you and your mate been together?" She was both curious and interested in the personal aspects of Thistle's life. Hawkeye was "in your face" with some things, but she genuinely wanted to be friends with the female who had taken care of O.J.