Grezig had been stupid today, not paying much attention to the rain on the wind, so she found herself back in the Emberwood as it began to come down. She should have been back at the mountain with the others by now, but the rain was coming down harder by the second and so she turned back towards the forest to find shelter instead. She sighed internally, hoping the others paid no mind to her absence. She would return to them soon.
The rain washed away the scent of another nearby, so she did not notice the male until she realized that he was standing beneath the same outcrop she had been hoping to use for shelter. “Can we share?” she asked loudly, over the sound of the rain.
Here’s a short post cos I really wanted to thread with this dude.
His brows raise at the tone of her response. She asks for clarification but barrels on with an explanation before he has time to think. To say the least, he is ... less than impressed. The inky black line of his lips flatten, and a simple No,
is the only response that it seemed the strange woman would be able to purloin from the shadowed stranger.
He crosses one thin foreleg over another, and his tail swishes behind him like an agitated cat as he surveys her from the peripheral of one toxic yellow eye. Far from here. A mountain's edge, on the cusp of the ocean.
He, too, was a man of actions. Perhaps it had been a mistake to engage her in conversation, although most of his company did not react this way. The lovely women he had spent time with in the Wilds had altered his perspective. It would likely not be a mistake he made again.
But ah, predictably, there is some kind of response. "I kill things," he teases. A large burst of thunder rips the air and rolls on and on before he is able to clarify. "There is no time for fun when survival is the end goal."
He confirmed that he did not have a pack, and then asked if she did. She gave him another glance out of the corner of her eye, and decided to be honest, at least a bit. “Yes,” she said, though she did not tell him where they were located. “We are… a pack in the making.” She paused. “We are looking for members, but need to know what sorts of skills one possesses before letting others in.” This was true of all packs.
She had not invited him into the pack, not really. But she had given him an invitation to ask questions, or make comments on what he was good at. Then it might be easier for her to make a decision about whether to formally invite him.
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However, the dark male did not seem interested in what she had to say, or in giving her his credentials, so to speak. He remained silent, so she said nothing more on the matter. Eventually, the rain let up enough for her to feel comfortable leaving. "Thank you for letting me share the space," she said to him, and then got up and left.