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Harlyn felt as though her heart might burst at Luke's sentiment.  She knew well that it was the goal of many to call themselves alpha, but in truth, she felt herself rather different from them.  There were many who wanted the title for the power or for the glory.  Harlyn wanted it only for altruistic reasons - to be a role model and a teacher to her packmates, to guide and protect them, and to contribute to their future with her own perfect little babies.  It was actually quite arrogant of her to think as she did about her future leadership, but the druid certainly didn't see it that way.  It was her heart and her gods that guided her, and thus there could be no fault found in her way.


The druid felt heat rising to her cheeks when her friend brought up Mordecai.  She glanced away, embarrassed for a moment before she remembered herself and turned back to Luke with a confident power in her expression and tone.  "I don't know if what I feel for him is love, to be honest," she admitted, only the tiniest hint of guilt to be found hidden in her voice, "But he is the one that I want at my side.  I didn't realize it until I was given the life I've always wanted with someone else and found it to be.. empty and lonely.  Mordecai is... He is strong and he is kind, and... I don't know how to describe it exactly, but there's an element of his spirit that just calls to me."

She sucked in a breath for a moment, simply picturing his handsome face in her mind.  "The things that I want aren't worth having if he isn't there," she said finally, sighing almost wistfully before she turned her gaze back to Luke, "Do you think I'm crazy?"  Though Harlyn truly believed herself to have lived her entire life the way the gods had intended for her to, she couldn't help but think that perhaps in this matter at least she wasn't just being a foolish little schoolgirl with a crush on the boy who had once shared his crayons with her, hoping so desperately that he'd done so because he wanted her to notice him too.