Redtail Rise I do what I want when I feel like it

One more post from you and archive? Or if Saena confronts him, we can keep it going :)

Annoyance and irritation flared up sharply in Arion when Saena insisted that it was him who had the problem. Was she blind? Couldn't she see that he was still the Greek of the founding of Redtail Rise? He hadn't changed; Saena had. Wait. He had forgotten his leader was still a teenager. A yearling who hadn't had much experience with the world yet. However much ambitious, courageous and brilliant Saena was, in the end, she would still fall prey to youthful idiocies. Arion should never have forgotten that. He chastised himself internally while kept his stoic countenance. "Whatever helps you sleep at night," he muttered.

Chocolate brown ears pricked when Saena began ticking things off her 'Arion has problems' list. She began by saying that he 'threatened' to leave the pack all of a sudden for mysterious reasons. He snorted at that, and a dark scowl appeared on his usually sarcastic features. Arion no longer looked like the joke loving jester - no, now something else had taken over. "I didn't threaten to leave," he said with an eerie sense of calmness. "Nor would it have been all of a sudden. If you and Reek hadn't been too busy doing other more important things, you would have noticed that something was different with my demeanor." Arion straightened himself. "I wasn't threatening to leave," he repeated. "I would have left if you hadn't come. That's not threatening to do something, is it?"

The stallion sighed and resisted the urge to start pacing. Why should he resist the urge? There was no reason to do such a thing. So he began pacing; back and forth, back and forth without regard of what Saena thought. But Arion did not say what he so desperately wanted to say in reply to her comment about 'freaking out at Reek': That motherfucker deserved every second of it. Instead, he lifted a shoulder in a shrug. "Have you ever put yourself in my paws?" he asked quietly. If she had, and still didn't understand, then that meant she didn't know him at all. And if that was his family, then shit. Ain't nothing tying him here anymore. Even his aloof older brother Krios was better than that.

She also thought he would help him with this tornado thing. At that, Arion's scowl deepened and he began pacing faster than ever, surely carving a trail in the ground. So she didn't know him as well as the chocolate warrior thought. Saena still thought that he was under her control, that he was one of her wolves. Didn't she know?! Didn't they know?! He did what he wanted to do whenever he wanted to do it. He did things only after he weighted his options He didn't blindly follow others like the normal wolf subordinates did. He wasn't one of them.

Arion didn't give a fuck if now he wasn't the Arion that she knew and respect. He wasn't going to change himself for her. Who did she think he was, hmm?! Things had gotten too far here. They were beginning to assume that he was someone he was not. Well, she better get used to this. Because he ain't changing anytime soon. "Maybe the Arion you know wasn't the Arion I am," the stallion retorted sharply, tilting his head up and glancing at the darkening sky as he did so. The storm would be coming soon.

Like hell he was going to listen to her orders. Arion was not going to figure his so called 'problem' out just because this teenager told him to. He might have done so if she hadn't pursued it in first place. But now, he decided that he purposely would not just to prove his point. The point that Saena would probably never know. "Okay," he said with a shrug, the faintest trace of his usual smirk evident on his fine features. "But for now...I have to leave. The storm's coming and I gotta go back to my den." With that, Arion dipped his head in an almost imperceptible nod, turned and began making his way in a confidently nonchalant manner towards the cave he currently stayed in, whistling softly as he moved. If wolves could walk with their paws in their pockets, Arion would have done so.