Horizon Ridge For the Heart

Not too long ago Pump herself had felt disconnected to this pack and had been wandering around, looking for answers of what made you to belong somewhere? The land she had grown fond of over time had brought her back. People - forming relationships based on friendship and loyalty and not out of purely practical reasons was a new thing for her. She had avoided becoming a friend of anyone all her life, for the sole purpose of protecting herself from unneccessary heartbreak. Love could destroy you - she had seen proof to that, when some of her family members had succumbed to the wrath of winter every year and those, who wanted to survive, had committed unspeakable acts. Pump wouldn't be standing here, had she not hardened and distanced herself, when they had been forced to feed on the carcasses of the dead packmates.

"I can't promise you that you will find, what you are looking for here," she said after another pause, her gaze focused on his face, since his gaze was averted. "We have decent wolves here, you might find friends among them, but I don't promise you that I will become your friend or that you will like me. I am not nice, I have many flaws and I put survival as the most important thing in life and only then comes everything else, therefore you might find times, when my decisions will be hard to tolerate," she decided that it was better to be honest with him from the beginning. So that he wouldn't be disappointed that much, if everything didn't work out as planned. Abandon hope all ye who enter here, after all.

"I judge people for not, where they come from or what they are or have been in the past, but what they do here and now. A worth of a person is reflected best in the way they work and contribute for the good of everyone in this pack," that was, how she was raised, how she had earned her name among many nameless wolves in her birth pack. "Therefore - do your best and you will have my utmost respect. You will always have protection, care and support. Work hard and I promise you to stand by your side in both good and bad times. That is, what I can offer. Whether that's enough or fair - is for you to decide," she finished.