The Sunspire the veil lifted

She 'mm-ed' softly as she listened, and focused her stare on the horizon. What he proposed was not unheard of and the reasons sounds. Together, they could be greater. Her own mother's pack had done something similar just before her birth.. so in a way, she had a degree of experience in living in packs that had once been two separate entities.

Straightforward and with the pack's best thinking at the forefront of it all, it was hard to find fault in the idea of moving her wolves somewhere new.. if they would follow. On a subconscious level, maybe she had considered it before, especially when the memory of Ferdie and the pack he'd created had weighed heavily on her. Even to this day, she'd think of him occasionally when she spent time around the Sunspire's hidden waterfall.. and it was sickening. But, even with that, she was still attached to the mountain to some degree, not that it would be difficult to uproot. Their numbers were small, they had no whelps or elderly among them, and they were a capable few. If she could rally them to a cause, it could be the beginning of something better.

She weighed her options and kept her expression mostly masked, save for a thoughtful smirk she couldn't deny. He looked quite confident, and brighter than she'd ever known him to -- a contrast to the struggling wolf looking for his pathway to the afterlife's sacred halls of not so long ago. Evidently, the mountain had done him very well and she took a sense of satisfaction from knowing this.

He was young and his honest ambition was admirable. She did not know the lengths of his experience, nor very many details of him. But, it went both ways. He did not know her exceptionally well either (few did, after all) and yet still felt they could lead together. She knew, though, that by herself, she had little to lose. If the Sunspire faded to nothingness during the winter, she'd simply return to life as a wandering wolf. Poorly timed it may be, she'd done it before.. but she wasn't looking for such an aimless life as she feared she may just disappear if it came to that. "A change of scenery could us all well," she murmured finally. "And I have been the only leader here for a while now, and it gets old. This poses the question of where to go, exactly.. Mountains are my home," she peered at him to gauge reaction while wondering if he was attached to the coast. Her preference was strong, and bound to bring limits. Only so many habitable mountains would be unclaimed.