Emberwood goodbye, sweet prince

the girl liked the way her name sounded in his proper tones, and loped gracefully at his side. madeleine appeared to have few reservations -- beyond her normal distrust of all other wolves -- in regards to aaron's proffered lesson, and so claudia nodded eagerly. the man's sigh did not go unnoticed, of course, and the girl listened closely as he spoke. it seemed he had been threatened by a nearby grouping of wolves if he settled here. "how selfish!" she opined -- for all her seeming maturity, the sheltered child was quite ignorant to the ways of wolf-packs, and could not know that aaron's intended claim threatened the continued existence of wildlife for all the clans in the area.

she mimicked the man as he cast about for scent, noting that her crimson guardian did the same. her father had chosen well when he set madeleine up as his daughter's protector -- upon claudia's pointed suggestion, of course. the woman was subservient but fierce, with charms that claudia did not think she herself would ever possess.