Phoenix Maplewood Thinking 'bout the last time I saw you smiling

ty for starting. ^__^ Tagging Reek for thread visibility~

Ah what dramatic curiosities had sprung up in recent days. Shreya's grandson and Alpha, the kind and successful bastard called @Reek, had mated with a female other than his own pregnant mate, and in doing so had earned the wrath of the scorned. Saena had thrown him out of Phoenix Maplewood. Reek had told his grandmother all this before his departure, and she had given him a nice and non-judgemental goodbye. They would meet again. Shreya was not tempted to go with him — for as much as she liked the scraggly boy, Phoenix Maplewood was her retirement. She wasn't going to up shop and go out on the cold road with a lone wolf who didn't yet have a solid plan.

The fact that she wasn't judgemental didn't mean she approved of what Reek had done. She hadn't stated that it was weak and irresponsible of him to give in to childish temptations, because she knew he was already aware of this. Furthermore, it didn't really effect her emotionally very much. Shreya was not an emotional sort, and too aware of the bigger picture to get sucked into the albeit-valid pains of individual lovers and dreamers. Indeed, it wasn't really on her mind as she walked from the food cache with a fresh-ish leg of deer in her old jaws. And then she saw Saena.

She knew it was Saena because she knew her scent, and for some reason thought it poetically apt (i.e. the way of life) that someone so pretty should have picked her dull-faced descendent as a husband. The girl did not look well, and Shreya didn't blame her. She stood silently for a couple of seconds (though her body was automatically submissive), then, despite being very hungry herself, decided to move a few step forwards and place the deer leg before Saena. For you, Alpha, she said. You look hungry.

And other things too.