Ankyra Sound cruise

To her credit she listened as he told his story. Or rather, skimmed over his story. There was plenty more than he left unsaid but he had wanted to give her something to consider, to let her know that she was not the only one who desired independence and that Caiaphas did not seek to siphon them of it. Perhaps she would remember it one day, when (and if) she thought of leaving. Perhaps it would change her mind or maybe it wouldn't. Kjalarr didn't know but they shared some similarities the colossus and the coywolf and in rare form Kjalarr felt like sharing them. It was not often he spoke of his past...not even in the skimmed and condensed version that he'd offered Devin. Only Caiaphas really the knew the whole thing in it's truth but that was a rarer treat still.

Devin responded that her father and her siblings were too in the Wilds but then changed the tide of their conversation in a rapid fire manner by asking her own question before Kjalarr could get a chance to think of anything else that might be useful to know about a pack mate. One that brought about a look of perplexity upon the Beta's expression. She wished to know of his accent. The truth was so much more complex then he could explain: he'd dreamed about his father enough that he'd learned the lilting accent he used enough to mimic it. This made him feel closer to the man he barely remembered, one that he resembled but felt only through a spiritual connection of a shared faith and culture. It was a lasting imprint of Ragnar Loðbrok upon his son, though Kjalarr failed to realize that he, himself, carried Ragnar's legacy just as Floki did. Their father lived on within them and would continue to live on in their children and their children's children.

“I do not know,” It wasn't the truth, not really, but he shied away from speaking of his vivid dreams. They were a closely coveted secret of his, something that he cherished as much as he feared. “I just do.” But to show that he did not take it personally he shrugged his broad shoulders and offered her a grin, pausing briefly in his steps to lift his leg mark the border.