Moonspear This Is Just a Dream

Her amazement at his early rise to Beta did not go unnoted. Charon was a vain creature and he enjoyed being in the spotlights. He was proud of the things he had accomplished in his life, but they meant little without others acknowledging how great he was too. He had a good feeling about Pyx. Many wolves left, but he hoped that she would stay and become as sturdy a part of their core as Amekaze and Flóki in due time.

The words she spoke only added on to his pride and he nodded, a confident smile on his face. Then she asked after their mateship. A very forward question, but he sort of liked that. She was a shy little mouse, or seemed so at first when he'd pointed out her flaws, but she was not afraid to ask difficult questions either.

Yet it wasn't really a question with an easy answer. He considered for a moment before he answered, "I guess a part of me knew we would end up when we decided to become Alphas together, 'cause that's just how it goes, y'know? But it just sort of happened when we officially became mates. It wasn't really arranged or anything." Maybe in a way it had been because they both knew the implications of being an Alpha pair the day they agreed to be that, but still, their official mateship had taken a long time after that.