i gotta have you

So it wasn't just her; the pack seemed scarce, and Rivet was able to confirm it. Unfortunately, that was all the woman was able to tell — she could give no information as to whether or not they were, in fact, the only wolves to live under Styx and Katrina — but it was enough to satisfy Jinx's curiosity. “We will just have to work extra hard,” she supposed, “so that we appear a mighty force, and not a handful and the scents of spirits.” Although maybe her companion wouldn't necessarily appreciate the belief that might was important; Jinx, being raised in a warrior pack like Shearwater Bay, believed that might was all any pack had.

“Who is your companion, then?” she wondered next, assuming a male companion, for homosexuality had never really made it into her thoughts. The Nereides back home had shared interesting intimacies, but the women there were not lesbians; Nanuq and Aktaie, for example, had always shared a special closeness, and Kaskae, Jinx, and Galateia had all been close at one point, but she supposed the Warchief of Shearwater Bay and the Siren Queen of the Nereides had forgotten all about her involvement by now. She had met Turquoise from this pack, but did not make any connection between the two, for the same reasons.