Mount Apikuni Looking like you own it

     Embry started at the notion of a familiar name: Liri. It caught him in a tangle of nostalgia that battered his eyes into widened cerulean saucers. He could hardly contain the stream of oppressing thoughts from spilling into his mind; muffling the present conversation to the point of no communication. He listened in acute silence amidst the turmoil; nodding as she spoke of how courteous Liri and this Kavik had been.

     When the barrage of questions latched upon Embry, he considered whether this was the appropriate wolf in which to address this portion of his past. He had been so young when he had first entered the Teekon Wilds - barely surpassing his twelfth month - and his ripe motives were not always well-devised. He'd even gone so far to have assumed fake lineage within the ranks of a pack out of the desperate need to join one. How was he to have known that the first stranger he'd engage with upon hostile terms would now face him once again, two years following?

     He sighed. Thoughts on packs? Where do I begin? 
     "My past, in regards to pack life, is trivial..." He coughed awkwardly, clearing his throat. "I actually can't say that I merited much luck, being the loner I was back then, but I don't believe that my view on that sort of bondage is in any way tarnished... It's simply not ethical to allow discrete experiences to absorb the entire function." He shrugged idly. Goodness, Em. Don't bore this Elixir to death.

     "Let's just say, to put it bluntly, that I was very daft. Consequently, my presence within packs have been shortlived..." He could still recall the false names he'd propogated: 'Sapphire Valentine', his poor and regretfully deceased mother, being the most prominent recollection. He smiled; amused at his own Machiavellian nerve. "It may come as a surprise, but I have actually encountered Liri before in my travels! In fact, I believe we may have engaged in combat... - cue the strained laugh - but don't worry, I have no lingering enmity. In fact, it would be rather like meeting an old friend to see her again... At least, on my part. I believe she was pregnant at the time...?" He gazed questioningly at Elixir, as if to inquire, how do they (the pups) fare?