Second Chances (Joining thread)

@Suka I forgot to tell you before: Please keep posting order in mind. When someone else joins a thread, wherever they fall in the order is where they stay, which means you skipped Jace’s turn. The #10 post should have been Jace’s. You also skipped my turn. The #12 post should have been mine. Posting order now goes: Jace, Suka, Red. Please no more skipping turns. :) You’re new, so it’s okay if you make some mistakes. I’m just letting you know for future reference.

Red listened as Jace and Suka took up the conversation that she could not be a part of because she did not speak. She sighed inwardly, knowing that she was going to have to learn to use her voice more often if she ever wanted to be a part of anything. But the thought of doing so made her cringe. She hated talking. It was so unnatural. She shook away these thoughts. They were impeding her ability to listen.

As Suka told Jace about having had a litter of her own, the coywolf cocked her head to one side, looking her over. She seemed a little young to have had a litter before. Wolves didn’t sexually mature until around two years of age, and Suka looked to be barely that. She wondered if her pups had been healthy because of this.

Because she could not truly be part of the conversation, and because her part in being a Warden of the pack was over (as Suka had been deemed nonthreatening), she took it upon herself to sit back and think. Would she ever have a litter of her own? Probably. Instinctually, she knew that coywolves were, in fact, fertile. Many other offspring of separate species were not (like ligers, who have only ever been bred in captivity). This got her thinking about who her future mate could possibly be. There were only two males that she knew of to choose from: Jace and Ferdie. It went against instinct to choose a mate outside of the pack.

She grinned to herself. So she would be going after the Beta and/or Alpha of the pack. That was certainly ambitious. Not that finding a mate so soon really mattered all that much. She was only a yearling, and therefore not old enough to bear pups. But it was something to be kept in the back of her mind for all future encounters with the two males…