Gilded Bay ebbed and flowed

There was something appealing to the thought of sleeping wherever one found themselves at the end of a long day. Ford could not help but to imagine himself under similar circumstances, able to trek wherever he desired and rest only when he had grown tired of wandering. It was almost unfortunate that he had been destined for much more than that. It left him with a feeling of having missed out on a great opportunity and a means that would have changed his life. Ford had been burdened with the bloodline of the Cairn and the Mayfair wolves, and he was expected to do something with it. Surely, his father would have hunted him down and skinned him alive if he had ever caught wind that the young titan had squandered all the good fortune that had been passed to him.

The wolf Govinda stated that he might find a place near the bay. The skeletal warhound smiled at the thought and nodded his head. “You are welcome to,” he returned confidently – his smoky tone hung in the air for a moment as the waves pulled away from the shore. “Should you need a place to call home, you would be welcome among our kind,” the titan then added, swinging his crown around so that he could face the soft brown admirer of the ocean. There was something in his features that suggested he was not the type to simply give in to offers of that sort – that he was preordained to follow a path entirely his own.

How kind the world had been to Govinda.

Ford then realized that his goal there was not only to gather followers for his claim, but to increase its power with the aid of alliances. Though he often cursed the harsh words that had fallen from his father's lips, he knew that there was knowledge there. So, when he turned to regard the male with a careful stare one last time, he felt that it was important for him to ask. “And if you should find a claim of your own, with others who would follow you, then the wolves of Stormrift would look kindly on an alliance.” There, his brow furrowed over his mismatched gaze and he nodded his head carefully to the other.