Arrow Lake she's intimidating and brooding

the leader of the pack approaches her with a dominant posture, tail waving high over his back and blodreina's steps fall to a gradual cease, her body posture and head lowering with submission. she is not used to being approached like that — she doesn't remember heda ever having to assert her dominance so physically with her but she'd went from being respected as the pack's ( previous ) wanlida to being diaspora's new meat. pregnant new meat, that is. so, blodreina subjugates herself, with no other choice. she has to appease leadership, she has to earn her place here so she can ensure she has a home and a safe place to give birth.

the life within her womb is the motivating reason as to why she'd done any of this at all.

she invites him to come closer, realizing after a beat that it's likely what he hung back for. she appreciated him giving her the choice to give him the invitation because, just as he doesn't know her, she doesn't know him and if he wanted to he could've easy invaded her personal space by his right as leader alone. hello. she offers him in greeting, breaking the silence that had previously existed between them.