We were young once

Akira · May 10, 2019, 02:22 PM

It is already too late to swim when the water reaches your lips.

Akira listened to platinum newcomer, a lightly dipped cant of her crown signaling her appreciation back to his greeting. She was grateful for respectful wolves.- they lasted longer and grew favor much more swift than those who disregarded hierarchy. While listening, she summed up her own mindset of how to handle this newly come-about of a pack- from the ground, up. And piece by piece.

“It is wise of you to ask, rather than to assume, Carp. I thank you for the consideration. With such, I will inform you that this pack is in need of wolves that can hold their own both in solitude, and even moreso in unity- is there anything you plan to offer Stormrift?”

The Blue Swan had intentionally chosen not to introduce herself- she would not make her name known to the externals of this Bay, just yet. She was not certain who was friend nor foe of anyone here, and would not allow herself to be targeted.

Just as her inquiry had been posed, sea depth tipped auds struck back as she heard the thrust of little pads across scrabbled grit. However, as her attention had been stuck to Carp, she had no time to avoid the snapping jaws of the pup, and little daggers lodged into tender and still healing wounds. A warning growl left her as her narrow skull swiveled a predatory face of ‘Stop. Now’ clear in her sapphiric irises. Raised lips promised a swift discipline should the babe not heed her and cease his innocent antics.

Not even bothering to take a chance, the Blue Swan extended her neck and worked it around to snap up the youth by the golden cream of scruff, and placed her in a nestle before her front limbs, naturally shielding him from a majority of the battering sea winds while being able to keep a swifter grasp-reach on him. Hopefully he would appreciate the newfound warmth and keep put, but Akira kept him in her lower peripherals, regardless.

Not all birds have been taught to fly. Some simply fall until they either learn, or perish.