Sun Mote Copse among the trees

Sorry for the wait and also what I’m about to do. I’m dropping Heskja so Ima have her chicken out about joining a pack rn. Which I feel is something she would actually do given her background with terrible past leaders (not saying Wraen is a terrible leader).

Heskja’s entire body went rigid as the she-wolf stepped through the trees and appeared before her. ‘You called?’ the woman said, an expectant tone in her voice. 

Heskja swallowed, opened her mouth to speak, and closed it immediately. She swallowed again. Gods, why was she so nervous? She was better than this. She had left her own family pack in order to find a better home somewhere else. Well, here she was, on the verge of a better home, and she couldn’t do it. She stared awkwardly at this dark woman, her mind reeling. “I—

She swallowed again, the third time. No. No, she just couldn’t do it. She had subjected herself to other wolves’ rules for too long. And now she was going to be beneath someone else again? She just… couldn’t do that to herself. She’d rather starve or die of the cold than sit around in some stranger’s pack waiting for her chance to move up the ranks all over again. What if this woman’s pack was just as bad as her family’s had been? No. No. She shook her head.

“Forgive me,” she stammered, forcing the words from her throat. She bowed her head, turned, and fled quickly, feeling free, but ashamed.

[Exit.]