Ravensblood Forest the fat pelican

I do not know. I came here to find you. I wanted to talk to you. And here he was, talking to her. Kaertok let himself settle, folding his legs underneath him until he was sitting. Where I come from, Tartok, we are taught that there is one wolf out there that is pledged to you. Not a mate, although occasionally they are the same. This wolf, this aokkatti, is somebody you have a strong connection with. You pledge yourself to them, to fight alongside them whenever needed or requested. I think that you may be my aokkatti.

There was a ritual associated with it, although Kaertok believed that it didn't need to happen exactly as Tartok had taught in order for Raleska and him to become one another's. That's why I came back. Being so far away, it didn't feel right. But if you don't feel the same, then... Well, that was obvious. If she didn't feel the same way, then he had been wrong.