Surrender up my heart, and swap it for yours.

@Shadow - mild PP, set directly after the claim thread. :)

Things were good. Things were truly, genuinely, too good to be true. Her life was beautiful: she had a grand home, a doting partner, a growing pack, the promise of pups. The wolves of Noctidardor would continue to thrive now that Shadow had established their territory and the borders were well on their way to bring marked.

Following their meeting and when the wolves all went their separate ways, Paarthurnax sought privacy with her ashen outrider. She followed his trail with her nose to the ground, ears up and eyes bright, keen not to loose track of him.

She slipped between the tall evergreen trunks, stepped carefully over exposed roots and strode into the forest with a low woof to announce her presence. Surely he could not have gotten so far ahead.