Ocean's Breath Plateau Amaranth pink

Heph laughed at the teasing, glad to have someone to trade words with. "A wanderer like me? I fear I'd only be around half the time - honor though it would be helping you wrangle all of us into a village." A village, she had always thought of it like a pack, but she had heard Kukutux, Aiolos, and Sakhmet speak when they visited and she remembered what Callyope had said. Perhaps a village would offer a different, better word for what they hoped t build. A part of her swelled with even the implication of Samani's trust in her and her abilities, she was loyal to them and the pack and the idea of having a position to play that kind of role in helping build it made her want to ask if she was serious. But she also knew she was an explorer, that she would itch to go and strengthen the pack by doing her best to forge alliances and trade, and she did not wish to be shown lacking as a right hand to her new leaders or her new pack.

Her head shifted, and she found herself smiling more gently, light glimmering in her eyes. "It was a joy to help build this, so thank you and Rodyn too for seeing something here and in me and all the rest of us. I didn't think I would miss having a pack again, but now...." Now Heph did not think she would give it up. Even the wolves she had not met yet she wished to get to know, and felt a kinship with them. But she was not sure how to encapsulate that all into words so her mouth quirked up and she added joking "now I'm turning into a sap." Her paws sunk evenly into the sand she was at ease despite it all. She had spent the last month at least exploring the territory and mapping it out, becoming familiar. And though a part of her that had traveled for quite awhile on her own would likely always be on guard, she felt that it was beginning to feel more like home, a safe place.