The Heartwood Similar vows

Heph considered, in part the metaphor made sense but in others it slipped away from her. Perhaps love was not kind to metaphors it simply was, but she did feel as if there was something in this analogy of making greater. "Hmmm I suppose I never thought of it that way. Many rivers all flow into the sea, but the ocean is all but endless - what does the river give up?" After all the river continued to flow into the sea, once it met the sea it was no longer a river but none of the water was lost, and as the tides moved they followed the flow of the river out. The river lost neither water nor direction nor force. It gained in all.

Independence and cooperation or partnership seemed odd things to juxtapose for the grey black wolf. After all if two wolves worked together but independently did not wish to it was not cooperation but coercion. If two wolves worked together and independently wished the same then it was not a loss of independence. "Working cooperatively does not mean losing independent ability. There's only a whole if there are parts after all." Her own voice canted up, not in question but in lightness. After all she was hardly the most learned wolf of the mind, unsure in her words.

At the mention of the other wolf she tilted her head giving a nod. "I'm glad. Perhaps that will be my choice, after all I want kids one day and I'll certainly have to be more stationary for that." A light chuckle dusted her words. But perhaps not. Towhee and Phox both seemed to have children and Towhee had mentioned Phox had been there for most all of them - and yet he still seemed a traveller. If her own kids wished to see her and also to make their own way in the world away from Moontide she thought that she would be able to wander to see them, use her skills to continue to nurture the bonds of family.