The Heartwood Similar vows

Heph hummed along easily, perhaps they would simply have to agree to disagree. The river was not the ocean but the substance was still there - the names changed but the substance of the wolf remained. "In large groups it is...easier for that to be the case." She offered, although this did not mean that in pairs of wolves it would be the same way, and in small packs she thought the good of the many was often the good of the individual. "But in partnerships the good of the great seems like it would be the good of the individual and likewise so more important wouldn't mean conflicting."

She blinked a bit, trying to recall. Like her elder sister Heph had gone through a period where she could not imagine having kids. But she had always imagined her future with them, not in the dutiful yet withdrawn and mournful way she imagined sticking with her ill-fitting natal pack, but something she looked forward to. When she had left she had left both the duty and the genuine desires behind. Mulling it over her voice drew over her own words carefully, trying to make them fit to her thoughts. "I always enjoyed spending time with kids, and wanted them. But I lived a wandering life for awhile and couldn't imagine settling down so I thought it wouldn't happen for me, but now I can imagine staying in one play for at least as long as they would need to den. What about you? Do you want a horde of little teeth biting you day and night?"