Horizon Ridge chasing the sun · pack meeting

This is a pack meeting for all current pack members as of 1/11/14. This will also include a joining ritual in which Kisu and Pied will become mates; your character will have gotten advance notice to bring some form of gift for them. EDIT: As of 1/18, this pack meeting is open to EVERY pack member and while it is not mandatory, attendance is HIGHLY encouraged and will affect your character's rank. In light of this change, the first round will end on 1/23.

Endless moments stretched out, impossibly long, drawn thus by the slow progress of sunrise. A lone figure was seated at the zenith of Horizon Ridge, his lupine posture erect and quite still. In the earliest moments of dawn the world was still quite dark and with it the wolf's black coat seemed a thing of inky darkness all its own, some remnant of night. An enigmatic smile curved the male's dark lips; his pale blue eyes were half-closed as of one deep in meditation. It was Akhlut Kesuk-Nereides' favorite time of day, and he never missed it, spending that time in spiritual devotion and a profound appreciation for the world in which he lived and particularly for his own little corner of it.

He spent a long moment in regret that he would soon be shattering the sanctity of the hour by bringing together his pack, but he quickly rationalized that he was not disrupting so much as enhancing the beauty of sunrise by showing it to the wolves who were now his family as much as blood, and for whose health and happiness he was solely responsible. Yes, this would be a suitable introduction to the Light for those who did not know it, and those who did would revel in its glory much as he did. The symbolism of dawn-time was not lost on the male either, and it was entirely appropriate. He could linger no longer in solitude. He was no vagabond any longer; he was the Sun Prince, and it was time.

A long and low howl was whipped up into the air upon the sea breeze, drowning out the constant murmur of the sea, and carried to the wolves of Horizon Ridge a message. Jinx. Pied. Kisu. Pump. Kanti. Naga. Each would hear their own name within his tones. Come to me. We will meet the day together. The sky steadily lightened from indigo to coral tones, and the first rays of light spilled over the horizon and onto the dark face of the sea beneath the Ridge. As the sunrise illuminated the world, the unnaturally still form of a doe became visible, casting a long shadow where it lay on the ground several lengths away from the Alpha, his generous wedding gift for his Iota and Kappa.

Akhlut breathed deep the salty air and waited as, one by one, his wolves came.