Northstar Vale NSV CLAIM: we owe this to ourselves!

Leaving Eaglesong Forest had been the most difficult thing that Lanegan had ever done. For the past two years it had been all she'd known, her first and only home, and although most of it's inhabitants were not of her bloodline, they'd been family to her all the same. There had been nights when she'd curl up in a hollow in the snow, long for the warmth of her pack-mates, and weep with the reminder that she might not ever see her father and friends again in her lifetime.

The days had been long, the nights even more so, and Lanegan's journey had so far proven entirely miserable. She did not know where she was going or what she was hoping to find - she simply walked and walked. What she did know was that she could not regain happiness alone, but no pack had been willing to take her in. The harsh Winter forced many loners to seek refuge of an established pack, causing their ranks to overflow and resources to deplete quickly - it felt like no one anywhere had room for her. Her only hope, perhaps, was to happen across a group looking to style and establish something for themselves.

And so imagine her luck when a call came a she passed through the Teekon Wilds. Immediately she paused in her tracks and lifted her sale ears to listen, and heart was set aflutter. The ashen beauty faced the direction the voice had sounded from and, as the song began to fade, she tilted her muzzle skyward and responded - "wait for me!"

Upon her arrival, she wondered if she'd made the right decision. Before her gathered an unlikely bunch: an aging male, a blind hybrid and perhaps the ugliest wolf she'd ever seen, but mentally kicked herself for being so quick to judge. There were others present, other loners she assumed by the distance between them and the aforementioned trio, and she aimed to acknowledge each of them with a curious glance. Her frosty gaze again found those she guessed were to be the founders of this pack-to-be, and she swallowed the lump in get throat. Uncertain how wolves went ahead with pack creation and ironing out hierarchy, Lanegan felt rather out of place among the crowd