Shade found himself very worried about Lachesis and where he was, he had seen him duck out after the claiming and he hadn’t seen or scented him since. He knew that the yearling was a loyal one, and one that would never just pick up and leave without a very good reason, so he worried that he had done something that made him leave. Shade had thought long and hard about his choices for ranks, as far as Ill and Lachesis were concerned, the other seemed to catch it right away. Ace was obvious choice to be right under him; the man deserved it, being with the family since the beginning. No, not with, he had been part of the family since the beginning. Capella was the only other female, and she too had been with the family since the beginning, and she would have been under the leader in any matter.

He found himself pacing in the territory, off away from his den so his children couldn’t see him being the nervous nelly that he was at that moment. His eyes filled with worry and almost sorrows, knowing that he probably made a wrong choice with the ranks. He knew Lachesis little, just like he knew Ill little so he had nothing to go by when he gave out the ranks. He wanted to get to know them both, encourage them to speak their mind and challenge each other if need be if they feel uncomfortable with their ranks. Anastasia had departed, in what Shade assumed to be after the missing packmate. They were a family now, and there would be peace. This reminded him so on when he use to wander off far more often than he should have when he belonged to the Ridge pack. That was the past, and this was the present. Minds should not dwell in the past.

The dawn sun shone down on his back, Lachesis had suggested this place, he was grateful for the sun. He only wished that he could talk to his packmates and get to know them. This place was their home and there shouldn't be, wouldn't be, struggled between the pack that would tear them all apart.

Shade sighed with relief as Lachesis came into sight, and it gave him confidence that Ana had talked to him. Shade had not gone after the male because there always had to be a leader in the Trail or else chaos might form, he doubted it, but there was always that sliver of a percent that it could happen. The boy submitted, and instincts from back when he was high up in the Ridge made him react to the submission with his tail raising, curling almost in dominance. "I’m just glad your back Lachesis, I got really worried and Ana assured me that it would be better if she went to find you and…" Overwhelming emotions flooded through him, the Pitch Pine wolf was safe and that was all he cared about.

Lachesis explained everything to him, and Shade understood why he had run off in such a hurry and had been gone for two days. "It’s fine, I went into my first pack after being a lone wolf since birth and had no idea what was going on, it can be quite overwhelming at first. I-I just wanted you to know that it was a very difficult decision to put Ill above you, I know little about you both, and he was a bit older than you." The chocolate man explained himself to the yearling. He saw this as an opportunity to get to know him a bit better, and then man had never been too good at confrontation, always had a stutter to him. But he recalled many wolves he had met who were amazing, but never liked talking much.

Shade felt like he needed to be assertive that the man couldn’t run off like that, but at the same time he knew the man had done what Shade himself would have done in Lachesis’ shoes, not understanding at all about why he was there. "I’m just glad your back and safe, please don’t ever run off like that again." He said, knowing that the male probably wouldn’t anyways. "While I have you, I wanted to ask you about a possible pack role that you might have interest for. Guardian, healer, fisher, scout, anything fit your interest?" He knew that it had taken him awhile for his pack role, but he liked to ask about them, and he would probably give out the roles at the pack meeting that he had, whenever that would be.

Shade felt like he needed to ask, since a lot of things took a lot of time to learn. For example if the man was a Guardian, it was a simple task, same with hunting. Scouting he would have to go on a test mission to talk to another pack or scout out a land nearby and healing would mean that he needed to go get training, probably Shade would take him to see Nina and ask if she might tutor him in some skills. That was all it took, but it was time consuming because Nina was on the other end of the Lore and she was perfectly busy with pups Shade could imagine. But perhaps Narime had a healer who could teach the male if he wanted in.

From everything that Shade had heard, he connected dots in his mind. Fishing meant hunting, hunting meant food for the cache. However, healer meant that if one of his pups, or subordinates; took on something they couldn’t handle, it could be healed. He decided in his mind that if Lachesis accepted it, he would be more important as a Healer on the contrary to being a hunter. He saw Capella as a hunter already, just off of her hunt with Shade a long while back in Spectral Woods. Then he saw Ace as a guardian, and obviously Ana didn’t need a pack role, but if he did have to give her one, it would be a teacher {as she was good with pups} or a hunter.

He himself had been a Guardian a long time round, but he saw himself as more of an advisor as the days started to wear on him. He was already half way through his life, even a little bit more than half. It almost scared him to think of it. "I think you would be excellent at both jobs, we do need a healer though as there is no doubt Karpos will get himself into trouble, probably dragging Adsila into it too. But the only place I know of with an experienced healer for you to learn from, that would be Nina, and she is all the way across the lore leading her own pack. Not to mention we’ve had our issues with each other." He said, the part about Nina almost a whisper to himself, but still said out loud to where Lach could hear him.

When Lachesis spoke of not being willing to experiment with new plants that he knew little or nothing about, Shade was sure that he was the right man for the job. A healer could experiment with plants they knew well, but if they did not know them than that made it extremely difficult, for one they could accidently poison a packmate, or something else could happen and then they would have to race against time to find a healer to help. "For your age, you are very smart Lachesis; I trust that you can manage our family well. Experimenting is good, but not with plants that you don’t know of, it makes me confident that you’ll be an excellent healer." He said, his words smooth and truthful.

All the talk of healing reminded him of the time when he and Rosealia had just fixed their issues, and Rose had said she completely screwed up, it was something that he had treasured, but she had been sick and soon recovered. He had been grateful for her recovery in both their relationship and for her overall health, but now she was gone, disappeared without a word in edgewise leaving her children, he could never learn to love again, if he did, than he hoped he found the right gal to be his and for himself to be hers. His parents had told him the words they said once, "I am his and he is mine, from this day until the end of my days.".