Drooping Willows Broken, Battered and Bruised

As she searched on, keeping her distance as she trailed the stranger, downwind, she could not recognize the man as one she once knew. No longer would he hold the scent of Copper Rock Creek and having only met him once for training in the art of healing, she could not register him as a wolf she had once known. This wolf was but a bag of bones, a weak creature whom was on his way to his death bed. Though of course, Elettra had nothing against a scarred individual. Though Elettra herself had not been permanently maimed in all her battles, she too held various scarring under the lush of her black pelt. Skana was a part of her pack, an older woman riddled with scars, mainly that along her muzzle and a torn ear. However, there was strength in Skana which she did not see it this wolf. He did not look a creature whom had fought and was victorious, but a wolf whom had fought and been left for dead.
He stopped then at her boarders, settling in patience as though awaiting someone to come to him in question. And so, of course, Elettra did. Only when she was close enough to take in the features of his face would he at all become recognizable. Though his ears were torn and his lip was ripped apart still the same eyes stared back at her, a memory of the past. "Kanosak...." She breaths out his name delicately, coming around to his front to face him fully, approaching slow, should shell-stock hold the man from the obvious trauma he had endured. "Whats become of you?" Last she had been told, by Nina no less, he had left the pack lands without note. Obviously something terrible had occurred to have him leave, as opposed to just abandoning his home out right.

She was certain of this now, that this torn, battered and seemingly dying wolf was Kanosak, by the way in which he had addressed her. Certainly, the title 'Lady' had stuck with her for quite some time now, whether it be because others knew her to truly be of royal birthing or simply because the way she held herself, though none the less, he had been one of the first to offer her this nickname and so, she remembered it of him.
She listened to him as he began to explain, as the former Second of the pack went in search for the missing members whom had abandoned him. Instinctively, she did not like what she heard and her body tensed to it. Kanosak had gone off in search for the missing members of the pack and n turn abandoned the pack himself. Had he scent word and knowledge of his plans with approval of his leaders, this would have been okay, but from what she heard from Nina, it seemed as though the pack did not know where Kanosak had disappeared to. This brought a bitter memory to boil on Elettra's tongue, a memory of Borden as he had done the same himself. Apparently he had lost himself somehow and fought his sister in the aftermath, only to be taken down not only by her, but a landslide as well?
Elettra would be left to eye him critically, sizing up the situation. He began explaining himself, his abilities lost but abilities in which he still had. His limp had been obvious and he would be the second wolf to come to her stating his weak side for the hunt. There was no other reason for the loner to be at her boarders but to be accepted, to have a second chance. Elettra was accustom to offering second chances- a next start, a new home and a new reason to live within the home of Willow Ridge. She took those whom ether moved on or failed and turned them into greatness.

"I won't ask about what you and your sister fought about, for in time, I expect you to tell me on your own. After all, if what your saying is true, it is that battle and the natural disaster after that which kept you from going home, and I'd like to know it was for good reason. What is her name?" She does though ask this, curious due to the fact that there was a pack without the mountains which she knew little of. If she was going to bring in Kanosak, she wanted to know whom she would have to keep an eye out for in the long run should Kanosak's demons come banging at Willow Ridge's door. "Without telling your leaders your plans of travel and where you planned on heading, you abandoned them just as those you were searching for...." She pauses, allowing him to soak this in, stringing his already open wounds with her words so he knows the wrong before his face, even if he knew it already. She had met him before however, knew his capabilities as a Second and a healer and knew his dedication to his pack when it was there. It was these things which kept her from chasing him off her land now, but his line was thin one. "How can you prove to me certain that this will not happen to me? To us?" She speaks, as her silvery attention scans the Willows around her before landing on the scarred honey male once more.

And just like that, he fell. Fell before the salty toes of Elettra Archer, rolling on his back in both submission and perhaps, pleading... Her softened pitch ears fold back against her skull, her tail arching in the air at rigid angles towards his display of complete exposure to her. Through the pale, wild nature of her gaze, she remains still, neutral as he speaks on. It was a woman known as Naira, the former leader of the Poison pack along the tops of the mountains, hidden around the Lake. She knew only this of the pack and little to anything more, savor having scented a few wolves of the pack as well as meeting one formerly quite a time ago. If she had gone as well, whom knows what had happened to her and if she would ever return. It was perhaps a problem that Elettra would overcome later, should the time come.

"When I had met you...." She speaks, her attention still places down upon the man laid upon his back before her. "...you showed loyalty, passion and obedience to your pack. You were a prettier man..." She pauses with an upturning of her lip to a half smirk. "...but still the same man as you are now, none the less. I'll take your word and grant you acceptance into my pack, but it will be your action and dedication you showed formerly which will gain you my own, and my pack's, trust."