ooc: I'm in a table mood :]



It had been a surprise for Ioni? Imagine how horrified Weldering had felt. A fight that was in their favour suddenly turned against him instantly. Indru and Ruiko versus Ioni and Weldering was even but no, Ioni had to drop out of combat leaving the two brothers to tear away what little dignity he had left and send him running from Swift River. He could have safely assumed before that day however that he was more or less banished due to his friendship with Junai that Indru despised. But helping Ioni with a challenge was the final nail in his coffin, the icing on the top of his banishment cake. The black masked brute had not seen her since the meeting, he did not have the time to spot and wait for her, he had left with his life and no serious injuries and that in the heat of the moment was most important.


Only now as he wandered the lands of Relic Lore was he actually going out of his way to try to find Ioni. He had been looking for Junai and Borlla too but had been fortunate enough to bump into Borlla almost instantly. He'd barely recognized her now that she was fully grown... oh how quickly pups grew up and as he had cast his blue eyes over Ioni's youngest sister he knew that if his own daughter Riley was still alive and at his side she would have been about the same age. His brooding continued as he waded in the shallows of the pool below the Bramble Falls. Not wanting to let go on the painful memories of his lost adoptive daughter.


Power lust was not something that Weldering ever desired. He'd turned down an Alpha position once, in fact it was the reason why it had never worked out between himself and Lore, the fabled white wolf of his dreams. She was destined to be an Alphess and Weldering simply could not join her, he was young and foolish and suffering heavily from commitment issues. The second time he failed to grasp an Alpha position was when he was exiled from his last pack when he knew damn well he should have challenged the decision and taken over... not that it would have mattered seeing as the packlands had been destroyed only a month later anyway due to a natural disaster. Even as Ioni had approached him in the beginning with her plan he had never seen it as a way to gain control but rather a way to slightly get even at the Tainn boys and also because he was worried about Ioni, Junai and Borlla. He wanted to help them.


Seeing Ioni's face again was almost like a dream in itself. His muzzle having to shake a couple of times before blinking slowly. The scent she carried was not that of Swift River as she pressed her maw against his fur sending chills down his spine. It meant now he more or less had an idea that perhaps she had not made up with Indru or Ruiko just yet and just happened to be a Lone Wolf. He moved slowly toward the bank sitting himself down beside her to mirror her own actions, but still it was evident just by his expression how surprised he was to see her again. That and she seemed so calm. As for being happy to see him gain and he sarcastic observation about him being well despite the chunk of flesh missing he frowned unsure what to make of her words. "Your brothers did this. I went to Swift River, looking for you actually. Maybe I shouldn't have." he retorted, his tail curling obediantly around the side of his muscular body while averting his gaze away from the she-wolf. Certainly not wanting to return the buss she had greeted him with.