<font style='margin-left:20px;'><b>"A pack is exactly why I've been roaming. With winter coming along, I know better than to spend it out in the open. I did that last winter and I barely scraped by."</b> But he hadn't yet found that Great Something. <b>"But as to whether or not it's a permanent home, who's to say? I haven't found the right place yet, whether to try my luck and earn a place or to claim... if I decided to be ambitious,"</b> he said with a fixed smile. His father had been one of those ambitious types and Damascus had a brother who was the same way, but he wasn't so sure he was cut entirely from that cloth. It was a lot of responsibility.</font>
<font style='margin-left:20px;'>Plus, he had taken to liking the wandering so far. <b>"Of course, if there's no water around here, then there probably won't be any packs either. At least if there are any, they're probably thinking of leaving themselves for greener pastures."</b> Damascus knew he would be doing the same too in a matter of time, if things did not improve. The land would fail without one of its key elements, and a failing land would turn into a wasteland they would all avoid. It would be such a shame for a place so exquisite and <span class='word'>antediluvian</span> in nature.</font></blockquote>