Charred Ash Draw Silent forest, loud mind

His skin felt too tight, too itchy for him to properly sleep tonight. He wasn't sure what was making him feel like it, along with everything else, was slowly closing in on him. There was things to do, duties to take care of. Yet something was eating him up from the inside.

Was it the newly acquired title? Was it because wolves were either disappearing from or leaving the pack? Whatever it was, he couldn't quite place yet it was driving him to near restlessness.

Stalking through the dark trees, brushing shoulders hard against the trees and stopping occasionally to lift his leg against them, Tenebrae soon figured a late night hunt couldn't hurt. Plus it might tired him out enough to sleep.

Hope you don't mind Draven popping in!

Draven wasn’t really sure what his role in the pack was anymore. So many things had changed so quickly and he had only been a member for a few short months. First there had been the blow up with Kerberos and Maera’s consequent exit. Him and @”Treyah” and their strangely professional relationship deal and the strange feelings he felt in the aftermath. He knew that he had been interested in her before, she was beautiful and strong and yet vulnerable and kind all at once. But, he couldn’t express that to her now. Not after what had happened the previous year after Sachiel had arrived with Neha. He would wait and see how things went.

Did the pack even know that Draven was the sire of Treyah’s coming litter? He wasn’t sure, he had been spending most of his time with the woman but he had been doing that since he arrived. He wasn’t sure whether it bothered him or not that the rest of the pack might not know.

And now, Tenebrae was their leader. The dark healer didn’t know him more than in passing and in name so he had no strong opinions either way but it was a change nonetheless. Too much on his mind to sleep Draven laid awake in front of what would eventually be the healing den. For now only the entrance had been excavated, the ground had only recently warmed enough that his paws and claws could make any headway. Dark eyebrows lifted at the sound of approaching paws and the man lifted his head, waiting to see who else was awake so late at night.

of course not!

Tenebrae very nearly missed the den and its dark occupant laying at the entrance, had it not been for the fact that his scent had been mixing with Treyah’s as of late and that caught his attention. It was something he hadn’t exactly been paying close attention to but now, crossing paths with the man, the leader wondered if this was the one who knocked up his co leader. Slowing down while coming up to the den, his yellow eyes flicked over Draven as he paused some feet away, as if analysing him.

“Can’t sleep either?” It was abrupt and short, he knew that much but right now, Tenebrae wasn’t in the mood for small talk. But figured it was polite to speak as they both seemed to have something in common right now. “Want to walk with me?” Might as well start getting to know the others in the pack, for all the time he now spent living there and this looked like a good start. Plus, it'd take his mind off things if the other accepted the offer.

Even if simply meant the two walked in silence, at least it wouldn't be quite so bad.

(This post was last modified: May 07, 2018, 08:42 AM by Dread.)

Sorry Draven is so awkward!

It was as if his thoughts alone had been enough to summon their new leader and through the darkness his barely distinguishable black form appeared. Draven thought that they would do the mutual nod and Tenebrae would continue on his way doing whatever it was that had roused him so late at night and he would be left alone with his thoughts. This was afterall how things normally were. Unless the healer was with Treyah he was mostly alone and he didn’t mind, he wasn’t in the pack to make friends and whatever else, he was there to serve the female and the pack and that was it. And now, now he would have an additional role of father; again.

Blinking in surprise Draven nodded, unsure what else to say. He couldn’t sleep that was true and not one to ignore a request from an alpha, unless it was Sahalie. Getting to his paws he fell in step beside Tenebrae, feeling awkward about the whole interaction but unsure of what else to say. Glancing sideways towards the alpha all he could think to say was, ”How has leading been?” Which he awkward about asking but couldn’t think of anything else.