and still die of old age

@Elettra <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;"> Two weeks had passed since she had officially been taken into Willow Ridge by the beautiful Queen Elettra and not a day had gone by that she regretted it. This decision was likely her best one yet, and she hoped that it would continue to not disappoint her. How could it? This pack was run by a single woman who was strong, confident, and proud about who she was and her pack. That much had been obvious since she had arrived at the Underground Sea inside Riddle Heights. Every moment she had ever had in her past seemed very gray as opposed to the color that she saw now just by walking around her new pack territory. Sure, it was a strange transition. Although she knew that Elettra had told her that she could scout for threats, potential members and the latest gossip she also strangely felt tied to this place. If it happened to only be because of Elettra, well, then so be it. After all, she had been the only wolf that Cissa had come across just yet and while that wasn’t exactly a worry to her she figured eventually she would meet a couple others. Normally she would have been very interested in meeting the males in the pack and getting under their skin but she didn’t seem too determined; she assumed she just wasn’t up for it at the moment. Being so new and all and only knowing the Alpha—well, that made you the last wolf anyone thought about. Whether she realized it or not she liked hanging around the den but not the pack den. Somewhere along her curiosity she had come across an underground den. It didn’t look like it was made to house the loyal wolves that lived together but rather to house herbs for what Cissa guessed was for medicinal healing. Not one item looked similar to the next and nothing smelled the same, it was a nice change but part of her wondered if maybe she shouldn’t be here near things that were likely very precious to the pack caches. She didn’t want a stranger looking at her and automatically believing her to be sabotaging this. After all, she was just admiring all the work that had gone into it before she went on her way.

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Six days of hard time within the heart of the pack den, deep within it's Infirmary left the woman quite a bit irritated. Her limitations had been obvious, with deep tooth punctures in her left shoulder, teeth slashes and bruises to her forelimb on that same leg, left her with an inability to maneuver very well. Her battle did not go without consequence, though the woman was lucky enough to have accepted two new members within the ranks before her down time had occurred. She had two more women with full ability in Scouting to watch her border. One of them quite the Huntress, she had said. Their skills would be placed to the test, to be seen if all hell did not break loose in Elettra's lack of showing within her pack. Her time within the den allowed her time with her children, teaching @Skoll, @Morganna and @Asriel alike basics on herbs as Elettra applied them to herself, so that her children would know to tense their own wounds should they get into any scuffles. She would further their vocabulary and of course, tell them the story of how she had ended up to tattered as this in the first place.
The sun was high in the sky now, with partly clouded skies and quite a wind to the air. It whipped at the opening of the rock formation which made their pack den site, howling in a manner that caused the kept in Elettra eager to look out upon her home. She crawls herself out from the Infirmary and into the opening of the cave which her brethren lived, only to see it empty and lifeless, hopefully due to the fact that her members were hard at work. The toes on her left front limb brush the ground as she tests putting weight on it, wincing in doing so and does best to hop her way mainly out to the opening of the den, allowing the heat of the sun to sink along her back side. She was grateful for no broken bones, something that would have taken much longer, much more bed rest and likely to hinder her walking for life. The tearing to her fur, skin, and muscle would mend though for now the woman was left to limp pathetically around the den site as she healed. As she searched out over the terrain, she spots Narcissa in the distance, roaming mindlessly in a manner that had Elettra guessing that she was perhaps still studying to get to know the new home she had joined. For the time, Elettra merely observes the woman through the spare Willow forestry.

<b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;"> Upon entering Relic Lore she hadn’t particularly believed she would find any pack that struck her interest. None of them were packs that would suit her desires, needs and wants. At least, from what she could tell by wandering and running into strangers. However, the second that she had caught sight of the matriarch of Willow Ridge she had felt something. It was like power radiating off of her, the way that she held herself and looked at Narcissa. Even after they had begun to talk Narcissa could tell that this woman was special. Needless to say she also adored the way that the Alpha mentioned that she was stunning. If that wasn’t enough to buy her interest than she didn’t know what would be. With Elettra’s return with scratches and bruises wounding her foreleg, Narcissa paid extra attention to the border and made sure that no inch of it was left unwatched. The desire to protect this woman and this woman alone remained strong in her and although she was no medicinal miracle worker, she could protect the woman and bring her small kills when the opportunity arose. Halting, the earth-tone female reaches with one of her hind leg that scratch at the side of her stomach. After some time she begins a slow walk again with her nose planted towards the ground with the intention to continue her route memorization. Fortunately, something else catches her attention. Within a few seconds of her nose being on the ground she scented her Alpha. With her head now upwards and glancing back in the way that she had come she spots the monochromatic Alpha. Pride on her side now and confidence in her step, she walks towards her injured leader but makes no mistake. She did not hold her head above her alpha’s, held her tail down and her ears lowered in respect towards her. She deserved it, after all. <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“Elettra,” she coos quietly as her gaze remains focused near the ground but tilted upwards so as to examine her injury.

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As soon as Narcissa scented her within the area, did her head lift from the ground and her ears perk to attention, seeking out the woman who was now her Leader. At first there was a questioning within Elettra, that perhaps the woman who seemed to hold as much pride and passion as she, would not stay under a Leader so hindered and broken with the fight she had recently had, once more sending the gypsy into the world without worry or care for herself and each day that passed her by. However, whatever connection they had shared with one another had been enough to keep the earthen hued woman within Elettra's clutches, causing her not only to stay within the pack lands but watch them like a hawk and even in this, proving her words of being a well hunter true with having brought her small kills to keep Elettra well more then satisfied as she remained trapped within the confines of the den. As sadly as it sounded, as of late her very pups had been able to explore more then she!
Well satisfied with the woman's work with only having been here for a few weeks, the Archer woman was happy enough to now see her and showed so with a waving of her tail which remained low in relaxed manner at her backside. Only slightly lower does her head hang, in the same manner which Skana and Remy (when she had lived here) graced her with. It was these signs which showed powerful women within them, who were dominant and capable all too themselves but respectful and honorable to whom they chose to stand with at the time being. Elettra needed not command them, demand them, to gain what she willed from them as good members of their pack. It was this potential Elettra had seen in Narcissa and so far had yet proven to be true. "Let me see those eyes..." She breaths out in a near cooed manner as it whispers from her lips. Her muzzle leans forwards towards the woman, hovering before her nape as though she was willing to touch it, though stops herself before hand and pulls back, deciding to sit where she was and rest the injured limb. "Adjusting well?" She had assumed as such, from what she had seen of her thus far, though was willing to hear Narcissa out if she had any wonders and questions of her new home.

<b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;"> Although the subordinate didn’t know the intricate details of who she had done it too, she did know that whoever she had fought with likely deserved it. Although her leader was wounded by the battle it somehow multiplied her desire to stay. Narcissa wanted to be here for her at any occasion regardless of her wandering tendencies. Hunting had become a very easy thing to bend back into, finding that there wasn’t much change from hunting for herself than for another. There were occasions where she would leave her kills elsewhere for other pack mates to find but the ones she caught were usually set out to be for Elettra. With her head lowered to respect her matriarch, she was pleased and flushed to hear her alpha command for her to raise her eyes. Within a few seconds her head raised and apple greens looked to her alpha. Those eyes of hers might have been gray but they spoke of seeing many accomplishments and held so many emotions that Cissa could not catch them all as she was too wrapped up in the presence of her to correlate any such detailed thoughts. The woman then moved her muzzle to draw close to Narcissa then pulled back—oh, how she wished to know what it was she had planned to do. The mystery of something left undone was torture. <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“My paws tend to itch for the venture beyond but it is within my will to stay under orders,” Narcissa spoke carefully and without fear. Her wandering nature was very evident from day one and she would not have stayed if she wasn’t certain that her alpha knew of her fluidity. It was first nature to want to continue to move, scouring the land for new things to explore and learn but this was one of the very reasons that she had wished to see Elettra. With her now wounded and unable to walk long distances, Narcissa knew she could pick up the reigns. <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“We spoke once about me being a scout or a hunter for this pack and if the offer is still available to me, I would like to be a scout for the Ridge,” she did not hesitate on her choice but only added on, <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“but I will step in as a hunter when necessary.”

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Narcissa's head rose and with it, Elettra's eerie paleness of a silvered gaze hold the woman's green attention, light and bright in hue, like the color of a newly developed leaf. Those eyes reminded her of spring, something which had quickly already passed, birthing the heat and rains of the summer and already the quick approach of autumn. Soon, the weather would cool and Elettra would take to it with a childlike happiness as she romped through the snowy landscape. Though she was a healer and herbs during the spring kept her mind business and at ease with the hunt for them, play time in Winter was something that yet still brought whatever playful nature she had left in her to life.
A small smile touches the corners of the woman's grey mug, listening to the woman before her and her will to stay. In many ways yet still, the woman before her reminded her of herself. Powerful, dominant, demanding for respect and attention. Everything which was fitting for being a Leader. Though this did not mean Narcissa was unable to listen to commands and be under a Leader herself. Elettra's time as Jaysyek's Second was a fond one for Elettra. Though she came to not trust the members who had formerly abandoned them, unwilling to accept them twice around, Elettra had lawfully stood by the side of her Leading female, protecting her, her children, and her Leadership with an iron paw until the day she decided to Lead for herself. Elettra saw this already within Narcissa, as well as the same Lawful nature she held even still with her eagerness to explore, for knowledge, to know the unknown.
"I admit your kills for the pack have done us quite well. While most of us are able to feed for ourselves, our only wolf officially tasked to the job has recently ventured off..." Where Tempest had roamed too, Elettra was uncertain and was meaning to meet up with Guiness to see if the brother of her missing member might have any ideas to where she had gone. Of course, the pack still was doing well with food supply, but with Skana more of less unable to take part in long chases and the pups needing food but unable to hunt for themselves just yet, demand was more so needed then before. With these words, she hoped that Narcissa understood that hunting may still be part of the package from time to time at least until the three children within the pack were capable of doing some hunting on their own. "Whilst I am out of commission, your request seems fitting. If you encounter any wolf allied to a man named Shade or find the injured brute still lying about, feel free to do as you wish with them. Anyone you deem acceptable for our ranks, bring them to me." These were tasks set out for the woman who intended to be there scout. Party was already working hard on this duty, sneaking about the pack's borders, keeping her eyes and ears open along the pack land for information that might be suitable for Elettra to know. As well, it seemed, following Elettra's trail to make sure her Leader was watched over. From what it seemed as of yet, @Party was proving to be more of the "Lookout" whilst Narcissa's desire to wonder far and beyond the borders of her home, might have fitted for a new "Runner" for the pack now that Sema had gone. Though she was not of exactly small build, she was a experienced traveler, certainly capable of speaking to the pack's allies with a certain diplomacy needed to represent the pack well. As well, Narcissa was larger, more of a fighter then Party, able to more so defend herself out in the open far from pack lands, mostly if she ran into any with ill intent. Perhaps too, she would be successful in finding her daughter in her venturing, with hope to provide yet another well scout and huntress within the land.

<b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;"> Every moment that she spent with Elettra, or even within the woman’s borders, she couldn’t help but feel (for the first time since she was a young pup) a spark of happiness. This was a place where being mean wasn’t looked down upon and knowing what you wanted out of life wasn’t frowned upon. Here, she could simply do what she wanted to do and not get ridiculed for it. Sure the woman before her probably didn’t need to know about her more scandalous past but luckily the only thing that had come of it was her daughter Nikoleta. That wasn’t even a bad thing at all. Narcissa loved her daughter, more so than almost every guy that she had ever been with (there was one… but he’s the one that got away). Although her Alpha had been somewhat injured upon return the Thanos mother thought little of it besides that her leader was a true warrior. Someone to look to in times of trial and in her there was that spark that Narcissa felt in herself. To do whatever was needed of her to be on top. It seemed that even Elettra saw that strength in her to demand the respect and attention she felt she deserved. After all she had developed a cold sense of narcissism and with that, deeming that she was one of the best of the best. No one could perform her skillset better than she could. It was one of the reasons that she was so determined to assist Elettra with anything and everything that needed to be done. Most of the kills that Cissa had brought back was for the start of winter so that no one would have to worry about lack of prey in the surrounding areas. In the Salvaje Valley, where she had come from, prey had been somewhat scarce during the winter months because other packs seemed to roam just about anywhere to catch even the slightest bit of substantial food. She simply just didn’t want to see this pack feel as though hope was lost. As it would seem, her skill for hunting would not go unused—someone had wandered off which left Elettra’s desire for a hunter necessary. Quickly Narcissa was able to assume that the wolf that her leader had taken no mercy upon was a man named ‘Shade’. Any wolf that was associated with him would be delivered what they deserved, courtesy of the ashen she-wolf herself. Narcissa would waste no kindness on their sorry asses, she would do as she was told regardless of whether or not it was a life or death situation. Carefully and respectfully she moved her head forward to place a respectful lick upon the underside of the woman’s chin, <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“I will do all of which you instruct me to do.” Even if life was something she did treasure, if it meant taking care of things that Elettra needed done promptly then she would do whatever was necessary. Life or Death regardless.

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She admired the bold, she admired the daring and the powerful, all attributes which upheld the Torbine Empire where she had been born. All personality traits which the family of Archer had upheld. A number of women with the same lingering power within them had joined her ranks (Skana, Remy and Narcissa) to which Elettra favored in a manner that they may understand her actions and her judgement more then any other. Yes, Tempest, Kyrie and Narime were very kind to her, open and willing to hear her out, but they were as with her as they were with all, and Elettra's desires went deeper then simply hearing her out, but understanding her by a clear understanding of the situation in their own selves. Elettra had no shame in speaking her mind, whether kindly or cruelly. She had ever intention of striking down those who betrayed her and her pack mates, whether to the brick of death or not. None would escape her wrath where wrath was due and no questioning, judgmental look crossed the face of Narcissa in seeing her bloodied display when she had returned home from the battle. It brought about the woman much relief.
Truth to be told, the pack was seemingly turning out more and more like a gynarchy, where dominant women as herself, Narcissa and Skana stood out amongst the men and more women seemed to be joining the ranks of of recently as she had yet find any males suitable. Narcissa's approach and lick caused a wave of her tail, very quick and light, a subtle movement of the tip which brushed at her ankles in the action. For quite some time, these licks to the chin often displayed in respect and/or submission caused Elettra to tense with obvious lack of comfort. Such acts were rarely displayed to her in Torbine, where royalty was not touched. It had taken some time getting used to, much of it with practice of Narime's affections to her. However, until this moment, no ounce of acceptance was shown towards the act until now.
"How perfect." Elettra speaks on behalf of the woman's words - she was perfect. An ally at her side, a pack mate to be lucky to have and to cherish, protect and in turn, be offered the same good graces. "Lay with me?" Her question is given with a quirk of an invisible brow and her body turns, moving with a heavy limp towards the entrance of the pack's den. The opening is vast amongst the rocky formation and she turns to face the outside as she struggles to lay down properly just within. "Tell me of yourself, Narcissa. I'd like to know." Though Elettra had no intention to pry into the woman's past (never had Elettra demanded this of anyone and only knew what they had told her on their own. Her pack mates offered her the same respect, which is why little knew anything of her past) she still wanted to know of her: where she came from, how traveling was for her, what had she seen and what was her interests in life, goals, favored foods...anything and all.

this was a 1031 word post but i changed it temporarily, the big one might show up later :3 <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;"> This woman had not started in a place of power but rather a place what she consider had been familial. Everyone had looked after each other as equals, looked up to her father as the Alpha and otherwise looked lovingly upon her and her brothers. Unfortunately, cruel things had trapped itself around each of her family members only to shroud her with disbelief. Her past had been less than pretty and she had felt horrible about it. Seeing horrific things that seemed twice as horrifying because of her being at such a young age. Lilac Valley had seemed like a loving environment at first… when she was very young. All things had changed now and she took in everything regardless of how they seemed to her. Dangerous, Safe… she would do it all. Narcissa did not think of any sort of consequence or change in the fact that she went for a respectful lick upon the woman’s chin, as she felt it was necessary to display such a connection for the woman in which she loyally followed. It was not much of a surprise to be called ‘perfect’ or, rather, her willingness to behave like a puppet for Elettra. Narcissa would do whatever was necessary because she was strong and capable, able to do what it took because she was perfect in her own way. Whether it could be seen in her movements or not, she was glad to have been invited to lay with her Queen. It was an offer that could not be refused and nor would it ever be. <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“It would be an honor,” she answered with a smirk as she followed at her leaders rear and turned so that she could lay next to Elettra. The entrance was wide, others would be allowed passage in without being blocked off. Though, Narcissa was careful not to lay too far away nor too close—just the right amount of distance to where if her leader wished it she would move to whatever side was desired. Perhaps what was surprising was Elettra’s sudden desire to know more about her… no one had ever asked about her or even gotten to know her on a personal level in quite some years. <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“That depends,” Narcissa asked with a smile on her face, <b style="font-family:georgia; font-size:12px; color:#D6C7B6;">“do you want the short, quick story? Or do you want the full backstory with details?” Either way, she would give Elettra whatever story she wished to hear and then some. After all, she was the one who determined whether or not Narcissa was there to stay for a little while or stay forever. Anything she said in her backstory (or even her short story) could be the wrong thing.

(This post was last modified: Sep 02, 2013, 03:10 PM by Narcissa.)

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Narcissa accepted, just as Elettra had been hoping for, moving so that they comfortably sat with one another, yet not against one another as though a mated pair. Two prideful woman, what seemed as though both atop of their chain within the ranks, resting as the day past whilst others took to work: hunting, guarding, scout, and of course, caring for the three children within the pack that were growing far quicker then Elettra had been able to wrap her head around. Of course, though she had birthed a litter of pups before, motherhood was completely new to Elettra Archer and though she was happy her children no longer mewed at her side for everything they desired, as time passed and their independence grew, the mother was left to wonder how long she would have her children within her ranks and at her side before they too disappeared as many a wolf before them.
When Narcissa questioned it was quick and simple, causing Elettra's silken black ears to perk, her eyes shifting from the scenery of her home to her newest pack member for but a moment. "I'm a cripple, Narcissa." She speaks, matter-of-factly with a smirk upon her grey rimmed lips as she does so. "I have much time to spare and though I have no intention to pry for what you do not wish to tell, I will take all that you offer me." After all, as said before, Elettra rarely ever asked of anyone's pasts, did not bother to ask for them but would hear them out should any of her pack mates offer it to her. She wished to know her pack members, to learn of what they liked and disliked, their quirks and the same for her to them. Still, each member was offered a clean slate within her pack when they arrived. There was a few whom had run off from not so well situations and if only with an sureness that they would not bring war down upon Willow Ridge, they were free to enter without question. Even Kasai, within her ranks, was truly a man named Hotei Tainn, a member to a very known family within Relic Lore and yet came here with a new name and a new start, much as the woman who was settled at her side now.