Awakening? [Najira, Open]

[Toiro]

As Najira stepped up beside him, he gave her a quick smile. He was glad of her support. Even though she had only just joined the pack, it was nice to know that he had someone on his side.

He didn’t mind loners as long as they weren’t disrespectful.
Toiro’s lips rose up into a silent snarl, and ivory fangs could be seen at the side of his mouth. It was only a warning that her attitude had displeased him – he didn’t feel the need to assert his dominance any more than that. She should know that he was the Alpha, and therefore a powerful enemy to make. If she chose to get on the wrong side of him and his pack, that was entirely her choice, as Toiro wasn’t going to try to provoke a fight.

It seemed that the female had realised her mistake, and her aggressive posture diminished.
He nodded as Zaylin and Beren told him their names, glad that they had chosen to share the information. His eyes turned expectantly towards the skinny she wolf, who dipped her head politely before telling him why she had crossed the borders unannounced.

Typical as the excuse was, he could believe it in this instance. A starving wolf such as this one would have been so intent on catching her prey that she would not have noticed anything else. He didn’t like having the markers ignored – he was sure no alpha did – but there wasn’t much he could do about it, except to confront the unknowing intruders as soon as possible.

The female suddenly froze in midsentence, and stayed like that for a short while before returning back to reality. Toiro blinked, unsure of what had just happened. The she wolf now seemed dazed and confused, and somewhat surprised by her surroundings.

His eyes widened further as she stepped in closer to him and pleaded for help. She told him that she couldn’t remember anything from the past weeks, and that she thought she was going insane. The gears in his brain were turning rapidly, but he made himself keep the same outward appearance.

“Hey there, don't worry, Vaniel” he said in a quiet calming voice. “I’m the alpha of the pack that lives here, so I can offer you a place to stay while you get better. If you’d like to?”
What? Had he just said that aloud? He didn’t want an insane wolf in his pack!
But then he remembered his own suicidal attempt. It was possible to recover from depression – he was the living example of that. And look where he was now! He never would have thought that one day he might lead a pack. Not in those dark days after Nikia’s death.
Depression didn’t explain why she couldn’t remember where she was though. He told himself that he’d ask her more about it when they were alone.


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[atrb=background,http://i42.tinypic.com/s5xov6.png] This was too much for her. There were now not one but five wolves surrounding her and one of them happened to be an alpha that was looking down at her with what seemed to be a little bit of scorn in his eyes. She knew that she had screwed up by snarling at him but it was not entirely her fault. No one really expected to be suddenly descended upon by what seemed to be others with no interest in making her feel comfortable at all. Her body language was slowing beginning to tell the tale of all of this weighing down on her brain. Her pride told her not to twist her small body into a bow but then again she was greatly outnumbered and she figured that the alpha, if he got his paws on her, would have no trouble at all in showing her who was boss. Slowly, she dropped her tail so it hung limp between her legs but the snarl still remained on her lips as her mismatched eyes darted from one wolf to the next, sixing up her chances of getting out of this mess without too much of a confrontation. The more she thought about it, the more she realized that her chances were very thin; it was obvious that the female beside the alpha had just pledged her allegiance and the other male was completely indifferent. She could not trust the emaciated female beside her either. As a returning growl came from the alpha made Zaylin shrink against the snowy ground, pinning her ears to her head. She realized her mistake then as a shiver ran along her entire body at her actions, her coat had not completely grown in for the winter months and the cold seemed to leak in through her stomach and feet. She wanted her warm climate back and the sun beating down on her spine like a calming caress. She wanted the birds to be singing and the rabbits to be plentiful instead of burrowed deep into their little holes. Most of all, she wanted to be out of here and away from the alpha that seemed to be much too perfect for his own good and the female that was much too giddy at the fact that she was now in this pack’s clutches and the male who did not seem to care in the least. And she definitely wanted away from the female who stood starving beside her, or at least she wanted her to be better and less at war with herself. Zaylin did not like it when it looked like others were going through the same sort of thing she was. Another tremble ran through her body as her brain turned inward on itself and starting picking out each and every little thing around her that seemed to be much too well organized. Her eyes looked as if they were rolling in their sockets as they darted from one place to the next without much rest of pause in between. When the other male spoke his name as Beren, she focused in on him for the briefest of moments before they started to roll again. It was when the female beside her suddenly blurted out her name to be Vaniel that Zaylin jumped out of her skin. She shied sideways at this sudden outburst and, now being a few feet away, she crouched and allowed herself to tremble once again. One of her ears pricked ever so slightly to catch all of the words and her heart began to pound as the female basically claimed that she was insane. And then, to really throw Zaylin off, the alpha invited Vaniel to join his pack, without so much as even a small hesitation. At suddenly finding herself very much alone as Vaniel crept away from her, Zaylin shivered and then crouched down lower, her eyes moving even faster as they bounced from each of the four wolves before her and back again.

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