Freya Lockheart
Volrath’s Forest
Freya watched from where she sat as the small female touched her nose to the side of the brown male and walked over to the Alpha Male where he still stood in his human form, defiant and idiotic for still standing so far into forest that which she could feel stirring around her. Her silver eyes stared toward the males where he had been watching her the same as she watched him, and even though he was of a sister pack he would never have noticed out the vines near Freya coiled in anticipation. If they were not gone by the time she left them, the forest would consume them as it had the mountain pack several years before. One of her ears swivelled back, listening to the stalking of a predator behind her and she looked over her shoulder in time to see the lizard walk through the bushes, it’s tail as long as her body and even Freya feared; not for her life, but theirs. If such a creature had shown itself this early in the day then it would not be the last to find them before the ancestor wolf left that night; perhaps even away from the forest for the first time in two years. She stood suddenly, turning and diving into the bushes, vanishing for a moment though she could be heard and the yowl of a feline creature resounded before Freya stepped from the undergrowth again, carrying a three tailed panther between her jaws.
The feline was the same size as the small white female wolf she looked at across the clearing and the longer carried the carcass without a problem until she came to stand before them. She dropped it, letting the strange animal fall in front of them as a warning and a reminder before she spoke to every wolf who could hear her.
Heed my warning now. This is not the largest, nor the most dangerous of what will come to hunt you. In the Forest of Volrath, the hunter becomes the hunted. She finished her words, her gaze sweeping over the pack wolves assembled before her, finding each gaze with her own moonlight silver until she looked at the new wolf. He was not much larger than them, normal and small, a wolf who would never traverse this forest alone, though something struck her as different about him. She pushed aside the though before long and sat behind her kill, the felines blood pooling in the grass and soaking into the dirt while fresh crimson dripped from her giant maw.
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Cass ran a hand through her hair in the similar manor to that of a male and she leaned back against the bench again, reclining as if she was relaxing. She didn’t fear the area around them, in fact she could smell Damian and she was not afraid of him.
“I get jumpy when I haven’t slept in three days.” She mentioned though even as she said it she shrugged and looked sideways at him. Her eyes were a dark red, a burning crimson that found him even as she settled back with both of her hands behind her head.
“I’m looking for those hunters actually. And Damian Lee.” She tilted her head to the side as she spoke, feeling the spray from the fountain as she looked at him.
A drip of water slid down her cheek and dripped off of her jaw as she looked at him. She flashed him a smile, one with nice white teeth and pointed canine teeth. She was daring to say the least, but she didn’t look as if she really wanted to die.
“Cassiopeia River Milane. But you can just call me Cass.” She held out a hand to him, waiting to see if he would shake it anyway. She did of course; know that the pack was busy with a stray right now, though, unlike Damian, she knew better than to mess with the wolves in the forest here.
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The young woman nodded as he spoke; of course he was hungry, he was at the local diner though she didn’t say anything that could be taken the wrong way. Claudia hated offending people.
“Of course.” The high school girl lifted a hand to gesture to the chalk board not too far away that from them where a few food items were listed in colourful shades of chalk and from the dust on the end of her skirt it was clear that she had been the one to write it down earlier that morning.
“Today it’s our waffle breakfast sandwich, or cake, it really depends on what you want to call it.” Claudia smiled at him, reaching over and turning the page of the menu so show him the first item on the list.
“As well as the apple flapjack stack with choice of syrup,” she pointed toward another item on the breakfast menu she had set on the table with him.
“It’s really good with the cider and cinnamon maple syrup.” She recommended, sounding cheerful and happy like any small town girl should when talking to those who were in the same place, especially when it came to customers and people from out of town.
“How long are you planning on staying?” She was always curious when it came to new people in town, though it seemed as if there were more than usual in the last year or so and almost all of them had gone to the estate on the other side of the forest at one point or another.
“I might know your relatives actually.” She mentioned, though it was a given that she probably knew most of the people in town; she didn’t personally know everyone because of how often she was busy and in truth; the girl didn’t have many friends. She thought it would be fun to get to know someone for a change, since she hadn’t since her aunt had died from a wolf attack.
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The woman had watched her mate leave her behind, worried though she knew he would be back in time for dinner that night, so long as Freya didn’t kill him like she had another wolf seven years ago. Her black hair swung in the wind before she went back inside, closing the door on the balcony behind her as she went to wash this morning, before she really went out to do anything though as she was stepping out of the shower there was a knock on the door and she heard it open into the master bedroom that she and Damian shared.
‘Mama? There are people coming.’ Yuki heard her son call out to her and she sighed, wrapping the towel tightly around her body and walking out to see her eight year old son by the door, half dressed and half asleep. When she’d turned off the water she had heard footsteps not too far away but they weren’t close enough for her to really care what it was since it wasn’t a threat until they entered the forest. She couldn’t smell what it was that was approaching the manor though her son having heard it and not panicked must mean it was someone he knew.
“It’s probably Lucio and Draco bud. Why don’t you go get dressed and we’ll meet them on the way okay?” The boy nodded and smiled and left to go get himself dressed.
Yuki heard movement downstairs and assumed that it was one of the Queens getting up, since they had the uncanny ability to sense the approach of children and got very protective of the packs cubs. Yuki had never been fortunate enough to have that sense and turned out as one of the Huntresses before mating with the previous Alpha Male to produce her small, blonde haired son. Dressing in a soft summer dress that fell just passed her knees she walked downstairs to find Aurora’s daughter in the kitchen reading and her son chatting her ear off.
“Come on James, Sena. Let’s go meet Draco down the road.” The woman said to the two though the girl shook her head and Yuki knew that her mother had told her not to leave with the loner on the other side of StillWater. The boy on the other hand waved to his friend and grabbed his shoes before running outside with his mother following after him at a more leisurely pace.
“Stay close okay?” She called out to him and he responded with a ‘yes mama!’
It wasn’t long before they rounded the bend in the forest trail and came across Lucio, Rhea and Draco all together, the Queen obviously concerned by the scent of the loner, though the Alpha Female showed very little worry other than that for her mate because of his stubbornness. James ran up and skidded to a stop, nearly falling in the process but her managed to catch himself on Lucio’s sleeve just as he turned to leave them.
“Lucio, be careful in the Forest of Volrath. Come back as soon as you can.” She cautioned him, clearly more knowing about the problem than the rest of them since she had met the wolf they were so terrified seven years prior and hadn’t seen her since. Approaching Rhea she laughed as James tumbled over but lifted himself up without a scratch.
“Just like his father.” “Don’t worry about the loner Rhea, she’s too far away to do any damage. Hopefully Damian realizes what he’s doing before it’s too late though.”@Fumari@Arista@CallaLily
James had slept in that morning, though he had been awake most of the night patrolling or talking with members of his circle, and had a good reason to be sleeping in until nearly ten the following morning; he had only fallen into bed at four am. When he finally rolled out of bed the place was empty save for him and the small girl born of Aurora Solomon, the Beta Female who he was trying to convince to his side as well. If he could only get Yuki to either convince her mate to step down or let him challenge Damian than he could save so many wolves’ lives without having to split off as an entirely different pack. He didn’t want to tear others apart, though sometimes he felt like he didn’t have a choice in the matter and every time he wanted to do it he saw how happily his circle interacted with the other wolves of the pack and he backed down from the idea. The young man sighed and pushed his hair out of his face as her yawned his sleep away and stood, dressed in only a pair of black silk boxers when he heard the door open downstairs and one of the newer pack members walk in with food.
“Yeah, I’ll be down in a sec!” James yelled down the stairs from the room he had on the second floor, directly across from the top of the stairs and shook his head, black hair laying in a messy fuss that looked perfect and like he had just gotten out of bed. He grabbed a pair of jeans and pulled them on without anything else; he was just finishing buttoning them up when he got down the bottom of the stairs, the hardwood flooring cold against his bare feet.
“We need carpet. I’d be so much warmer on the feet in the morning.” James grumbled as he walked through the house with the confident swagger that he had always had, though it wasn’t a city boys walk. He was confident and not afraid to show that he knew what he was doing, hence his being appointed as an Enforcer by Arthur and kept by Damian. Or maybe it was just the Alpha’s way of keeping him at bay, just like their relationship with his cousin.
When he came into the kitchen it was clear that he had only just gotten up and not cared enough to put much on since his chest was bare, leaving his well-muscled torso plain to see, with the scars of a bear’s claws right across the left side of his rib cage from his journey into Volrath’s Forest.
“Hey. Rabbit? Guess we’re having stew or roast hare when the girls get home later.” James said lazily as he yawned and stretched his arms up over his head, the muscles in his arms flexing as he worked the stiffness from his joints.
“Don’t worry about the floor. It’s really not that bad considering I killed someone in the living room.” James Xavier joked as he walked up and leaned on the wall with his arms cross over his chest, flesh tears in the flesh of his forearms clear from this close though they were healing well and hadn’t been seen by anyone yet; not that he really cared.
“Bring it downstairs, we’ll skin them there.” @Trinais
