12-28-2010, 02:39 AM
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Nayru let the other woman's words wash over her, but the mental images that popped up were all of Dahlia de Mai. Agricultural lands? Nayru thought only of the expansive vineyards and orchards, and other small farms that had been left to the wild in Berwick and outside of it. Houses and marketplaces, she only thought of Wolfville with its abundance of dysfunctional shops and empty homes. Erasing those images from her mind as best as she could she tried to picture Tsukiko's home land and found that only the landscape of Northern Canada came to her. Nayru had never experienced another climate and had only experienced the pack life that seemed so common in these parts. Was it really so different an ocean away?
Nayru was not surprised to hear that the woman came from nobility, although Nayru had only information she had gained from books about such concepts. Her actions spoke of refinement and in an almost embarrassed way Nayru wonder if Tsukiko found the inhabitants of Dahlia to be unsophisticated. The girl let the feeling pass, she was not ashamed of herself and certainly not of the pack, but would she feel differently if she had grown up in different culture? Did canines maintain such a hierarchy in other parts of the world that worth and value traveled through one's blood lines? Perhaps they even did that here, in a crude way, but an alpha's child had just as much of a chance as climbing ranks as did an omega's. Was it not so in Japan?
“What makes one family noble and another not?" So innocent and sincere, the girl just truly didn't understand.
Nayru let the other woman's words wash over her, but the mental images that popped up were all of Dahlia de Mai. Agricultural lands? Nayru thought only of the expansive vineyards and orchards, and other small farms that had been left to the wild in Berwick and outside of it. Houses and marketplaces, she only thought of Wolfville with its abundance of dysfunctional shops and empty homes. Erasing those images from her mind as best as she could she tried to picture Tsukiko's home land and found that only the landscape of Northern Canada came to her. Nayru had never experienced another climate and had only experienced the pack life that seemed so common in these parts. Was it really so different an ocean away?
Nayru was not surprised to hear that the woman came from nobility, although Nayru had only information she had gained from books about such concepts. Her actions spoke of refinement and in an almost embarrassed way Nayru wonder if Tsukiko found the inhabitants of Dahlia to be unsophisticated. The girl let the feeling pass, she was not ashamed of herself and certainly not of the pack, but would she feel differently if she had grown up in different culture? Did canines maintain such a hierarchy in other parts of the world that worth and value traveled through one's blood lines? Perhaps they even did that here, in a crude way, but an alpha's child had just as much of a chance as climbing ranks as did an omega's. Was it not so in Japan?
“What makes one family noble and another not?" So innocent and sincere, the girl just truly didn't understand.
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