Going through the motions

Saul Stormbringer · 01-19-2011, 02:33 PM

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ooc;; no worries dear! <33

Saul once again was struck by how submissive the girl was. He thought back to when he had first arrived in Dahlia, so thin he could almost have died. He had still been classed as a puppy, even if he fit into the higher band of the ranking. Still, he had never really shown submission to his superiors and went with apt respect instead. He could remember his first hunting experiment when Conor had turned up to see his success. They still needed to figure out how to make some of the traps he had mentioned. It might be a nice idea to do someday, but Saul felt as though his leader was a little too tied up in Bris and Eclipse right now. He was sad that the other girl had not survived and Saul did not understand the ways of nature enough to give an exact reason to why it had happened to his aunt. But he had a cousin now whom he could see. He hadn't really seen a lot of the girl though and Saul wondered if she was okay.

Like an electric shock running through her veins Siku cringed into the ground. Saul had not missed the instant reaction to his words and he could only assume the trigger had been the word Luperci. A puzzled expression crossed his face as well as a whole heartedly curious one. He wondered what had happened to her to make her flinch so noticeably at a word. She seemed grateful for the cloak though and Saul smiled softly. It wasnt as though they weren't well covered for life in colder weather. But their optime forms had more of a surface area to get cold and it usually came about quicker. And besides, it was more to do with decency than anything else right now.

Although her violent reaction was not lost to him, Saul as encaptured once more by those stunning amber-gold eyes. They appeared molten as she answered his question about living arrangements, and truth be told she just admitted that she had no where to stay. A frown echoed on the young mans lips as he crouched down, then fell backwards to sit on his bum. He didnt exactly like standing above her and wanted this meeting to be much less formal than the last time they met. He pondered her living arrangements for a moment, weighing up the pros and cons of each thought that raced through his head.

"Well, I'm just about to move out of the large manor house that Conor shares with most of my family. You could always use my room until you have somewhere more permanent? Or perhaps when my house is finished you would consider staying with me there for a while?"

He offered with a twinkling in his eye. He was just trying to be nice, but at the same time he would have felt awful if she lived out in the wild when she could just as easily find somewhere to live. Flashing a grin at the girl he dug his fingers into the snow and made a long wiggly line through it. Her voice changed abruptly and he cringed as he heard the sorrow laced deep within. She began to explain and Saul allowed himself to relax into the sound of her voice. Despite this being their first meeting as pack members Saul felt a certain pull towards the girl that he could not explain. Perhaps it was their mutual loss of mothers and lack of fathers that made them similar. But Saul had never really known his mother and by the sounds of it, Siku had certainly known hers.

A strong imagination cast him back into Siku's past and he cringed as images came whirling towards him. A pair of beautiful white females, one too young to shift and the other walking on two legs. They must have looked a sight as they survived and any male would be attracted to that. But Saul's own sense of morals were impression on these imagined memories and he wrinkled his nose in disgust. Just because something was beautiful, it didnt mean you had to go and destroy it. Saul could sympathise with the girl- she must had felt so alone when her mother had hadd killed. Saul could not help the sorry expression cross his face as he looked down at her.

"I'm sorry that happened to you Siku... It must have been hard to leave the life you knew and set forward into unknown lands and a new life. Do you think you find it hard to shift because you remind yourself of your mother? And you want to avoid what happened to her happening to you?"

Came his soft and fluid voice. It was like a mellody in the wind, a lullaby sung at your bedside. From being a shy little boy, Saul had grown into a confident young man with a deep voice and bottomless green eyes. He was handsome and certainly fit and healthy- his mother would be proud.

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