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Nayru had stayed home most of the morning. When Gideon woke and left the petit female had lingered in bed in a most uncharacteristic manner. It was normally the two toned lady who rose first and crept from the apartment chambers on silent feet, long before the pack lands were buzzing with activity. The woman would make border sweeps, check in on the vineyards, the animals in the barns, then take the rest of the day to wander up and down the shores and through Trenton and Westville. When she found time for herself she would spar or hunt or simply tend to the garden outside of the apartment she shared with her closest family members. Yet more and more it seemed she did not need to tend to all these tasks. The members of Ichika had seemed to take to their tasks rather quickly. The vineyards were doing better daily under the care of Siku and Nayru couldn't complain of Adonia's careful care of the animals either. The borders were often marked by other Ichikans when she found her way around them, and less and less did she run into members who were unhappy. Still some resentment for the merge lingered, but Ichika no Ho-en had seemed to take on its own life and Nayru no longer felt the pressure to try and keep it running. The pack almost seemed to run its self when all the members attended to their assigned task, it simply flowed in the most natural of ways. And so Nayru did not feel guilty when the morning was mostly over and she rolled out of bed. Gideon and she had few belongings, but she spent the rest of the morning arranging what they did have in their apartment. Leisurely she would move one item from a spot to another, and sometimes she moved it back. Once all seemed to be in place Nayru moved to the door and finally emerged from the apartment. Compared to the filtered light of the apartment, the sun was blinding and Nayru stood blinking in the sunlight. When eyes adjusted to the change Nayru was not surprised to find Eclipse lingering outside in the shade of a tree. Easily she moved over to the girl and lowered herself beside the familiar face. Eclipse had come home and Nayru was glad, but still they had not had much of an opportunity to catch up. Nothing seemed more important just then. “Namaste Eclipse, how does this day find you?” Absent mindedly she plucked at the grass beneath them and rolled a blade of grass between her fingers, turning her head and smiling at the younger girl beside her. |
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