02-04-2010, 06:54 AM
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You can change your username by posting in the Maintenance thread (In the Roleplay Related subforum) asking to include your surname. Adding a surname is an acceptible reason for an account name change  And yes, your wolf can be blonde! It's a normal hue in wolves. The rules for pelt color is just to prevent someone from joining with a shiny, lime-colored wolf  Sorry about the length, we've recently had a competition about post lengths and I'm a bit stuck in that pattern still. There's no need to match it unless you want to Word Count: 673 She made a short howl in response as he approached her, and though Dawali was not used to this, he knew that it was certainly not unconventional. Walking closer, he spoke and watched her as she took a submissive stance. Another thing he was not used to, for it was harder for a luperci in the shifted form to signalize these things clearly, than on four legs. And since most that lived here stayed shifted, this was what he was used to. But in this situation, he appreciated her efforts, for in times of war he was more suspicious, and needed more convincing to lend his trust to someone he did not know. He nodded as she gave him her name and goal. He had already guessed her purpose, but he could have been wrong. The possibility that she was sent from the north but had masked her scent through a long time of staying away from her pack was there, but given her nervousness and stance he did not think so. He thought this one was honest. She gave him a snippet of her history, too, and he offered a brief face that displayed sympathy. No child should have to experience such things; his own family had suffered a similar loss, though not quite as violently, and so the Chief could relate to a certain extent. His daughter Aiyanna never did like to speak about her mother. He was about to ask her about details on skills and the like when she continued speaking, almost reading his mind. The common conversation in this situation would be to ask for just the thing she now told him, and he would not interrupt her just to be unpleasant. He was not one of those leaders who demanded absolute submissions and speak-when-spoken-to behavior; it undermined the individual and their possibility to thrive, and he did not appreciate it. He had had a Chief like that once, before Ayegali's time, and he had not liked it at all. Listening, nodding sometimes to signalize that he was paying attention, his ears moved a little now and then as they took in the words that rained on him. She gave a tale, and Dawali thought for a moment that perhaps she was nervous, though she did not look overly so. Some spoke a lot when nervous, him included. The Chief waited until she was finished speaking and a little longer to make sure she actually was finished; he did not want to interrupt her. With her final sentences she gave away how intent she was to get a home here, almost begging and almost telling him to take her in. He liked that, in a way, and he wanted to ease her nervousness. Smiling politely again, he eased some of his defensive stance into a more neutral one. Even the times when his stance was completely neutral, people percieved him as dominant due to his height and his crown of feathers. This was something he could not do anything about, but his arms and legs relaxed a little, and his tail was lowered into a more comfortable position. "Your skills are useful, and not unlike my own." She was young, she said. Two years was almost the average age of the tribe; it brimmed with young wolves, and he stood out like the only old one. Well, not old, but certainly older than them. And Tayui of course, though he did not always speak as much with her as he had before. "We will not try to change you here, but we can certainly teach you further in all of your abilities." She had already provided him information, but he still felt a need to ask her about something. "Tell me, where do you come from? The south?" Better safe than sorry, and if she did not know about the conflict, then she would not understand that his question was more than small-talk. If she convinced him, she could stay with them. It was up to her, then. |