As dawn kissed the earth, the shadow that was the Alpha of New Dawn crept through the tree line like the shadow that he was. He had an uncanny knack for slinking through the brush like a serpent, silent and quick. This morn, he was trotting a lot with the tail of some hapless rodent hanging from his jaws, the remnant of his early morning breakfast. He slurped down the remains when a call was issued to the north of him and his ebon tufted ears perked in that direction. A newcomer? How lovely.
Zalen then loped towards the sound, eager to see who it was that was calling him. Having recently lost two members to circumstances he had no knowledge of, the prospect of perhaps another joiner was a welcome one. The pack certainly had begun to round itself out in terms of numbers, something that he believed boded well for them, and soon the punishment period of Noah would be over, and everything would be back to normal, just at the cusp of spring. The dark Alpha was very happy for this.
Soon, he found the tree line thinning, and in the distance, a wolfess gleaming in the new born sunlight like a precious pearl. Zalen was nearly taken aback by the visage, for it was very striking, but this did not heed his steps and he was soon upon her, the onyx tones of his fur in complete contrast to her own. He stepped right up to her, not one for respecting was silly boundaries the Luperci of the lands had set for themselves. His stance was one of unadulterated assuredness and dominance, though it was of a calm reverie and his midnight tail swayed behind him slowly like a flag of friendship. He sniffed at the female’s ruff, and she smelled of the wilderness, just as Ciara had when he had first met her. Good morning to you, I am Zalen, Alpha of the pack at who’s borders you stand. What is your name, and what is it I can do for you? He asked in his low spectrum tenor voice, his apple eyes glinting as the orb of the sun just began peaking over the forest to the east.
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