The alabaster creature lurked on the fringes of the den area, caught in between what he wanted to be and the reality of where he was living.
New Dawn was growing rapidly, and Shandom saw the benefits for that. It was populated with more males than females, which would cause inevitable tension - the desire to mate would become overwhelming thwn the females were in heat, and there was simply not enough to go around. Years of emotional celibacy had made restraint slightly simpler for the Gamma, but he could not deny that he was an incredibly sexual being and craved the intimacy that existed during the brief act of mating. He could not help but be compelled by his carnal instincts, and so the white male often excused himself from the presence of female. Shandom chose his female friends with care - Titania, perhaps Soran, and of course Naniko - but that was all. They were all off limits in their own ways, and the white Gamma was more comfortable with that notion.
He'd heard through the grapevine of the new mates that populated New Dawn - Shadowfang and Insomnia, both of whom he'd yet to really get to know, and Augustus and Ciara, both good wolves that Shandom was excited to see together. He hadn't predicted such a mateship, as both were rather young and inexperienced, but he thought they would be good for one another. Augustus was gruff, and Ciara occasionally childish: hopefully the union of their souls would bring together something greater and better. It would be strange for the white male when puppies became a reality in New Dawn, as that was his least favorite demographic, but it was the reality of a pack and he would accept it without complaint.
But he could not deny he felt something of an outsider. The Gamma was a passionate believer in traditional hierarchy, and he separated himself from the wolves who appeared to have lost that particular notion. Shandom had his flaws - he'd partaken in drugs and alcohol, though just once - but he was, at the end of the day, a wolf before anything else, and he acted in accordance to that particular trait. There was no other way to live, at least not through his chocolate colored lenses. It was why he helped found New Dawn alongside of Zalen and Titania. He sought a life away from the human vices that, for some reason, were seeping their way into the borders he so loved.
The white male sighed and placed his head upon his paws, staring longingly at the den area. He was hidden rather nicely behind a tree so nobody could see his musings unless they stumbled directly upon the male; however, his scent would not be hard to trace. Hopefully it was obvious that he was not asking to be left alone, but merely deep in thought: if another approached him, Shandom would be more than willing to chat with his brother or sister.
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