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She's unshifted =3 and in lupus!
Her heart had fallen a bit as the months had gone by; it seemed that Barrett wasn't going to be coming back any time soon. Judas had been acting more dejected than ever over the last couple of months as visits from his father had lessened. She'd tried to spend more time with him, but the boy had nearly attacked her the last time she had tried to hold a conversation with him that involved emotions or him telling her how he felt about Barrett leaving the territory. He'd asked her if she regretting having him and his brothers, because their father had now left them all behind...and she'd answered honestly. No, she didn't regret them, and that Barrett's disappearance wasn't his or his brothers' fault. That had seemed to piss him off, though, somehow. She wouldn't try to guess how the mind of a young male worked.
She missed the companionship that the male had brought with him. Naniko hadn't been able to buy much of the drug off of him before he'd chosen to take off, either, so now she would need to be looking for a new source. The Angela looked out over the mountainside with a sigh. She'd picked an area that did have a few strips of fertile soil, but not as much as some of the other pack territories. She had claimed the mountain itself, gaining its protection in exchange for giving up other pieces of land that could have been used to grow crops.
The female had been testing herself lately, having grown tired of the day to day routine that life in Anathema sometimes brought. She would spend some days in her optime form doing tasks, and others in her lupus. However, Naniko did not favor the halfling form as much, feeling that it was the most unnatural and most difficult to get used to. She would spend each day training in that form, trying to improve her skills and make both forms feel natural to her once more. Shandom had some influence on that, with his love of his natural form - she'd realized after leaving his territory last that if she were caught in her lupus form, she'd be quite vulnerable. The thought had stirred a desire for change within the Angela, and a desire to master skills in both forms.
She thought she was hearing things when a howl reached her ears, coming from the border area. The voice was easily recognized, but what was the meaning behind his visit? She hadn't managed to get any presents out to New Dawn despite wanting to...she'd been too busy. Maybe he'd come back to see if she had anything to give, now. She swallowed guiltily and began to pad toward the border, quickening her pace as the ground evened out in front of her. The mountain cast a long shadow over her as she went, jade eyes looking over the border area. Her nose worked hard as well, trying to locate him. "Shandom?" She called, certain that he was somewhere nearby.