Traveling wasn’t kind on the wounded male. His trot was only as fast as he dared for if his breath labored to roughly the cracked ribs under his thick Secui fur would protest painfully. They were in fact a lingering re-fracture of his wounds suffered during his fight against Salsola. He hadn’t been clear on Tayui’s vengeful reasoning, thinking instead that they had gone to free slaves. It mattered little though. Salsola deserved to be wiped away like the dirt they all were in his eyes. They were only a blight upon the land.
His constant discomfort wasn’t all that bothered him though. His soul reason for being this far from his new packland, an unmarked and unexplored land that needed to be discovered, was to locate an item for his dear friend. It wasn’t the chore either that had him off kilter. He would run to the ends of the world if his friend had a semi-good reason. It was the item; a gift from her mate. A man Jaden had watched leave the land twice, one during Ichika’s transition when it was in need of strong members the most and now again after he had returned and taken hold of his beloved friend’s heart. Why, after finding their new home and settling for a new future, did she want the gift of a cowardly deserter which could do nothing but incur painful memories from the past? He didn’t understand but it bothered him more than he let on. He wouldn’t show it either. If she wanted to cling to the past and a man such as that, he had no place to ask her to act otherwise…
So this was his position while trying to find the easiest place to cross the Halcyon and into the former lands of Ichika no-Hoen. He was simmering quietly, his dominant body language pulled into a tighter and less expressive form to unconsciously show this. It bettered slightly upon notice a scent on the breeze. A comrade he recognized easily. Only a little bit of a detour from his planned travels lead him to a pacing. The obsidian wolf approached to a respectful distance.Comrade, He greeted her warmly, how go your travels?
Jaden does. Jaden speaks. Jaden thinks.
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