OOC Small note about this post: Titania slips off to change into Optime and then returns. Conversation can pass while she's gone. She wants to carry the puppy back to the den but doesn't make a move in this post to pick her up yet. 400+
Not long after her arrival, when her words were barely spoken, Tharin burst from the shroud of the forest. A bit shocked, she looked at the wolf as he gave her a hasty yet cordial greeting and then moved over to the stranger. He said a name, Kiara, and finally she knew why this wolfess looked so familiar. They had not met but Titania had been to Ichika when the pack was buzzing with the excitement over the birth of her pups. “You are from Ichika?” Though she asked, the question was merely rhetorical, unless this was some kind of bizarre coincidence.
Her ears swiveled as Tharin asked her about Kohaku, and for a moment she wondered who he was talking about, but she drew her conclusion after the look of anguish marred Kiara’s mien as she dodged the question. The white wolfess’s eyes turned to her, meeting her below her own gaze, and she tucked herself in in all the right ways. The formality of Titania’s posture dropped then and it became obvious that she would not require the ritualistic stance from those below her anymore tonight, either. There was nothing to fear from this one. She could practically smell the grief on her, and she was friend to Tharin and the pack.
As Kiara spoke, Titania moved forward, her ears bent back slightly as worry and compassion crossed her features. She stretched to bump her nose to Kiara’s, and then offered the same gesture to the pup. She save her a loving lick on the head and then turned when Zalen arrived. He spoke before she could respond to Kiara.
“My love… she needs our help,” she was only reiterating what Zalen already knew. She did not know that the Alpha had already offered Kiara entrance into the pack before. “They wish to join our family, and I won’t see this pup turned out to the wild.” Her voice was steady and matter of fact as she stated her opinion, secure that Zalen would agree with her.
Turning back to Kiara and the child, she noticed how tired the babe seemed. “I will be right back,” she said as she turned and slipped off into the trees to change, out of Tharin’s sight line but within earshot so she could hear any words that were exchanged. A few minutes later she would return in the fluid motions of her Optime body. She knew they would be walking back to the den soon and the Alphess intended to carry the pup for the rest of the journey.
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