Current Objective: Diplomacy, sort of ---
Form: Lupus----
Mood: Dry-
Not sure what it was about today, but X'ies was getting tired. For all that he'd seen of the outside world and the other packs he had come to this one startling conclusion. No one on this gods green earth saw the world through his eyes, or shared much of his beliefs. And well this meeting was no different, Jaden had taken to going back into his Optime form, a form that whilst was more practical for the use of tools, X'ies found inferior. Simply put, he considered the form they were born with to be the form they were supposed to take, shifting held its uses when and if it was required. But living like this was outside of the Nomadic pattern of behavior and thus seemed strange to him.
Today he wondered just what sort of pack representative would meet them this time, the past few times they had been lucky to encounter some leading members, other times it had been...well...colourful to say the least. This time, it would appear that the one greeting them was a pregnant female...oh...this just had to be the best one of all. She informed them of information that was already quite obvious, and X'ies would respond thusly, lazy eyes looking over her form. "...You are merely pointing out information we already know....if we were unaware of such my friend here wouldn't have let out a call....however..its interesting to know that your pack has its pregnant females patrol the borders....this either indicates to me a lack of man power...or a lack of male power..either one....good to know" . X'ies had already made it quite clear to Jaden that his primary purpose in these meetings was to access the threat level, and tactical value of other packs.
Currently if this female was any example to go by, this pack wasn't particularly big on personal control. Among the nomads, pregnant females were cherished commodities, kept protected at all times. If this one was allowed to wander in such a way, to X'ies it referred two points. Number one, the discourse of thought. The point that the female would even consider this an option, meant that the pack had no restraints on what its females did, or did not do in this condition. X'ies found it hard to believe with the visible show of her pregnancy that the pack was unaware of it, therefore a lack of stable control was his first point. Second was that the female was currently carrying weapons, this in itself seemed foolish. Whilst yes, protection for ones self and ones children came first X'ies knew that this protection could not be a stand alone affair. In fact, her having weapons probably did her more harm than good, the presence of weapons escalated situations, what might only be a rigorous beating from strangers could easily turn deadly the moment a weapon was brought into play.
...plus it couldn't be too comfortable to wear considering her condition
In part X'ies thought this singular meeting provided him with quite a bit of information he could use, although half of it were based upon assumptions, and those couldn't be relied upon...even if they were accurate 9 times out of ten. " Jaden, if you would. Let out another call...I would ask the female to run and get one of their leaders, but I fear waddling with knives is normally a risky affair..". Ah, his poison tongue. It was so good to let it loose once again, a smirk crossed his muzzle as he identified with it...so good.
