Pet's ID Tag: Kennel 6
Name You'd Choose for It: Elina
Gender: Female
Reason You Want It: She's a cute design, and the purple "dots" look like jewels and are a pretty contrast to the pinks used. She will be paired off with a mate and will be a apart of a new story of mine.
History/Background/Other:
Personality:
Sweet:
She likes to sugar-coat lots of her words. She hates being mean, and is practicing for one day when she has pups to be gentle with them. She loves to speak around negative issues since she knows that sometimes even she cannot sugar-coat some things enough to make them seem only a small negative, relatively speaking.
Kind:
Related to sweet, she always tries to help someone who needs help. She loves it because it lets her know that she is doing the right thing every day.
Likes:
Being sweet, kind and affectionate are some of her favorite daily activities. She enjoys young pups, as she wants her own one day. She also loves her family and friends and cannot wait to have a mate one day.
Dislikes:
Being mean to someone sometimes makes her feel like her whole has been ruined. Mean people in general set her into and unhappy mood. She also dislikes fighting, and pointless bickering. She will stand down from a fight even if she knows she's right.
History:
Peace and love is what I wished for everyone as I left my pack. I hadn't been one to be picked for exile, but there was so little left in our territory, I knew I had to leave for the betterment of my friends and pack. Most of the surrounding packs were peaceful and had a little more of an abundance of food than our territory. Those who had been exiled because they could not contribute or other reasons I wish to not explain went east, as they are the most peaceful and giving out of our neighbors.
Since I did not want to follow my pack to the east, I decided that the west was also a good option. However, there were rumors that they could be hostile. I did not believe this, as my father had been from that pack. Everyone else seemed to disagree with my decision, especially my mother. She said that my father was the only good wolf from that pack. I had seen a few of them on the borders of our territory and they seemed nice, although they may had been a little less merciful with their prey.
I decided I would have to leave once everyone was asleep. That would make things much easier for them and for me, and I wouldn't have everyone, if you'd pardon the human expression, hounding on me for leaving and going towards the western pack. Maybe I'd be able to start anew and even find a mate.
As I looked at my sleeping pack, I made sure everyone was asleep as I turned to leave. Before I left them behind, I licked my mother's cheek, not knowing if I would see her again in this lifetime. Before I could let myself be caught by my tears dripping near my mother's face, I turned and left. I knew better than to look back this time, for I knew if I looked back one more time, I wouldn't have the will to leave.
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Heading west wasn't as easy as I remembered from last time I went to our borders. I knew I was going the right way by the stars I could see on the horizon. A field spanned the distance between our forest and theirs. The other packs that weren't mine were also a part of our forest. Maybe that was what made our western neighbors so different from us was that they had a whole other forest that was slightly different than ours. Our forest included trees that were only slightly old. They were skinnier trees that seemed to always have squirrels near the base. I remember I used to chase them up the trunk with my brothers and sisters back when I was a pup. I would miss everyone.
The western pack's forest was different. Lots of dead trees lay on the ground as huge hollow logs. Their trees were very wide and very old. Dad said that there was a legend that every time a storm raged through the forest, one tree had to at least fall down, but he and his pack had realized that the noise that was associated with the trees was actually thunder, but it still made for a good story to tell pups. They also had this plant that my father called ivy. He described it as a plant that acted like a snake. It would wrap around trees and logs and thrive be wrapping around them. It was an interesting concept.
Our forests couldn't be too different because our neighbors were just like us and even hunted the same types of prey we did. I could only imagine that their pack couldn't be that different from our own.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Finding the other pack was no problem, but when I found them, I got the most unwelcome welcome I think I've ever seen. It's not like I snuck up on the pack. I made sure they knew I was coming just so they wouldn't feel threatened. I reached their main site around late morning. By now, my pack must have found that I was gone. However, I had more to worry about than my pack.
A scruffy black male that I assumed to be the alpha approached me, hair on the back of his neck raised.
"Who are you and why are you here?" he growled. He stared at me, not taking his eyes off me. He started to walk around me, checking for anything unusual, I guess.
"I'm Elina, sir. I'm from one pack to the east. I come asking for shelter here as my territory is running low on resources. I beg you let me stay," I told him, using a gesture that showed him as must respect as I could muster. I lowered my tail, showing all signs of not being threatening. If he did not let me stay, I did not know where I would go.
He gave me a few more glances as he came from around the other side of me. His hair had settled down on the back of his neck, so I assumed he knew I was not a threat. By this time, others of his pack had gathered around. They had pretty coat patterns just like at home. It made me happy to know that they seemed nicer than everyone back home had thought.
Inclining his head, he declared, "You are an outsider. I do not trust you yet, however, you may stay... for now." With his word spoken, I felt relieved that I was allowed to stay. The other wolves seemed to want to talk to me to see what I was like and who I was, but all they did was stare at me for a few moments before turning back to what they needed to do to start the day. One female, however, seemed to stay longer than the other wolves, but once I caught her eyes, she simply turned away and loped after the rest of her pack. She looked to be my age. I'm sure I would get to know her soon enough.
I understand that by adopting this creature I take full responsibility for it.