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 Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:30 pm
"Well, even if it appears your motives are to appease the spirits, I shall thank you none the less for preventing any future assassinations. And If I learn of any, or see any that threaten you, I shall tell you right away." Szalka said with a smile. The problem of Irons being assassinated could easily be dealt with if he had an heir, but then again, the heir would too be at risk of assassination. It really was a hard thing, this whole heir buiessness. There were positives to it, and negatives.
Szalka then said something in her normal way of not truely thinking about saying it. It had been weighing on her mind and she supposed in their good moods they could calmly discuss it. "Have you given any thought to having an heir, of course I would only encourage you to find a female and have pups when it seems more profitable for you to have heirs, you are young yet, and have no need to have sons who might try to end your life sooner rather then later." Her tone was calm and evan, not wanting to upset him, even her posture, walking beside him with her tail held low, was submissive.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:40 pm
"I have... considered the idea," Meaning he had considered it only since Szalka had arrived and suggested it, "However, I find the whole business at the moment to be... more stressful than I would like it to be. In case you had failed to notice, there are only three females in this pack, one of which is you. That does make the selection... limited and thus, more difficult." There was no other way to put it.
A heir. Even then, he would have to chose from a litter, the most powerful, which could very well be a male or a female for all he knew, that would have to be trained to take over his position. Irons would rather fight a dozen more wars than have to deal with this.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:47 pm
"You do have time to decide, and I am sure that when we gain allies the female youll have to choose from will... open." She said eyeing him. "The three of us have our faults and our strengths though. But I wouldn't consider myself in the running." She said then realised she had just stung herself and looked ahead of herself quickly, trying not to blurt out that she was the best candidate. Of course she was, but did she want to be tied down to anyone? And especially Irons? Sure they seemed friendly now, but what would happen when she was less inclined to be kind to him, or he decided she had angered him, by not being social enough.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:44 pm
"Technicaly, if I may say so, it is really the complete opposite. You are, in all truth, the Shaman, and at the moment with no other warrior perspective mates, nor any suggestions from our allies at the moment, you are the most likely candidate. I thought you would know that," Irons mentioned, raising an eyebrow, "Mind you our... constant argueing is hardlt an up note unto that suggestion." The idea made Irons a little angry, true, but he was the Alpha. He had to be realistic to his duties. He and Szalka didn't always get along, true enough, but it was the duty of the Alpha to mate the strongest female in the pack.
Szalka, in this case.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:55 pm
"Our arguments are why I ruled myself out. I wouldn't have expected you, even if I am the strongest potential candidate, to over look the fact we would probably bicker, and you must take into consideration the likely hood of us having pups, if we fight all the time." She said sounding very uncharacteric. She sounded serious, and she was. This was about the betterment of the pack.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:37 pm
"In my experience... fighting with your mate is perfectly normal..." Bitternes hedged on Irons voice, but he continued on anyway, "I don't rule anyone out, so long as the bettering of the pack would come of it. It certainly never stopped my parents. If you are the best candidate, then you are. It is as simple as that." Which for Irons it was. He barely remembered his father, true, but his mother had constantly spoken of how weak and pathetic his father was. If they had cared for each other at all, Irons had never known about it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:47 am
"I suppose you're right." A thought then hit her. If she was the best candidtae, and he chose her, what would she do? Would she be happy, indifferent, angry? As shaman, she knew she'd not likely mate for love, especilly not in this pack. But, how did she feel about the thought of being bound to Irons? In a pack where he was alpha and she was shaman.
She would admit she did want to be his mate, but had no idea her intetions behind it. Did she care about him, the pack, or power? This thought worried her. Was she like her father, a power hungry ego maniac, or like her mother, who only agreed to mate the alpha for the betterment of the pack?
[EDIT: sorry! accidentally made the font tiny! Sorry again...]
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:59 am
"Yes, I suppose I am," Irons sighed, "Mind you, nothing is set in stone. Should anything happen, I won't force anything on you. Betterment of the pack or no... if it can be avoided, I don't like forcing wolves to do something they don't want to do. If you have no interest in me, then I won't make you my..." Irons paused disliking the word even before it left his mouth, "...mate... however temporary it might be."
A mate. Someone he was supposed to share his burdens with... burdens that Irons liked to keep to himself. A mate... the very idea made him sick, though he gave no notion of that. He would do what was nessesary for the pack, no less. Perhaps more at times, but never less.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:45 pm
"I... I thank you for your kindness. But If I am the best candidate, then it's my duty to accept, my duty to the pack, and my blood I suppose." She glanced at the canopy above them, guessing at the time of day it was. She supposed the pair should head back soon. It was starting to grow late. True the sun was visible, but what would the otyher wolves think if Irons and Szalka, the two who always fought and bickered both dissapeared for so long then came back together?
"I suppose we should head back, no?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:44 pm
"I suppose..." Irons nodded, following her train of thought absently, "However, I am quite serious when I say that if you don't wish it, then you must do nothing. That is more or less my responsibility... not yours. I should find myself a heir..." That did not seem to impress Irons. It was clear that it wasn't Szalka that made him distastful, it was the idea of even having a mate at all... but no, it wasn't even that idea which upset his mind. It was the thought of failing where his parents had.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:48 pm
"As long as we continue to get along so well, I should have no problem with being your mate. When the time comes, and if I am chosen. I'm too young to need to think about pups yet." She said turning her topaz eyes on him. She knew one day she'd probably find a male whom she'd admire enough to mate with, if she didn't follow he rmothers pawprints and mate the alpha, which it seemed could very likely happen.
"You seem quite sore on this subject though. Does the idea of having a family scare you?" Oh yes, she could read him. His eyes gave him away, and she was quite good at reading people. You could bring the most mysterious wolf to her, and she could figure them out with a conversation, no matter how unfactual, and as long as she could see their eyes.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:59 pm
Irons froze up for a moment, his fur bristling, as though she had physicaly struck him, "Perhaps... scare is not the right word for it. However, I have never thought of myself as being someone who... would make a good father, considering the blood that I come from. I... worry, I suppose, that I will turn out to be like... her." He paused again and then shook his head, "Not to get me wrong... I loved my mother, I still do... however she was... harsh... and at times, I did hate her... but the idea of parenting as she did... or being the mate that she was... for what I remember of my father, she was far less agreeable than I was... I just..."
Scare him? Did it really frighten him so much, the thought of having someone so close to him? In a sense, the answer was yes. He didn't want anyone to be close enough to know him as well as... as well as she had. He didn't want anyone to hurt him like his mother had.
"I'm like her in so many ways, but I don't want to be her. She didn't care about the pack, she only wanted the power behind it. That was all that drove her. That was her whole reason... for anything she did, and I hated that about her. I still always wanted to make her happy, so I fed into that... and she used it against me as often as she could. I don't want to be like that. So in a sense, I am afraid, yes... but only of being like my mother." Irons stopped that then and there.
He couldn't believe he had just told her that. He couldn't believe had had just told her that! He didn't show it outwardly, but he knew he had just taken a very big step out of his comfort zone. He had never even told Kei that much, and that wolf was like his therapist! What the hell had he just done!?
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:06 pm
Szalka stopped and watched him, her eyes unreadable for a moment as she considered his words. It was a good argument. But so far, he seemed nothing like the crazy woman Szalka had remembered as being his mother. "No... I don't think you will be. Besides, I think any pups you would have with me, were I your mate, wouldn't see us as much as pups of a normal pair would. You'd be busy being alpha, and I would be preoccupied with my visions and Shamanism..."
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:12 pm
"Yes... I suppose so..." Irons mentioned, trying to regain his calm. Thinking bout his mother... that usually meant that her ghost would be somewhere nearby. He didn't want her to hear any of this... no matter what. Even if she was only a ghost who only hedged on the edge of his dreams, he didn't want her to know what he was afraid of, "However, one must be brought up as heir, and one must be brought up as Shaman. That is simply the way of things, which means we would have contact with at least one of them."
He was still amazed, though he didn't say so, that they had managed to carry on a conversation for that long without fighting. Who knew that they could be reasonable.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:15 pm
"I understand, and agree..." she said with a nod. "I think we ought to hea in now. I do not want to demand all your time... perhaps I shall come visit you tonight." She offered politely. Of course as soon as she returned to her little den, she'd go into some trances and burn some herbs, but when the moon rose, she could grace Irons with her pressence if he wanted.
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