~Gang Warily~ Lexi and Gaara's Pack. (Bran and Hinto also)

[Thalion]

Rune was silent for a time after his alpha's inquiry, the only real change in him was a slight shifting from one pay to the other and a vary faint wince of his muzzle. How to explain something that he himself couldn't begin to understand to his alpha. The voices, the strange feelings, even the itching nag in the back of his mind. He couldn't even begin to find the words to describe it all... his alpha had asked for an answer, and it was his duity to fulfil anything and everything asked of him.

Taking a deep breath, the wolf began picking through words carefully, "In... recent days I have heard other things. Whispers... I cannot understand them. I hear a voice as if on the wind from a distance whenever a bird chirps or the humans make their talk-sounds. I cannot undestand where it is coming from, what it is saying to me. I feel something as well, feel like....", he turned his head to the side, but failed to find the word to describe it, "I feel as if... I am with my old master. He had such a feel to him. An old shaman, of all the pups I remained with him. He was blind and very old... it was me he told the fate of the pack to and me he asked to flee and find a new master worthy of my loyalty and service."

 

[Thalion]

(( AIM Rp between Nikui & Thalion ))

Gaara would focus his jade mirages upon Rune, and nod slightly to him. He didn't quite understand it all--nor did the adolescent, it seemed, but it seemed to fall into a place in his mind that was familiar..why? Who knew. He parted his maw in slight through...he would usually say question Lexi on it, but he wouldn't want to make her worry, nor would he want to wake her. Gaara wasn't the best talker in the pack. "Voices.." He murmured, "That's..strange.." He paused, "It doesn't hurt you at all, does it?" If it did--then he'd have to get the adolescent some help. But, from the sound of it, it was more...annoying, or awkward, than anything.

"Harm? Oh.. no not that I know." His ears lowered and his head craned down to rest on the tufft of fur surrounding his neck. "Mentally... I cannot say. The sounds I hear, the voices... they are voices I know. The presence is so strange but distant." He took a deep breath, turning to face his alpha but was quick to lower his eyes to the ground, "Tell me... have I served you well thus far my master?"

Master? His expression became slightly--amazed. He blinked curiously at this, and would shift his paws, and press his tail closely to his body. "You've helped a lot...and you are a cherished part of this pack--" He assured, and smirked a bit. "Master is a strange word for..me." His tone was questioning, but his mood was light..unlike normal. He was calm from the silence and lack of stress.

Rune bowed his head a bit more, "Master is the word for a respected one... one that I am pledged to. You and your mate are my master and mistresses.... as my last master wished, I will pledge myself only to those worthy of what talents I can offer."

Gaara supressed the amusement that wanted to run over his features, and he nodded to the comments given to him. "I see," was his response, and he chuckled softly. "I would like to be able to help you find out what this is all about. But I haven't the slightest of what it could be...or where to start looking for an answer."

"I might." He lifted his head up a bit, his eyes still straying from those of his alpha, "I feel... as though I'm being drawn elsewhere." He turned his head slowly, looking over the lake, "My late master told me once... that whenever I was in need of guidence I should consult the spirits of our ancestors."

"And that would mean.." He was a bit...bothered by asking this. Did Rune want to leave the pack? Or just take a 'break' from pack life? It seemed that the wolf wasn't used to a pack life, besides the old shaman--which, from the sound of it, hadn't been much of a pack at all.

"Perhaps I should seek out the ancient ground." He lifted his head a bit, turning towards the forest where the pack had come from in their last long trip, "It is far from here, but I must ask guidence from their spirits. I cannot perform to my potential distracted so... and I am sorry, my master." He dipped his head a bit more, "But I can swear to return..."

Ah, the adolescent wanted to go on a journey. He would smirk a bit--remembering when he had done the same--not too long after he had left Feanaro's pack..and found Lexi again..after Loki had hurt him so deeply that he never thought he could let it go. And...to destroy that b*****d Hige...he snapped out of his thoughts, and nodded to Rune firmly. "Dont be sorry. I can understand how you feel," his smirk faded to a grin, "I can only wish you good luck. But, pleast stay for the hunt, so you can travel on a full stomach."

"A hunt... yes... yes if that is your wish." He looked back to the lake and took a deep breath, correcting his posture back into a proud upright stand. He didnt much like the idea of solitude once again, traveling in silence and with the danger of so many enemy packs about. "I...thank you."

He nodded to the smaller wolf, and would follow his gaze to where ever it had run to. He shook his head off a bit, and shifted his back paws. "You're strong. And I'm proud to have you in this pack. I trust you'll come back, and I only wish I could do more for you," he murmured just loud enough for Rune to hear, ears flicking forward slightly at the call of a few birds not too far off.

He winced, the voices hissed along with the calls of the birds. Words, but not clear ones. Much like wind in his ears while trying to listen to a distant whisper. "You have done more than I could ask for, master... I have a home and purpose again."