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Loki had been away a long time. Too long, he thought. Perhaps his God, his Alpha, His Lord, would not forgive him this time. Especially since he was only bringing one pup back. Perun was good within the shadows, almost as good as himself, but his vanity was going to be his downfall.

As Loki wandered home, thoughts of his pack, and the changes that may have happened in such a long time. He knew his God was still there, He was the Heart of the pack, it would never change. As he got closer to home, he noticed a new scent on the air. A new wolf. Yet, they had the scent of the Brotherhood. He had to investigate.

"Perun, Stay put, stay in the shadows until I call you. Someone is about that I don't recognize." Spoke the Omega, his voice as chill as the shadows he loved. He stalked off, to find this new wolf, hunt him as he hunted his pups, test him, as he tested everyone.

Rorret was a young wolf -- young enough to have been born and stolen in Loki's absence -- but he was sharp and keen to move up in the pack. Not that he had any interest in becoming a gamma or, shadows help him, a beta. No. He had his eyes on a single prize: thiefmaster.

The grey wolf understood that there was already a wolf in the job title, but he had no need to care. There was a thiefmaster, much the same as there was an alpha. Gone. Absent. Useless and outmoded.

Unlike himself. He was young, and full of life, and plans. And anyone who sought to stand in the way of those plans would quickly find themselves at the mercy of his teeth...or, more often, his wits.

"Who goes there?" He asked, from his hiding place within the shadows. "Show yourself."

((Haha. I remembered to sign into my own name this time. <__<;; ))

Perun kept to the shadows, holding his breath every moment, just waiting to be attacked from behind from his Omega. It'd be just his luck to think he was doing so well and be attacked from behind. But, so far so good. He caught up to where he felt the others were and sat far enough away to watch and listen. It intrigued him that Loki could throw his voice like that, even made him shudder a little bit. Perhaps another trick he would have to pester Loki about teaching. And Perun was quite good at pestering the Omega into teaching his secrets, or rather, he thought he was good at it. Now to just sit and watch.

Loki appreciated the show of respect from this young Omega. Perhaps some of the tenets of the Pack had not been forgotten. But the only thing on his mind, the only thing that caught his attention was the mention of the absence of his God. How could that be? His God was almighty, no one could defeat him, no one could destroy him. He was the heart of the pack. More importantly, he was the reason Loki kept doing what he did so well.

"You are forgiven your arrogance, Young one" Loki spoke, his voice more normal, though still a dark whisper compared to others of his kind. "I am known as Loki, also called the Thiefmaster. I have been gone a while, but it is good to see that strong blood has been maintained in the pack." Loki spoke these words as a means to put the young wolf in his place, but also to lower his defenses. The young often idolized those who have shown great potential, and Loki was a legend among the other thieves.

"Who are you, young one, and what has been going on in the pack since my departure?" again, using his words to downplay his worry, and to glean information, hoping to maintain as much knowledge while at the same time drawing more out. Then he turned and stared directly at his young pup, who had disobeyed his order to stay, and said "Perun, since you are determined to follow me anyways, come over and introduce yourself to your future packmember."

Rorret's mismatched eyes flicked sidelong to the pup, a brow raising. He had been young, once, and equally impudent. He looked back to Loki, his attention sharply laid upon the other wolf.

"Thiefmaster," he said, testing the title on his tongue. So. This was him. This was the wolf whose title he had coveted. "Your reputation has preceded you. They tell tales of your exploits."

He slid to his haunches, shrugging his own cloak over his shoulders. "My name is Rorret." He hesitated, uncertain how to proceed with the explanation of everything that had happened in the thiefmaster's absence. There was so much, and Rorret had never known the pack the way it had once been. He had never even seen this god alpha they spoke of with so much adoration, though he suspected he was not so impressive. "I...much has happened, I gather, in your time away."

Perun continued to sulk. He was a very vain and took pride in his accomplishments but at this moment he just wasn't happy at being spotted, especially by that other wolf. As the pup listened to them talk he started to get bored. He knew nothing of this pack, since before tagging along with Loki he used to live in another. So all of this was just mumbo jumbo to him.

To keep himself amused he decided to start practicing again, and so he slipped back into the shadows and wandered away from them. Perun couldn't help but wonder how long it'll take before Loki either yelled at him or came after him for wandering off.

Loki let the information flow to him, tasting it as he would the shadows. It was bad news, but not horrible. Someone had been smart enough to keep the Brotherhood going. This council, these elders, that could not stand. They needed a strong leader, whether it be one of these elders, or another. It worried him that Danel was gone, His God seemed so permanent, if a little crazy at times. But the fact that those Betas were gone, and much of the old pack as well, didn't phase him. As long as the Shadowclan survived, it's members were not important

"Rorret, you seem to be a fine wolf. A good addition to the pack. You and I should talk more on these changes. Perhaps we can find a better solution together." Loki was beginning to like this Omega. There was a certain eagerness to him, a desire, that matched his own. " I must retrieve my wayward pup again. Though, before all these changes, it was Our God who made the final decision as to new members. Who should I bring Perun to for judgement now?" A thought struck him, then, and he added, "and the poor pup doesn't know yet that his training won't be under me. Do you have any idea who is training our new bloods now?"