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Post by Alvina on Jul 30, 2017 0:01:42 GMT
Nicole’s smile was not easily hidden as she regarded Warin. “That was the idea. Maybe one of these days we will have someone who can make stained glass fall into our ranks, or a smith. Then we can doll up the place or make it a little more defensible.” She swung her feet to thump lightly against the wall of the platform she sat atop of. With Alvina’s appearance, she stilled long enough to pluck up some of the fruit. Almost at once upon biting into it, juice coursed down her chin. Alvina’s hand flicked out to supply a cloth from a small bundle she’d brought, something which the Were-monkey quickly snatched up with a grateful grunt.
With something of a lazy absence to the gesture, Alvina plucked up a strip of dried meat from the platter and tore a strip with her teeth. It was after she swallowed that she took a vine of grapes and set to quietly working each of the small fruits from their stems, head tilting slightly with Warin’s question. “Yes. Pack rules.” As she continued speaking, with each rule that followed, she plucked another grape from the vine, leaving it to rest in her palm. It was best to be blunt, and get through it quickly. “I expect that you respect me, and your pack mates, regardless of who you do or do not personally like. My orders are absolute. Mate bonds inside and outside of the pack are to be respected. Everyone can expect food and housing in exchange for equal work. We all take turns scouting the territory or making contributions here; obviously the sick, old, and young get preference for tasks. Betrayal or willfully dismissing responsibility will be addressed swiftly.” Alvina’s eyes traveled up from her grapes as she moved to pop one into her mouth, meeting his then. “There are repercussions for breaking any of the rules, depending on the severity, that fall to the discretion of myself or my second in Command, who you have not yet met. In extremes, the Pack holds a trial. Questions?”
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Post by Warin Ilmatar on Jul 31, 2017 16:03:24 GMT
"Well, I'm neither of those, unfortunately. I picked up no useful skills during peace time." Warin flashed Nicole a grin. She had been kind, whether it was by duty or by nature. He liked kindness and the sense of humor she seemed to possess. It made it easier to relax. She was a good choice for welcoming new comers, he thought. Personable, relatively unthreatening, but in a way that probably made people underestimate her. He made a mental note not to do that. All werebeasts grew up surrounded by violence, even in a time of peace. They were close to nature, and close to the life and death, bloody struggle of it all.
His smile waned a little, expression settling into seriousness as Alvina took the forefront of conversation to lay down the pack rules. They made sense to him, though a brief expression of irritation flitted across his face at the mention of respecting a mate bond. For a moment, he thought about letting it go. He looked down at the table, tracing the grain in the wood as he tried to decide whether it was worth getting into this early. Finally, he decided it was not worth waiting on. He wanted to know early if this was the kind of group he was throwing in with.
"All of those seem reasonable." The 'but' seemed to hang unsaid on the end of the statement. "While I respect the right of any bonded pair to enjoy the benefits of their mate bond, I will not be part of any group that would force someone into a relationship against their will for being mate bonded, regardless of race." He considered adding more, but it touched a little too close to home, so he simple shrugged. "I will not participate or support the murder, kidnapping, and rape that often run rampant under the cover of the 'sanctity of a mate bond'. If you simply mean, respecting their relationship as I would respect any other, then I have no objection."
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Alpha of the Blood Rose Pack
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Post by Alvina on Aug 12, 2017 17:19:04 GMT
Nicole seemed content with Warin’s flashed grin, following it with a small nod. No useful skills during peace time? If he stuck around, well, he would need to figure something out. Some way to make a contribution. She grew quiet, content to nibble and eat on Alvina’s offered fruits as the Alpha soon then went to work giving him their introduction speech.
Nicole did not interject even when Warin’s smile waned and some expression of irritation crossed his face. Her amber eyes did not miss it, however, when Alvina’s head tilted and her eyes narrowed at his pause.
She turned her palm, the grapes she had separated from the vine falling from one hand to the other. She lifted the palm, allowing the small, pearly red fruits to again roll from her palm and into the hand they had originally been settled into. Plucking one up, and popping into her mouth, she seemed to chew decisively. Alvina was using the fruits in that moment as a means to ground and keep her anger reserved. The quiet accusation in his words… It was disgusting.
She revered the bond. Had the utmost respect for the Goddess and her plan. She would even go so far as to protect those and the mates which experienced it… But she was not a slave-keeper. She hardly acted to enforce unions created through the thing.
Her jaw stilled from her chewing, her voice level. “I offer protection, but I do not force pairs together. Murder, kidnapping, rape?” Her voice dropped. “Those are ugly atrocities that I will not have within this Pack, especially over something so sacred. We respect the bond here because of the potential, the implications, and the impact on our kind when it is valued, and when it is lost. No more, no less.” Her lips were thinly drawn. “So no, I will not ask those things of you, as your Alpha or as another Werebeast.”
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Post by Warin Ilmatar on Aug 17, 2017 4:32:21 GMT
He watched her carefully as he finished speaking, feeling the wait of the words between them. Only belatedly he realized they might have sounded accusatory but he didn't feel particularly sorry about it. In some ways her quiet anger and offense comforted him and he settled back, picking up an apple and rolling it between his hands.
Goddess given or not, Warin disliked the special treatment given to the matebond. Not because it wasn't valued but because it de-valued all other relationships even though even the most basic bonds of packmates was important. Relationships were complicated beasts. They didn't need magic to make them more complicated and they didn't need the cultural baggage that so many werebeasts seemed determined to load up them with.
"While we might disagree on philosophy, I agree with you on principle. Your terms sound reasonable." Everything about his posture had relaxed. He bit into the fruit, eyes half closed in the simple pleasure of the taste. And yet, his gaze went from Alvina to Nicole, sharply observant. He wondered what else they might have in store for him or was this it? Now he just... wandered about and figured things out? He could manage that.
"So what now?"
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Alpha of the Blood Rose Pack
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Post by Alvina on Aug 21, 2017 3:55:30 GMT
Her eyes lingered on him with a sense of cool anger and indignance. Slowly, the kindled look seemed to fade as the tenseness left her form. His acknowledgement of her terms being reasonable, even if he prefaced it with the snobbish bit about philosophy, did enough to smooth her hackles in any case. Nodding slowly, the Alpha popped the last few grapes into her mouth and was just chewing when his eyes travelled from her to Nicole. What now? Well, he had not been the first to ask such a thing, nor was he likely the be the last.
It was with her brief glance of acknowledgement that Nicole sat up a little straighter and jumped to speak. “Now we get you settled in a place. You must be tired after travelling so far to find us.” She flashed that smile that was eerily both human and primate, though perhaps a little more human-leaning given her form. “Welcome to the Pack.”
Alvina’s words followed, though her eyes keenly regarded him. “Yes. Welcome, Warin Ilmatar." A brief moment of silence, her head bowing to the platter slightly. "Help yourself to any more rations that you'd like. Nicole will show you to your residence when you are ready.”
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