[Eun wasn't quite aware that she might need time after her day with Asil as well, not until the first few days in and she realized that it had been good for her to have the time to herself. To settle. To reflect. To attempt to work into a daily routine in her new, temporary home. This time his absence feels different, perhaps because it is not completely an absence. They made no plans of when they would see each other again, but Asil made a point of sending her small gifts throughout the days to make it clear that she was on his mind.
Her cabin smells of roses and faintly of him. When she cooks with his offerings, she thinks of him as well. Three days in, she sends Kara with some leftover muffins she's made, and a note thanking him for his gifts. It comes with a poem that makes it clear her thank you is exactly that, and that she has been thinking of him as well.
By the time the pack meeting is called, Eun has been in Aspen Creek a few weeks, and feels quite at home in her cabin. While this is not a vacation, it continues to feel like a trip away from the complications of the Carmel Valley Pack. Space from those who could not take no for an answer, space to learn what it's like to be a werewolf without the distractions of fending off others. She makes friends. She learns how to be a wolf. More than that, she learns more of how to be herself as a werewolf. Aspen Creek offers her more than she expected it to when she first agreed to come.
He attention is split between two of those things, however, when she joins everyone in the barn. Part of her is of course focused on the wolves around her, picking out familiar faces and attempting to learn the unfamiliar ones, while being very careful not to challenge anyone with her eyes. And then there is Asil, standing up front beside the Marrok in a position of honor. Charles is his father's second, but Asil appears to hold an important place in the pack as well, and it seems another small revelation about the man she's been thinking of often since her arrival. Eun is given little time to linger on him, however, or thoughts of their breakfast together, when Kara bounds up, all smiles, taking her by the hand to stand a little closer to the table, closer to where Charles stands.
Eun is given only moments, perhaps a minute to look at Asil from among all of the unfamiliar wolves, before Bran jumps to the top of the table to draw everyone's attention. Once he has it, he keeps it. Eun briefly recalls reading somewhere this concept. This presence that royalty and other rulers may have. The Marrok has it, though he doesn't flaunt it, and even Asil's presence doesn't distract her from Bran's words when he speaks.]
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Her cabin smells of roses and faintly of him. When she cooks with his offerings, she thinks of him as well. Three days in, she sends Kara with some leftover muffins she's made, and a note thanking him for his gifts. It comes with a poem that makes it clear her thank you is exactly that, and that she has been thinking of him as well.
By the time the pack meeting is called, Eun has been in Aspen Creek a few weeks, and feels quite at home in her cabin. While this is not a vacation, it continues to feel like a trip away from the complications of the Carmel Valley Pack. Space from those who could not take no for an answer, space to learn what it's like to be a werewolf without the distractions of fending off others. She makes friends. She learns how to be a wolf. More than that, she learns more of how to be herself as a werewolf. Aspen Creek offers her more than she expected it to when she first agreed to come.
He attention is split between two of those things, however, when she joins everyone in the barn. Part of her is of course focused on the wolves around her, picking out familiar faces and attempting to learn the unfamiliar ones, while being very careful not to challenge anyone with her eyes. And then there is Asil, standing up front beside the Marrok in a position of honor. Charles is his father's second, but Asil appears to hold an important place in the pack as well, and it seems another small revelation about the man she's been thinking of often since her arrival. Eun is given little time to linger on him, however, or thoughts of their breakfast together, when Kara bounds up, all smiles, taking her by the hand to stand a little closer to the table, closer to where Charles stands.
Eun is given only moments, perhaps a minute to look at Asil from among all of the unfamiliar wolves, before Bran jumps to the top of the table to draw everyone's attention. Once he has it, he keeps it. Eun briefly recalls reading somewhere this concept. This presence that royalty and other rulers may have. The Marrok has it, though he doesn't flaunt it, and even Asil's presence doesn't distract her from Bran's words when he speaks.]