Though she was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn’t feel him approach, Kiara did notice when he sat behind her. It was hard not to when he was basically wrapping his legs around her. Well, that was an exaggeration, but why did he have to be so close? Why couldn’t he just leave her alone like everyone else? That was a great question, she thought. She should really ask it. Instead, Kiara found herself turning a bit so she could see him. 

She squinted slightly taking a moment to notice that it was tears that caused his image to be blurry, and not her vision. With a small, almost annoyed sigh, she wiped them away and turned her attention towards him once more. It was strange that his presence calmed her so much, but she supposed that was because of the mark. It was even stranger that this annoyed her so much. Kiara found herself moving so that her knees were drawn up to her chest, and her head lay on them. “I miss my home. Don’t you ever miss yours? Surely you had one at some point. No one here really had ties back home, except maybe the healer. I left my parents. And for what? Nothing?”

She shook her head for a moment before closing her eyes. “What are you even doing here? I thought you were a non-pack wolf. Why haven’t you left yet? More importantly, why won’t you leave me alone?” As she asked the last question, her voice broke and she buried her face into her knees. Why was today so hard? Was it because the rest of her life was so easy? Well Karma sucked. In the back of her mind, a small voice told her that this was how things were supposed to be. She ignored it.