kahou (kuhow)
glowing sight
personality
neutral: he can easily be taken for a wolf detached from the world. many of the Pines think there's something wrong in his head; he doesn't seem bonded to even his fellow acolytes. maybe he isn't, quite. he likes them well enough, and he stays with them because it suits him to - and if it ever stopped suiting him, then he would leave.
kind: it's not out of any particular emotion that he helps others, only that he might as well. his life goes more easily if other wolves like him, after all, and it's no real effort on his part to gather herbs the pack is low on or bring a wailing pup a toy.
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history
Saukha, last of the founding acolytes, lay panting in a nest of leaves and grass. he had taken ill some days ago, and was of an advanced age already; they all knew he wouldn't be getting up again. soon they would be only three. nobody else had come to join them, and by no means would the acolytes force a wolf into their ranks, but it would leave them in an uncomfortable position until Saukha's replacement arrived.
except he did arrive, on that very day. a bright-eyed wolf who had heard Saukha's dying dreams, cast out in his delirium without care or thought. Kahou took it as a summons, arrived to fill the fourth place in their number. in his mouth he held a clump of sodden moss. laying down beside the dying wolf, he set it against Saukha's head to cool his fever, and said in a low voice: "i'm here now. the wolf that you were waiting for. i'll be here with them, amri; you can let go now."
he did.
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relationships
Merganser: text
Dried Leaves: text
Runuslari: text
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Halop: as with everything in his life, Kahou doesn't approach romance in the traditional manner. he brought Halop herbs that he was in need of without prompting, told him when a wolf was sick or a pup would be born weak, not because he cared particularly but because it was simple to do; Halop liked him for it. when Halop asked him to sire his litter, Kahou agreed, and he has for every litter since.
