Queen Raija 2-C

Raija, the packmother and mate to the alpha Alexes. Raija was not always that way tho.

Raija was born daughter to an alpha in a deep forest, she was raised royalty and trained as supposed heir to her birth-pack. Raija was always a curious pup, running around asking all of her pack mates questions about the outside of the pack borders. Her mother always tried to steer Raija off of caring about the outside trying to keep her focus on her future as alpha. Raija never understood why.

So when Raija turned a year old her curiousity overgrew the wise words her mother and aunts tried to tell her. So she ran away. Ran and ran until she reached the edge of the deep forest, it eventually thinned and a cold breeze blew trough her fur and she stayed stunned watching the plains she saw before her, the beautiful fields and mountains in the distance, the beauty she had imagined outside of her dull but interesting forest was way better than expected.

Raija just stood watching until she heard a deep growl behind her. She froze, her shackels automatically raised from her being on edge. She slowly turned her head to look at the wolf who stood, more as crouched behind her eyeing her. Raija didnt recognise them, they must live in a pack nearby to the forest. She was scared but also stunned by their beauty and strenght, the she wolf who was behind her still keeping a hostile eye her.

The wolf spoke suddenly, "You are outside of your territory Kerrion, and your hunting grounds are on the other side of the rivers here" she had growled in a deep tone. Raija was stunned at the mention of the Kerrion name, that was her own pack?! "i.. I didnt know- i just wanted to see something outside of the forest.." raija meakly whispered to the hostile stranger.

"You are different. I can see and smell it" The stranger slowly eased out of her hostility slowly letting her fur settle. "You smell of your alpha, Camarron, id assume you are someone of importance example daughter, but here you are. You ran, i can tell, i did so myself at your age." The she wolf had sat down letting her gaze rest on Raija. Raija was stunned, where had the hostility gone?

" join me. Join me back at my camp, you obviously dont want to go back, and you are too soft to make it on your own. So join me"

Raija instinctively let her fur rest, and took a step towards the she wolf and nodded her head and started following until they both padded into a camp hidden on a cliffside between mountains.

Raija was introduced to the alpha, Alexia and the son and heir Alexes. She was stunned by his beauty and his muscles showed trough his beautiful pelt. Alexia had snapped her back to reality by trotting a circle around Raija inspecting her and then sat back down nodding to her son.

Alexes got up by his mothers cue and nodded Raija to follow her. Alexes had shown the rest of the pack to Raija and then they walked of into a meadow with a creek beside camp and talked, bonded.

Months later Raija felt at home in the pack. Carrying a litter of Alexes, who she is mated to, she is destined to be queen along side her mate Alexes. She sometimes wondered what would have happened if she had stayed in her home. If she became alpha. Would dhe have been this happy? She doubts it.