🌺🔨 Abdiel

Abdiel watched and waited. That's all there was to it. He wasn't the strongest, bravest, or smartest in the pack. Only one of Tirzah's many nephews, gotten on a sister who died early, leaving Abdiel largely to raise himself. Passed from aunt to aunt for looking after, he was family.. but never the same as their own litters. The worst was Tirzah herself, who left the pack entirely now and again, just wandering off to follow her own bliss.

So when she went on her last journey, never returning, he watched the elders start to worry. He waited as they quietly discussed the obvious-- that she'd died out there, alone. Listened to the confusion and arguing.

And then he took the lead.