eferhilda 08-29-2008 09:47 PM<br/>Shey did not like him shouting at her, in fact his whole attitude was irrational to her and she was not appreciating the hostility from him. "Do you think I sit here in my forest and turn a blind eye to whats going on every where else? That I'm so wrapped up in our war to not see whats happening all over the place?" she growls to him had she been in her wolf form her hackles would be raised as she takes as angry step toward him.<br/><br/>"So lets say I do as you say I should and make a pact with the vampires, the fighting stops. Now I'm focusing on this new supposed human threat and leave my back unguarded to the vampires. When I'm not here they burn down my woods and kill the younger members of my pack, blaming this human threat in the process so I let it be. After all they are my allies now, why would they lie to me?" she steps to him again, "The vampires continue to pick my pack apart until there is nothing left because I kept my part of the deal and those disgusting, honer-less bastards stab me and my pack in the back. Are you going to help me then? Are you going to step in and rescue my pack from this threat? Or are you going to hide in your church and wait for the vampires to come for you next?" she flexed her hands angrily at her side.<br/><br/>"Don't go telling me what you think I should or should not do or what is at stake here....for you don't know shit about what those beasts are truly capable of." she took a calming breath and looked up at the night sky. "We can't separate on this Brian, if what you're saying is true then we need to be together on this from all sides. If just one of us falls the rest of the pack weakens, how do you think that hundreds of dead Uratha will effect the Shadow?" she asked him wanting to see the error of his thinking.<br/><br/>Forgotten Wolf 08-31-2008 09:14 PM<br/>Brian slowed a bit as he calmed a bit as some of Sheyâ€™s words make senseâ€¦ though he didnâ€™t like her saying his pack would stand by and do nothing if her pack was betrayed. He sighs and turns around with his anger still smoldering, waiting for the chance to flare up again. â€œListen, I never said you needed to make a complete alliance with them but cease fire would be enough. You can then focus on defense mainly and send out feelers or let my pack do the foot work to try and find out if itâ€™s an isolated issue or a more widespread problem.â€ He let that settle for a second before continuing, â€œIf this turns out to be an isolated problem then the period of peace will insure that it doesnâ€™t turn into a wide scale problem. If this turns out to be something much bigger, then you and everyone else wonâ€™t be fighting a two front war. This might be larger than just the werewolves; the changelings, the mages, AND the vampires might all be at risk as well. You asked me how the Shadow would look with hundreds of dead Uratha, and now I ask you: How would it look if the entire supernatural community was turned to ash?â€<br/><br/>Brian kept quiet about the fact he had acquired a few friends in the vampire community feeling that it would ruin everything at the moment if she found out. Brian was tired of the fighting, it was becoming dangerous to the city in more ways than one and had all ready caused so many deaths. That was why he left and took a couple of other freshly changed weres with him, they werenâ€™t strong enough for the fight and the war was quickly becoming pointless in his mind other than for revenge but he also knew he wasnâ€™t strong enough to take the alpha position from Shey. So he did the only other option, remove himself from the pack that took him in after his first change and create his own pack.<br/><br/>Brian had thought long and hard after his pack was force quite rapidly from Black Rose territory towards the mountains in the east. He finally came to the conclusion that they couldnâ€™t hold any territory inside the city with only five members so instead they would move amongst the shadows of the city out of sight of the other packs. It wasn with this thinking that he tracked down a chameleon spirit somehow and got it to agree to be the packs totem spirit and grant the pack its ability to hide/blend in as well as some skill to strike quickly as well as accurately in hand-to-hand combat (or claw-to-claw or jaws).<br/><br/>Shey wouldnâ€™t know about most of the battles Brian and his pack fought for they kept them mostly in the shadows and far out of sight of the public. If it wasnâ€™t for their regenerative abilities, Brian would probably have been covered in scars from gun fights or even more from teaching newly changed how to control their rage and form. Despite being still weaker than Shey, he was still far from being a poor leader to his packâ€¦<br/><br/>eferhilda 08-31-2008 09:30 PM<br/>Shey sighed raking her hands through her thick hair in frustration as she paced back away from him getting herself under control. She could feel the truth in his words but it was hard for her to admit to him and especially herself. Fighting the vampires is all she has ever known, all she has been taught to do and now with the death of her parents her driving force in life.<br/><br/>She turned her golden eyes regarding him as if for the first time, he did carry with him all the power and confidence needed to be a leader, to be an alpha. He was talking for the good of everyone not just the wolves and as much as she hated the vampires and her goal was to kill as many as she could, she knew that they were just as important a balance as were the Uratha. Sighing again hands again going through her hair in that nervous manner that she has never been able to shake she paced back to him.<br/><br/>"I will see about meeting with the vampire prince in calling a city wide truce at least till this new threat is identified and dealt with. You have the resources of my pack in aiding you in your mission, but I'm going to need your word that should the vampires double cross me that you will never again come to my woods preaching of peace with them...." her arms crossed her chest as she leveled her gaze at him, allowing just the smallest bit of her power to show. Wanting him to realize just how bad this could turn out for him and his pack should any harm fall her pack at the hands of the vampires.<br/><br/>Forgotten Wolf 08-31-2008 10:45 PM<br/>â€œI just suggested a cease fire that doesnâ€™t mean you need to trust them. It just means you agree to stop shooting at each other for a period of time.â€ Brian says slowly with partial relief. â€œYou can keep the resources of your pack, my people are capable of finding the information and besides if the vampires do betray the cease fire youâ€™ll need all of your strength. If they do betray youâ€¦ us, I will promise you this: you wonâ€™t be seeing my pack in your woods for will be an invisible thorn in their side as you continue your war.â€ Brian meant these words, he believed in people staying true to there words and held great contempt for those who would betray another for no other reason than to seek harm.<br/><br/>Brian gaze was even with hers though his stare didnâ€™t hold a threat hidden in them. He let his spiritual aura leak out a bit in response to Sheyâ€™s. His aura didnâ€™t some much radiate out power but rather that of the impression of hidden wisdom and subtle cunning. It was two aspects that he built himself and his pack around rather than relying on direct force.<br/><br/>â€œIs there anything else Shey that youâ€™d like to cover or ask while Iâ€™m here? If you want I can act as a middle man to set up the meeting with the vampire prince for youâ€¦â€ Brian offered trying to be nice though he had the afterthought that it could be interpreted another way but it was too late know to change his words. Brian couldnâ€™t help but really wonder know if the other supernatural races were in jeopardy as wellâ€¦ and if they were going to start taking sides in this conflictâ€¦<br/><br/>eferhilda 08-31-2008 11:14 PM<br/>Shey smirked humor coming to her gold eyes, "What else are you offering there Brian?" she teased him as she gave him an appreciative once over then nodded, "You would probably have a better chance of meeting with him without some blood being shed in the process." she shrugs as all of the tension leaves her body and she relaxes once again in the presence of someone whom was once a close friend.<br/><br/>"Glad to hear I can still count on you if complications do arise. The way your pack hides in that city I bet you could cause a lot of trouble to those uppity bastards." she smiled her gaze now relaxed and one of friendship. Placing her hands back in her jacket pockets, "My offer stands though on the help and the extra wolf power if you need it." she sighs as three large shadows emerge from behind her, going to one knee waiting for her to acknowledge them.<br/><br/>"Yes." she said to them not looking back at them remaining her eye contact with Brian humor still in her eyes though a bit of her power did flare a bit in the presence in her pack. "The area is clear, he came alone and no one followed him." came a very deep tone. "Very good. Call back our vampire hunting parties and have everyone meet in the woods we have a new enemy to discuss." she says inclining her head to Brian as if to say, *See...I do listen when you talk.*<br/><br/>"It shall be done." came the same voice and then the shadows were gone. "So I have begun my part in this truce lets hope you can get the vampires to sit down and meet with me in order to make it a two sided deal."