It has been a few weeks since I have been sent here and the only company I have is a kinsman of mine and two other oafs that won’t let be for any amount of time. I have written home and my dark lady had replied that she would be coming for an extended visit. I will be glad to have the company of a female I know, one that won’t be glaring at me nor muttering foul things at me.

I stretch lazily in this strange bed. The workout with Tynan yesterday was a splendid one. Perth and Hyde had other ideas of how a woman should handle herself. I wonder if they keep their females under lock and key here. But surely they would know better or maybe since it is only me.

”Perth, have you a mate,” I purr at him all the while as I practice changing my fingers into claws. He obviously ignores me. Did Vladamir really choose these men for my guardians or is this a council decision. “Cat got your tongue?” I catch Tynan from the corner of my eye trying to hide a smile. Perth rolls his eyes and keeps up his silence, Hyde looks slightly disapproved of his behavior to the new chieftess. I start to click my nails together for a nice little filler noise. I look over to Hyde his eyes are on me as I move across the furs. I wonder what exactly is going through his head. Surely he knows better than to have any thoughts that would extend past my safety here. But why are they here I this room with me and not outside these quarters? Are the rules different here than from my own clan? Do they worry about my one-eyed kinsman?

I am restless and tire of the present company. I want to ride out and meet my dark lady, Tynan would grant me that, but the other two would insist on tagging along. I look at Hyde a bit too seductively. He gulps down the knot in this throat giving me his full attention. I smile then laugh giving the impression that I was happy or to some degree content in this new place. “I am going out,” I say with a distinct authority no longer something that seemed placid. I stand up to give the full effect of my short stature, but daunting presence. “And you will stay here. I have been in this…place for three weeks now. I have not met my husband nor this council of elder that is still dictating my role while my husband is gone. I have not met yet a friendly face. I have not done my share of any work in this place.” I continue to list off many things that matter and things don’t matter.

I start to walk into Perth and does back off and away closer and closer and get to the door. I am barefoot and far from being in anything ‘decent.’ My chance is clear and before Tynan even has time to yell at me I have shapeshifted and within a blink I am gone, running fast and free to meet my dark lady at the very end of my new clan’s land…