Draco looked around the small safehaven she called home since her family went to support the Dark Heart pack. Draco had made her home in a small cave on Morning Star territory since she didn't want to run the risk of running into any of her family members. Draco had feared her family ever since she was young, the only one she felt she could really trust was her older brother. Had felt she could trust. The truth of the matter was that when she was 10 years old she had been tricked by a werewolf that was supposed to be her friend into giving up family secrets and leeching money off of her. Her older brother, who had been 16 at the time, found out about it and killed the boy before he could make any use of the secrets that had been told and money that was given. Draco had been terrified by the ordeal and was a little scared her brother would hurt her as well for what she had done, but he promised that he would never do anything to hurt her. That very same day her family sent her to be punished severely and had Kurai be the one to punish her. He promised her that he would never do anything to hurt her, he promised. After the punishment Draco felt she couldn't trust anyone, not even her own older brother and soon left after the report of the King's death and the kingdome splitting in two. Draco shook her head to bring her back to her present situation. Draco knew that she had to stay alert if she wanted to survive on her own, something that her brother had always taught her. Draco found her thoughts drifting back to her brother again and she felt tears starting to drip down her face. Draco soon shook her head again and wiped her eyes before standing up to look for some herbs and berries. Draco had never really hunted food that could get up and run away since her brother didn't have time to teach her that, so she settled for whatever edible plants she could find, and since her family was famous for being completely immune to poisons, Draco would also eat plants that were poisonous as well as long as they would fill her stomach so she wouldn't starve. Draco had soon found some blackberry bushes nearby and harvested the berries to put in the basket she had brought with her when she left home. It was one of the few things she had brought with her other than the basic survival gear, she had also brought all her sketchbooks, some art supplies, all the clothes she could bring that were more fit for surviving in the outdoors, and surprisingly enough, a music box that her brother gave her with a picture of them both inside, and a stuffed wolf that looked like him that he had made himself. Draco was scared of her brother and still felt like she couldn't trust him but that didn't mean that she hated him. She had brought the stuffed wolf toy of her brother because it was the first present she had ever gotten from him and when she was little her brother told her that she could tell her toy everything she needed to say when he wasn't around to listen, it had become like a good luck charm to her over the years, and the reason she brought the music box with her was because it played the lullaby her brother would often sing to her at night and the picture allowed her to look back and remember the times before she stopped trusting her brother. Draco soon had finished picking all the ripe berries from the bush and went to the nearby apple tree to harvest the fruit. Draco had planted all the nearest sources of food herself after geeting some seeds from further into the forest since it was more convienient for her. Draco then put the food she had picked in her nice and cool cave so that they wouldn't go bad as fast. Draco ate an apple or two and a few handfuls of berries before standing up to search for herbs. Draco had been trying to find a way into the Morning Star pack for a few years and about a year agon she came up with the idea of leaving presents on the outskirts of town would be the best way to slowly gain the trust of the pack before revealing herself as a Wolfbane. She would leave hand woven baskets of fruits and mushrooms that normally couldn't be found where they lived, her cave was about 2 miles away from where the Morning Star pack members bothered to patrol because they couldn't get up the cliff because it was so steep and the rocks seemed so unstable that it wouldn't be safe to climb just to patrol, but since she had gone up and done the cliff so many times to deliver and pick up the same basket over and over, she had gotten good at navigating the trecherous cliffside and rarely hurt herself doing it now. Draco would often pick rare herbs that she had cultavated herself to leave for the pack's Healer along with notes about the herb so he would know what it was used for and a brief message along the lines of "I hope you find this herb helpful" or "If you need any more herbs leave a note in the basket I'll be happy to help." It had kind of become a thing that she would do for the past year and most of the members of the pack knew the schedual, every Friday night their "mystery" gift-giver would leave the basket at the outskirts of the town around midnight in the same exact spot and the basket would have all sorts of things that they couldn't normally find very easily and an abundance of them too and the basket had a note tied to it that read "Please take contents but leave basket." Then on Saturday at midnight she would pick up the empty basket and they usually wouldn't see the basket return until the next week at the exact same time. Draco soon found some new herbs growing further away from her cave that she didn't have growing in her gardent yet, Draco had actually been secretly observing the pack too and knew almost everyone's names because she would often watch the Healer's hut so that she would have a rough understanding beforehand of what herbs he might be out of if there was sickness going around so that should could bring him more of them to include in the gift basket. Draco admired the Healer's skill from afar and many times she had been tempted to get closer so she could see his skill up close but she always resisted the urge. Draco also found the Healer fairly attractive but she would never say anything about that in her letters to him included with the basket. Draco knew that the pack members might have found it creepy to know that some strange werewolf they had never met had not only been leaving them gifts but sometimes watching them too but she couldn't help it. She was intrigued by the bond that the pack members shared with one another and how they could trust eachother completely even though there were so many members of the pack, it was an entirely forienge concept to her, she had never experienced something like that since the only one she had ever been able to trust in the past was her older brother Kurai. Draco began to pick the new herbs so that she could give some to the Healer Neon and keep some so that she could plant the seeds in her garden. Draco soon had finished gathering all the items for the gift basket and decided to work up the courage to deliver the basket to the Healer in person instead of leaving it at the outskirts of the town.
When Draco arrived at the forest's edge that was closest to the Healer's hut she started to get cold feet, she was scared what would happen once Neon and the other members of the pack met their mystery gift-giver in person, would they reject her as soon as they found out she was a Wolfbane, would they try to attack her because of it? Draco just didn't know, but as soon as Draco saw the falling object in the sky and heard the impact, she ended up getting the final push she needed to get her to move into the light and into Neon's line of sight. Draco hesitantly walked over to Neon with the basket and quickly but silently held out the basket when he noticed her so that he might figure out who she was. Draco was looking down a little like an inexperienced child would when trying to give a present to their first crush. It was obvious that Draco hadn't really thought of what to say once she revealed herself as the Mystery Gift-giver.
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