🃏Jester🃏 #72732

After hours of wandering in the forest, you finally break through the trees and come across a large clearing. In the center of the clearing seems to be a large territory. A pack of wolves seem to be conversing with each other. A strange wolf with a coat of a deep blue color with white patches pauses, his eyes darting around until they land on you. He whispers something to the wolf next to him, a black and white wolf with bright green eyes, and they slowly approach you.

"Hello traveler! My name is Emer, and this is Troublermaker pack."
He seems to notice your incredulous face at the name and chuckles before responding.
" Oh no, it's not like that, we don't actually cause trouble or anything, my mate was the one to choose that name, back when we were young and reckless..."
You ask about his mate.
" Oh, my mate? Well, her name was Jester. She was quite the leader. That is, before....."
He trails off before looking quite solemn. Yikes, maybe you should've not asked about that, clearly something must've happened between them.
" Oh, don't mind me, just reminiscing. Come, let me introduce you to the rest of the pack!"
You follow him to the middle of the pack's den, and are greeted by a surprising sight. There's so many wolves here! One wolf walks up to you.

"Greetings traveler. My name is Zion. I can sense your apprehensions about us, but I assure you, we do not desire to harm you."
The weirdest part wasn't his word choice, but the fact that he had three eyes!! He motions for you to follow him down a tunnel. At the end of it, there are strange glowing plants everywhere, easily illuminating the cave with an eerie blue glow, nothing seemed natural here. Zion turns to you.
" I'm normally not supposed to show you this, but you seem special, so allow me to introduce you to the Astral Realm."
He stamps the ground once, and all of a sudden the room seems to distort and strange images of stars flood your vision. When everything clears, there are a group of ethereal wolves standing in front of you. One of them speaks up.

" Zion, who is this wolf, and why did you bring them to us?"
" Calm down, Cirrus, I saw something special in them, and decided to bring them to you."
Another wolf with bright green eyes that glow brightly looks sternly at Zion and replies.

"Really? Or were you just bored and wanted someone to frighten with our presence, Zion?"
" ......maybe..."
The wolf sighs before explaining to you that they were members of the Astral Realm, the ones who controlled quite literally everything in the forest. He also introduces himself as Apollus, lord of the skies. Quite the lengthy title but sure. Turns out these wolves act just like any other wolf, just with reality altering powers, and turns out that the patched wolf you saw with Emer earlier is also a member of the Astral Realm, just through ascension rather than being created as one. It's gotten late, and you bid the wolves farewell, and start continuing in your travels, but not before grabbing some food first.