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####Never had she imagined telling her mother the truth after her sudden departure from Dahlia de Mai, but it seemed only fitting now that she try to hurt her mother as much as her mother had hurt her, both past and present incidents in regards to her beloved brother, and now with the appearance of her swollen abdomen. If she had not been so angry about her brother’s disappearance and her misplace anger towards Mati, the girl might have even forgotten the reason that she had come to her mother’s den at the sight of the older woman’s condition. She wanted to know how this could have happened, since Tokyo had seemed so adamantly against sex, males, and puppies all together. Tokyo truthfully did not look as wretched as Princess wanted to make her feel, and the girl scoffed, apparently disgusted by her mother’s state of being. It was a true emotion, though, as she found it completely appalling that someone like her god-awful mother could actually continue bringing children into this world. She and her brother had enough problems, so it did not seem fair to force that on even more young ones now that she had lost her only two remaining children. That was the only logical reasoning she could come up with for her mother’s pregnancy, since she knew how her mother felt about pregnancy and puppies.
####“Everything. She knows everything,” she said simply, a smirk dancing across her muzzle. It was not the complete truth, but her mother would not be able to tell that. If Princess had been willing to leave her mother for her brother without much of a second thought, why wouldn’t she have told Cercelee everything? There were minor things she had left out, but the foundation was there. “I had to tell her how horrible you were so that I could leave safely, because my brother”—she refused to refer to him as Tokyo’s son—“did not want you to know he was here, and for good reason.” A lot of good it had done her in the end, though, considering she was now left alone in Crimson Dreams, the same state she had been in even in Dahlia de Mai. There was not complete loneliness, of course, as she still had Haven in Cour des Miracles to turn to, and she now considered Mati to be, more or less, a friend. The two girls were certainly on better terms than they had been upon their initial meeting, and she was glad that she could now say that she had Mati to turn to, as well. She supposed that would be a good thing in the first place, but even more so because the girl was Haven’s sister, and they were obviously very close to one another.
####Her mother’s tone elicited a growl from her daughter, Princess’ fur bristling at her mother’s condescending tone. She wanted to hurt her mother more now; it was not her fault that Tokyo had gotten pregnant the first time, was it? She hated that her mother seemed to want to hurt her further than she already had. “Are you planning on killing them, too?” she snarled, crossing her arms defiantly across her chest, placing yet another barrier between mother and daughter. She hated that her mother seemed so happy about her upcoming litter, and with someone as unpleasant as Haku Soul. Princess had only met the former Lilium once before her departure, but she distinctly remembered him as being terribly rude and even a bit frightening. Certainly she would not admit this to her mother, though, but she sincerely hoped that Haku had hurt her or would do so soon. It was exactly what Tokyo would deserve for all of her past, and most likely future, wrong-doings.