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The silver-shaded coyote would not have guessed that her son was already acquainted with this sable wolf; she did not know of Gabriel's habits and how often they brought him out of the clan's territory. Kaena herself did not often venture far from her home—it was both fear and shame that kept her home. As the shadows grew deeper and longer, the silver-shaded hybrid fidgeted, awaiting her compatriots. Inferni's territory was big, but now it was not quite as oddly shaped as it had been before—length-wise, the beachfront territory had been a terror to wander up and down. Even so, it butted against the ocean and was relatively easy to defend, and so Kaena did not wish to complain so much. Besides, that place was long dead and burned.
As Gabriel approached, he spoke to Lucia and made himself comfortable, settling to his haunches. He was utterly comfortable here, of course—this was his domain, and Lucia's nervousness seemed amplified by his calm. There was no instinct within the hybrid to increase the coal-colored female's anxiousness, yet she remained quiet. As much as she had come to like Lucia in the short time they had known one another, there was no question where the scarred Centurion's true loyalty was, and for that she was unapologetic. Freindship would never override her loyalty to the clan. The silver-shaded hybrid's head twisted about to greet the arrival of the second canine she had hailed, Snake.
There was relative calm now, and the silver-shaded hybrid found this somewhat amusing, although entirely fitting, given what she knew of Snake. No doubt he was the stoic counterpart of this dynamic; Lucia had proven to Kaena that her love was feverish and powerful almost to the point of foolishness, given the way they had initially met. The coyote woman looked from one face to the other, and nobody seemed willing to mention the reason they were all hanging about here today. Sighing quite softly to herself, the scarred hybrid smiled wearily. “Well, I don't think I have to explain you two to each other, hm?” she asked, glancing from Snake to Lucia. “She's ah, involved with Snake. Maybe to the point of wanting to run with Inferni,” the coyote said casually, though she knew the magnitude of the request—in all the clan's years, there had been three or four wolves in all allowed to call themselves ‘Inferni.’
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