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In all ways, Gabriel's knowledge that Inferni would not continue with him was true; the silver-shaded hybrid, sure to replace him as his second, had proven twice before that she was unfit for leadership, and now it was far too late in her life for a third time twilight. As much as she had calmed in her age, with that calm had come fuzziness and a lack of sharpness that she had known in her younger years. No longer was her mind as focused as it had once been, and no longer was she as ruthless—this was proven by her very continued presence on the inside of the clan's borders. A younger Kaena would not have stopped until Haku was in pieces or she was; this had played out before with Salvaged, and now she lurked within the clan's perimeter, too shit-scared to travel back to the city, too afraid of that dank library and that awful room. She would never go back there, but she should have been able to at least travel about—now she could have hardly ventured beyond the edge of the Dampwoods without an escort.
A familiar scent caught the scarred woman's attention, and she lifted her head, slowing to a stop and altering her course almost immediately. There was no pressing need to see Gabriel, true—even so, they had seen less and less of one another since the war's end. With the quiet surrounding them, there was no need to report to one another and no need to gather at the burned once-edge of their territory. The silver-shaded woman continued forward, backtracking along her course until she came upon him drinking in the river. She came forward slowly, though certainly not sneakily—she had made more than enough noise during her approach to keep from surprising him. The sable-furred woman settled to her haunches behind him, politely waiting until he had finished drinking to greet him.
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