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The quiet of the world and everything in it did nothing to comfort the scarred old woman. He was still out there, still lurking and creeping and waiting for his chance to hurt her. He would do so again, given the chance—he was a monster, and this was what monsters did. The silvery hybrid felt no sympathy for him; his madness ran far deeper than her own, which would seem to be almost a youthful phase—others might have categorized and classified it as such, but Kaena knew better. Inferni had saved her, Inferni had grounded her—with nothing and no one to stand for, of course she would have turned to madness. Hell, she might have ended up just the same as Haku himself had she not had the coyote clan to fall back on.
A strange sound at the borders caught her attention, and the silver shaded woman recognized the beckoning for herself; this was a curious voice, one she vaguely recognized but could not attach to a name. There was familiarity here, less than that of family but still definite—trotting forward eagerly, the coyote woman headed out toward the sound, her pace quick without being considerably hurried. There was a sense of urgency in the voice, and the coyote did not wish to keep whoever was on the other end waiting. As she approached the edge of the territory, a vaguely familiar scent entered her nose, and she narrowed her remaining eye, recognizing this as Tayui. Back again? The coyote had discussed the war with the woman more recently, and though that was over, the fight against the devil was not yet over.
As she approached the pale woman, two things were immediately apparent: something was wrong, and something was different. The hybrid detected AniWaya in the other canine's fur now; either she had joined with them recently, or she had been away from the pack long enough for their scent to have faded during their last meeting. This was hardly as troublesome as the first thing, though—it hardly mattered where Tayui was from if there was something terribly amis. “What's going on?” the hybrid asked, agitated by the other canine's agitation.
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