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She hadn't really left her cave since her move earlier in the week, but it was time to spread her wings once more. Andrezej was silenced in the background once again, his voice pushed into the banks of her memories where it couldn't hurt her. As she passed the trees in the forest, making her way through the snow to the manor, she let out a sigh. It was clear that the haunting remembrance of her uncle would never actually go away any more than she would suddenly be free of her wolf blood.
The manor itself was quiet, a good place to rest. She hadn't really justified her visit with anything, but she knew Cotl was there and it was a good chance to see her friend. The ginger German managed to lift her spirits in their last encounter, even if they had argued about Izaak. It was something to do as the snow fell.
But as she ascended the eastern stairs, her ears caught the sound of a gentle knocking on a door; someone was in the hall. The scent itself was familiar, but she knew it belonged to no one that she had actually met. Curiosity prevailed over her desire to see the Imaginifer she deemed a friend, and her destination changed from the western hall to the eastern hall.
Her crimson eyes, gained from her mother, glanced down the hallway as she remained silent. She avoided the eastern side of the manor; it was where Halo Lykoi slept, and her last meeting with her proud Lykoi cousin had not been a pleasant one. Still, someone was there, and it wasn't the female. The stranger was much too large, and much too male, to be Halo (though Talitha was unsure if the latter was really true). He stood before the far door with a blanket in his arms.
As she approached, her steps were soft, eyes remaining focused on the man over other features of the manor; she did turn them away briefly to look at the doors, but they always returned to the Inferni coywolf. She stopped several feet from him, crossing her arms just under her ribs. "I'm not sure she's there," she murmured, her voice soft. It couldn't be considered a whisper, but it was clearly too quiet to be normal speech, a habit acquired in her months with Myron in Drifter's Bay.
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