It wasn't uncommon for the woman to throw a fit instead of think rationally. Rarely was anyone capable of calming her. Yet, as she fumed about the deed committed by her cousin, Gabriel's words made so much sense. She already did so much to protect herself against everything but physical attacks. No love, no real name, nothing that might allow someone to gain the upper hand in her life. The rage stopped short as she realized what her father told her. The fits were just as dangerous to her as everything else she closed herself to. But what enemies did she have in this day and age? Haku was dead, and he had never truly been her enemy. Andrezej was a distant memory. This collie from the dogs, oh she was nothing. Talitha saw now that her family was hers, that nothing would move them while she managed to breath. Still, there was no place for a weak-minded child in the world of adults.
Her breathing halted before starting slowly, one deep inhale followed by a fitting exhale. The coyote's face turned over her shoulder. "Yes, you're right. I'm sorry." How strange it was to apologize to her nocturnal King, especially for something that might have seemed so trivial. To outsiders, the new knowledge might not have seemed so important, but to his daughter, it was everything. She wasn't so stupid to think she knew more than Gabriel.
She allowed herself to sit once more, body falling back against the cold ground as her eyes gazed upward. The faintest memories of her childhood danced around the edges of her mind. "I lived here once, with you and mother and Zekie," she murmured, one frail hand taking inventory of all the pockmarks and rocks on the ground. "We were happy then, weren't we?" Happy. When had she truly last been happy?
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