Tlantli approved of her niece's drive, and her ability to learn quickly was what kept the woman's lessons coming. Of course, she wouldn't teach her all she knew — it was best she keep some secrets for herself, but she felt assured that Salvia would be capable of filling in blank spaces with her cunning. The young woman didn't have the same hope for her brother, a quiet shadow of his father who wasn't even capable of transforming yet, or the new set of children born to her sister. It wasn't for lack of trying — she had hoped Pandemic would show the same initiative, but he had never stepped forward to ask and she wasn't the sort of woman to seek him out to teach. Her pupils had to want it. They had to ask themselves.
As she expected, Larkspur was gone, and her disappointment almost flooded forward before being swallowed by the negative emotions that usually filled the Eternian. Of course he wasn't. Why had she expected he would be? It wasn't like her to play the part of near-simpering fool, certainly not for a man who neither met the criteria to mate with nor offered a useful skill to her, and the frustration she felt was uncomfortable to her. It didn't matter. She and Larkspur disliked each other enough that it would never matter if she spoke to him again, but something had driven her to look for him. A sigh replaced whatever words she had been thinking of saying, lost as her eerie calm replaced itself within her.
"Eso es demasiado malo." She shook her head, allowing her eyes to close as she tried to find a subject to talk about with the girl. "How ess your madre? Ahre you pleased to haft new family?" Birth in Eterne had always been a thing of celebration, but she was of a younger litter than her siblings — Salvia was older, and it was quite possible that she was displeased to have the focus shifted away.
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