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Tlantli is by Nat!
The flaxen-haired coyote nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly. Jealousy was a good reason to hate, and if all were jealous of them here -- let them hate, Tlantli thought. They would try to emulate and fail miserably, or they would defect and come to Salsola -- perhaps only to be told Salsola did not want them. She found herself grinning as Isabella continued to the subject of men and women, though it faded and she nodded solemnly with the mottled canine's final proclamation.
It is too true. Men are simple creatures of simple wants, and they wear them too plainly, she complained, shaking her head. Not Salsola's men, though there are too few of them these days, the hybrid said, still complaining -- not that it mattered much to her, in any case. Miqui's seed was all she could carry back to Eterne -- anything less was a disservice to the Kimaris line. All other men she had seen in this wide land were inferior; none deserved to share blood with her family.
Though maybe -- maybe, that says something of women in general, and their rightness for Salsola? the coyote suggested. Still, she was not one to vilipend a good man for the entirety of mankind -- to do so would be folly on her part. Tlantli would not altogether discard men -- some had their uses, after all, and she herself preferred a male partner -- but she did not mind the gender imbalance within the pack, if only because it had no effect on her.
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