07-08-2009, 02:53 AM
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| http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/kae_columbus.jpg); background-position: bottom center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> -huuuuuggg!!!- I want to hear. :3 The coast was a familiar haunt for the Lykoi by now. She'd been a member of Inferni just shy of a month, and it seemed she spent most of her time here or along the coast in the unclaimed part of The Waste or Drifter Bay. Even so, she did not like to venture far from her home territory, and the tiny inlet Inferni had staked as its own was her favorite place to be thus far. There was something about the sand between her toes and the wind whipping her fur that made it feel more like home, and reminded her terribly of the old territory. Hell's Coast was long gone and burned, but the coyote thought of it often. The hybrid caught her approach, and turned to face her with two bloodred eyes. She halted and faltered a moment, the grin fading for just an instant as she recognized the origin of those eyes easily. Not that there was anything wrong with being a de le Poer—Kaena was just surprised to see one with such a high percentage of wolf here in Inferni. He spoke, and rose to his feet, half-dry and half watered. His words indicated he had heard of her before, or maybe knew her—the hybrid woman returned the dip of his head, her golden eye burning with curiosity. It did not stay long, as he spoke of Gabriel and introduced himself. She smiled, though she did not reciprocate the introduction. He obviously knew who she was. Sometimes other loyaltys surfaced, however, and she understood that better than anyone else. "I had to come back. There's nowhere else for me," she proclaimed with a grin, immediately indicating her loyalty to Inferni, renewed and burning in her chest as plainly as the red chaos star emblazoned across it. It was true—there was nowhere else her heart beat so loudly and she felt so right as here. There was nowhere else she belonged, and it had taken her too long to realize it. Gabriel was obviously how Anselm knew her by just her face—otherwise she might have asked him how. "You're related to Gabriel," she observed, the grin again fading, though there was certainly no hostility in her scarred gaze, merely curiosity. She was intrigued, and there was little bashfulness or shyness in the Lykoi, certainly not enough to make her anything but direct and blunt. He was a wolf, and therefore he was related indirectly to her children, and a non-blood relative of her own. She held no connection to the de le Poers by blood, merely the tie she had forged with Ahren in bringing Gabriel and his brood into the world. Still, it was a connection—and each tie that tethered its members together strengthened Inferni as a whole. |