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mall-caps;">In Character Had Kaena been able to peer into Anselm's head, she would have seen thoughts almost mirroring her regarding clan and kinship. She had founded Inferni as the only Lykoi, and though Kerberos lived after her departure, he did not reside in Inferni. Her primary drive return to Bleeding Souls after her first departure had been vengance, and she had wanted to taste Salvaged Eternity's blod. When she had found her clan devoid of familiar faces save Kesho, who had never been too close anyhow, she had delayed an immediate return to Inferni, and instead pursued Salvaged. The strange leadership and the new faces within Inferni made it far less of a priority for the coyote on that return, but it was the presence of family and potential family which drove her back to Inferni the second time, when she found it under Segodi's leadership. As the Lykoi regarded Anselm with her single golden eye, she noted his high percentage of wolf. There was definite coyote in his blood, however, and she saw it in his slightly muddled features and his tawny golden fur. Were it not for her experienced eye, he could have easily passed for a full-blooded wolf. Those crimson eyes were striking, that same bloody color of Ahren's eyes. There was something hard and sharp in his features, and the Lykoi matron noted that, her golden eye taking in all of his features and filing them away. He was here to stay, she saw, and Kaena was even more glad as he continued to speak. It seemed Anselm was an experienced creature, and he was largely in part to thank for Inferni's continued existence. He seemed to be a tough, loner type, however, and the Lykoi wondered if he were not distantly related to Gabriel if he would have offered his helping hand so willingly. It didn't matter—Anselm was a very smart canine, and he was an asset to Inferni's ranks. "Glad to have you back," she said with a grin. Inferni felt more powerful already, strengthened by the return of this canine. "Inferni needs as many canines like you we can get," she said, complimenting his extensive skills—he hadn't quite organized them into a bulleted list for her convenience, but she caught the jist of things from his words, and what she heard had impressed her. The fact that he was a de le Poer already commanded her respect. She thought about it for a moment, and somewhere from the murky depths of her mind came the answer. "I think cousins is close enough," she said. There was only one degree separating Anselm and Gabriel from being true cousins, and Kaena wondered just how far the de le Poer family's vastness extended. There were several members of it she was now acquainted with who seemed to have little relation to Ahren, the focal point of the family in Kaena's eyes, anyway. Anselm was more closely related to Ahren than he was to Gabriel, naturally, but they were still a distant sort of cousin, separated by a degree of family. Valkyrie was even more distantly related to Gabriel and his father, separated by an entire branch and several generations. Kaena had no idea what to call that relationship herself, and she thought it was worth investigating later, perhaps when she had spare time to rifle through the books in the city. |