your sons and your daughters

[Kaena Lykoi]

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http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/kae_bloody.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:fixed; padding-top:230px; padding-left:15px; padding-right:15px; padding-bottom:10px;">     The coyote had been glad to have Rikka return, even if they had not gotten along so well in the past. Kaena was willing to forgive and forget most anything when it came to her children, and with the arrival of Vieira as an apology from Eris, there was one less of them that had done something unforgivable. The hybrid woman understood why Gabriel had thrown Andrezej out, but Kaena herself wondered if she could have inflicted the same punishment of death onto him. It was one of the many questions she had asked herself and gotten no answer.     Kaena did not have to be psychic to realize that Rikka was upset, and it was her last instinct to assume it was something she had done; immediately, before the other canine had a chance to speak the hybrid had already attributed it to someone else, and her first words confirmed this suspicion in the hybrid's head. What had Vieira done to anger Rikka? Rage choked in the hybrid's throat, freezing cold and dropping instantly with the tawny canine's next words. So this anger and discontent was then Kaena's fault. There was an indescribable look on the hybrid's face, wavering somewhere between still raging and hurt.     Her golden-yellow eye regarded the other canine for a good moment before the hybrid spoke. "Vieira's mine," she stated, casually and as plainly as she could. In the hybrid woman's mind, the coyote was little more than an object, a plaything sent to her from Eris to do as she pleased. If Kaena were to command the other coyote walk into the ocean and drown herself, Vieira would be obliged to follow the silver-furred woman's wishes. "She doesn't want to be mine anymore, she can leave, hm?" the hybrid asked. Kaena had not forcibly held Vieira with her; Kaena had not made Vieira walk all the way from Mexico to Canada. That had been the whim of Eris.

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