The silver-furred coyote was not quite so much angry that Gabriel had been in her den as she wanted to know what the tawny-furred hybrid had obtained from the Quintus as far as information went, and how he'd reacted on learning her relationship to Kaena. The silvery coyote herself was rather panicked, as she had wanted to bring to Gabriel news of Vieira, news of Eris, something, anything—but the few nights prior she'd succeeded in doing nothing but angering the Aquila, dancing around his questions and offering him no real answers to the questions he directed at her. How could she? To do such a thing was to admit supreme weakness, to reveal what Haku had done would lessen her in everyone's eyes. Maybe even cost Kaena her rank, if Gabriel saw such a thing as what had happened to Kaena as that large of a flaw, a weakness.
The tawny canine emerged from the alcove, her pale sandy colored fur clean and dry as compared to Kaena's shaggy, sopping wet coat. She dripped onto the floor without caring, the water falling against the floor and flowing in tiny rivulets down and over the uneven stony floor of the cave. The Quintus spoke her name quietly, one of those answers that somehow infuriated Kaena. She lifted her lip in response, obviously exasperated. She itched to have Optime paws and smack the yellow-eyed canine straight, spin her head right off—Vieira had been here the whole time, Viera knew what the grizzled coyote was so worked up about. The Centurion contained herself, seeing no need to add to the already questionable mark on the wheat-colored canine's face. It had scabbed up and it would heal, and certainly Kaena regretted doing such a thing, but not nearly as much as she regretted what had come later that afternoon. "So, you met Gabriel," the coyote surmised, glaring at Vieira with her single-eyed gaze. "What did you two talk about?" she inquired, her voice acquiring an almost saccharine edge, deceptive as it was sweet, for the hybrid's fangs could have been tipped with poison that moment, she was so on-edge.
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