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The morning had already brought Kaena to waking, and she left Vieira well enough alone, letting the other canine sleep till whenever she damn well pleased. Kae believed she had made her point the other day about why exactly the Quintus was not supposed to get up; it had taken all of Kaena's strength not to get too sharp with the tawny-furred woman, but in the end it had been alright anyway. Vieira understood she wasn't allowed to get up and do the things she usually did in the morning for Kaena; she was to take care of herself, rest, and heal. The hybrid woman had been given a brand new perspective on the younger canine as of late; she was not useless, and Kaena would have defended Vieira against anyone who might have claimed she was. She was personally extremely useful to Kaena, and while perhaps that didn't add up to usefulness for the whole clan, Kae didn't care—it wasn't as if the tawny coyote was a drag on the clan's resources. Kaena fed her personally most days.
A voice at the entrance to the cave brought the silver-furred coyote's attention, her grizzled head snapping to the entrance. There was no mistaking that little added emphasis at the end; it was most certainly Cotl. Another scent wafted to her through the cave, and she realized it was his horse. They had an extremely distinctive scent, and though they looked like prey animals, they were actually quite powerful and quite useful when properly trained, and they were very dangerous to hunt unless one was a member of a large group. Not that she'd consider eating Cotl's horse—it was, after all, Cotl's, and he had obviously done a fair amount of work in training the horse and making it tame. The hybrid woman padded out to the entrance of her cave, already in her Optime form. The Centurion peered at the Cotl and then the horse, a smile showing up on her face, serving to evince her happiness at the visit.
"Hey, Cotl," she said, bobbing her head in a slight nod. "What can I do for you?" she asked, figuring on being a good hostess—she wasn't sure about letting Maschine into her cave, but it would be alright by her if Cotl came in, so long as he managed to keep relatively quiet for Vieira to continue sleeping. If the man had come to request her presence elsewhere, that was alright by Kaena, too—she hadn't been attending to anything important, obviously, and the hybrid woman had no particular plans for the day. Perhaps more wartime preparations were necessary, but even that grew old to Kaena after a while—there was only so much waiting around she could handle.
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