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The scent of Gabriel kept the ghosts away, but the night still sank into the mind of the de le Poer princess. She was alone. Or so she thought. A living shadow approached, black pelt far different from the silver and gold she saw more frequently in members of her family, but it was no stranger. Sepirah Lykoi, a movement in the dark and a strange creature. Her golden gaze parted the black night that surrounded them in the tunnels of the caverns.
"Hello, Talitha."
"It's been a while."
"Are you lost?"
Her cousin's words came in fragments, distorted by a panic that skimmed the surface of her mind. The coyote's ears twitched, head jerking to the sound. Her crimson eyes, shared amongst members of the Massacre bloodline, found the Lykoi eyes with ease. They stood out in stark comparison amongst the darkness that enveloped the jackal woman.
"Lost. No. Not lost," she murmured. The Massacre eyes slid from the younger woman in silent surveillance of the caves. Yes, they were alone. Her posture relaxed. "I decided to leave the manor. Father is a more comfortable alternative to Cotl Ulrich." The sentence was light in tone, punctuated with laughter that was hollow.
In one fluid movement, she pushed herself to her feet, fingers curling against her palms. Her skull was throbbing. She raised a tawny hand to push curled chestnut locks from her eyes, a subtle preening gesture she underwent each hour of each day.
"And you, little Lykoi. It has been a while." Though Sepirah was not truly 'little', the older woman's practice of withholding the names of her pack mates reigned over whatever preference that each individual pack member held. The Inferni princess gave the jackal a subtle smile, rooted in familial affection that was handed out to who she deemed the fringe edges of the worthwhile component of the Lykoi troupe.
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