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Her fingers tapped against the padded palms of her russet hands while she wondered about her cousin. There was little she was truly interested in, but those outside of her upper Lykoi crust were not part of it; still, the exotic jackal left the elder de le Poer curious. As she sent her crimson eyes to the sky, her thoughts all divulged onto one solid question that went unasked. Instead, the words that escaped her echoed a picture in the twinkling stars. A rabbit. Sepirah agreed, after allowing her golden gaze to reach the same dark sky. Staring at the stars brought vague memories of her youth back to the front, a youth she rarely thought of. Stargazing was often a love of all children.
The dark female saw a snake, though her cousin saw an eel; their differing opinion made her turn her face back to the world. "Someone once told me that stars are the souls of the dead who went to heaven," she murmured. Myron had told her many things, and his piece of wisdom about the night left her comforted by the appearance of the twinkling silver. Even if it wasn't true, even if she couldn't believe it, the thought was nice. Very nice. The russet female crossed her arms beneath a worn ribcage, letting her head fall to the side. Auburn curls followed the motion with a jaunty bounce. "Do you always creep around in the darkness, little Lykoi?"
In truth, the older female was afraid of the dark, of the shadows that spawned when the sun fell below the horizon. Within them hid ghosts meant to harm; Talitha simply couldn't handle the possible strain on her mind. Especially not when she saw him again, the golden eyed dead who had ruined the world to his niece's innocent gaze. A shudder ran the length of the woman's spine at the thought of Andrezej.
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