06-30-2009, 09:45 PM
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| http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/kae_disorder.jpg); background-position: bottom center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> Kaena herself had known the pain and violation of rape when she was very young, by one so close to her as her half-brother. No, they hadn't been raised together, and yes—he was a good few months her senior, but they were still family, and Kairo had contaminated that bond between them. She had been determined to avoid the same fate since, and she pitied the next creature who tried to take advantage of her in such a way. She would rip that man's soul from his very body and eat it. Salvaged had only suffered so because he had done it to so many—and that was her fault. Kaena had introduced the young wolf to sex, she'd bred the evil who had single-handedly inflicted a flood of cruelty onto the lands. She was responsible for him, and in the end, the ashen hybrid had fulfiled her commitment and put an end to the monster. The coyote listened to Jael, nodding all the while. As much as she couldn't change it, she was Delphine's child—nothing could change that. She had no mother, just a foggy memory of a vicious woman. Jael had a clear, definite memory of Vitium and his lies, and now he knew definitively that his father was a traitor to the blood from the very mother he'd spoken out against. The Lykoi offered another sad smile and squeezed him closer, tucking her muzzle over his. "But my blood runs in your veins, too," she reminded him, though it was a gentle one. He was like her—one parent who was stolen too soon, and one parent he did not want. Andre and Delphine, her father and mother. The hybrid listened to him with two sable ears, the tattered remnant of one closest to him. Salvaged had ripped and ravaged that ear, but she'd taken his eye from him, tit for tat. His words warmed her, and she nodded. It was the best course—for sure, Vitium would be back here, someday. Perhaps he would have enough wit to keep away from Inferni territory and his family. It was unlikely—blood called to blood, and especially with his youth here, he would want to come back someday, perhaps forgetting that his mother and brother would be waiting, witnesses to hise apostasy or maybe just hoping they'd forgiven him by then. "Right. He might not come back to Inferni for a long, long time," she agreed. "He knew better than that after he took you guys. But if he's anything remotely like the rest of us, he won't be able to stay away forever," the coyote said confidently. Most of her children had eventually returned, if only briefly. She did not want to think of Vitium as dead—but in truth, what was he to her? Her child, yes, but he'd spoken out against their attack of the wolves and especially against her—would he even hold respect to speak with her civilly, or would he simply attack her? She wondered, her heart aching. She deserved it from him; she'd thrown him out of Inferni as the Aquila, never for a second considering their blood relationship. But he'd trashed that bond himself when he'd attacked them with intent to draw blood and let that Aremys wolf slip away. Kaena didn't know what to think. |