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Vitium was very much a mystery to Kaena; she did not understand him in the least. He had been raised the same as Gabriel, the same as Corona, as Rikka—there was nothing different about the dark-eyed wolf's childhood. Yet he was the one to throw her teachings away entirely; he was the one to preach against their defense. If they allowed one wolf to traipse across their lands unassailed they allowed many to trample their borders, in effect. Respect of coyote borders was not something wolves did willingly. Their larger cousins had ruled the forests and larger chunks of the lands, pushing their smaller cousins to a life of solitude and roaming. It was only with the advent of human cities that the coyotes had been able to take back their former lands and then some. In Kaena's mind this made them a far more adaptable species than the wolf—there were some places both canines could not survive, certainly, but the hybrid woman personally would prefer to have larger range than the ability to live in near-constant cold and snow as wolves occasionally did.
There was a faint smile on the coyote's muzzle, and she shook her head, again rolling her shoulders in a shrug. "Beats me. He's lucky to have walked away without bloodshed," the coyote said. Though she had been the one to actually expel him from their midst, Gabriel apparently kept up the punishment as well, finding his brother unworthy of admittance to the clan. Even if they had allowed Vitium amongst them, who would have kept him from turning on them? Who would have controlled him and made sure he did not pull the same traitorous bullshit he had the time before? The silver-furred woman held no sway over him; she had relinquished her motherly bond to him when she'd thrown him out of Inferni. That was not to say it did not hurt her to think of one of her sons so openly rejecting her, Inferni, everything... it simply was, and as a fact of life Kaena had to deal with it.
"Not to say Halo didn't try," the coyote added. Halo had charged at him seeming with every intent to behead her father and leave his blood sliding across the floor. "Who knows why Vitium does anything, anymore? From what I've gathered, Halo and her siblings were raised with positive regard to Inferni," the silver-furred woman said. This was the biggest part of the mystery; why would Vitium have innundated Halo and Enigma and Jael with positivity where Inferni was concerned, if the man himself was unwelcome there? "Don't suppose you've got any grandchildren to add to the tally," the coyote said, hope reflected in her voice. The hybrid woman was always hopeful when it came to expanding the family tree.
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