failsie is fail
For her weakness, there was no punishment; self-loathing and blame seemed the extent of that. She had not failed in her duties, not since the beginning of the war—she had done enough to keep her place within the clan. Even so, in her deepest subconscious the silver-shaded canine knew she had not done enough. She had not pursued him, she had not left the clan to place herself in danger rather than them. Would Haku have even chased her? She did not know; his hatred might have focused on her, or it might have been more important to him to destroy Inferni. The silver-shaded woman could not guess at his motivations and she did not want to; she, of all creatures, was least immune to the infectious darkness lurking in him.
Her own eyes, whole and complete and embedded into a face that might have belonged to a stranger, gazed at her. For all of the reflections of herself she saw in her children and grandchildren, there was none here—Ahren reflected more clearly in his son's features than his mother's, certainly. He was silent—no trouble, no news, no fucking change. Disappointment reflected on the scarred canine's features, though this was not disappointment in her son—how could she hold against him what she herself was not capable of doing?
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