She soothed herself with Conor’s aggression; if someone as seemingly peaceful as he could harbour such intense emotions, perhaps it was not strange that she also felt the same way. She knew she was scrambling for any way to justify her bloodthirst, but knowing there was someone else who felt something similar to what she was feeling helped. It helped a lot, but it also hurt. It pained her to know that the one luperci she could share this with was the son of the man she hated so much. It pained her to know her children, too, her products of this monster, and would soon be children of another monster, too. She felt intense regret at these thoughts and wondered how her children would ever forgive her: for what she thought and what she wanted to do.
Conor spoke again and Tayui nodded in response. She blinked, trying to refocus her attention to the conversation at hand. She did not know Gabriel had been the one to kill Haku; however, she supposed it felt right. She had wished Kaena would have gotten that honour, after what Haku had done to her. But she supposed having her son exact revenge was somewhat satisfying. She didn’t know how Kaena could live with ‘somewhat satisfying,’ though – even she was struggling with it. Though, knowing that someone in Inferni had killed the bastard helped a little. She almost smiled.
“I didn’t,” she replied. “That’s good,” she said distantly. “There were many who would have liked to kill him themselves though,” she added as an afterthought.