There was a strange relief in the dark woman at his simple answer, free of ifs and buts and demands. He would follow her, as she thought he would, and they could continue this seemingly fruitless quest for further children. Eris was not so easily discouraged, and the shadowy hybrid did not wish to give up so easily on further children, strong and proud and made of herself and Larkspur. There were others who would suit her nicely, but their blood would not mix together quite so cleanly, she suspected. Sirius was half-coyote, and Ouija, dear to her as he was, was part of a different branch of D'Angelo, one kept distant to Larkspur and Misery both, matching reality to their blood relation. Her hand stretched for him, faltering just an instant as he posed the question, though she continued reaching and stroked the fur of his mane appreciatively, her chartreuse eyes still wandering over him in a guise of pleasure.
“Yes,” she said. It was not whispered in quiet but spoken in confidence. She allowed the following silence to speak what she would not -- Sirius's mind was what had propelled him to leadership rather than his body; without saying, it went that she then valued Larkspur's body over his mind. “You would hold a rank of high esteem, of course,” she added, sniffing this as if it needn't be said; in truth, perhaps it hadn't. Mate or not, father of the leader's children -- for certainly, Eris had presumed the children would accompany her, Larkspur or not -- would hold a high rank in their midst, as per the laws and culture that had begun to take shape between Sirius and herself.
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