WORD COUNT→363—BONDING. I think.
She could never approve of the Auxiliary's choice in a mate, but she could respect the attempt to mother the children of a single male; even the golden coyote, raised in a place where many offspring were key to both survival as well as status, knew she would prefer children created from the efforts of a single man. Even as she looked upon Eris' family with distaste, the Eternity's made better only by the presence of the females they held, there was an appeal to the Kimaris female in seeing true family — as it stood, she had no such prospects, though she was in no hurry to be tied down. There were no options were she willing to follow in the Princess Emeritus' footsteps. For the briefest moment, she turned her face away to hide faint longing; she wold have to hurry if she wanted to make her father proud, for Imacai had left his siblings and she was certain he would take her glory first.
The request made of the Crone was both surprising and confusing; Eris had the same capabilities as the younger woman, and perhaps she understood the practices better herself. There was no reason she would have had to ask. She was the Queen of the Salsolian outcasts, the family she had carefully created, and needed no such help from others. In fact, Eris' place within the home gave her the freedom to do as she pleased, without the need of blessing or permission. And the coyote made it clear how she felt about the D'Angelo beast; so why was she asked? Her shoulders raised in a sigh, fiery eyes closing while petite features turned toward the ground. "Aye do not ahpprove aft this, ahnd aye do not believe aye evar will, but you ahre my sistar. Aye cannot say no." In Eterne, blood was the thickest bond, but Tlantli had found it in other places through her time outside of the insular civilization. Eris and Tlantli were as different as the night and day, a Queen of the shadows and Princess of the sun, but the Kimaris woman saw nothing wrong in seeing the beautiful hybrid as family.
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