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All the world had fallen silent to her ears, except for the rhythmic rampant beat of her heart. The spoken words of her mate chilled her to her heart with a terrible icy grip that made the frigid slush beneath her feet seem warm. She was rendered immobile, eyes wide and maw tightly clasped in silent shock as she was face with not his front, but his back. And the weight of his words truly sank in, she felt the heavy flesh of her ears fall against her head as the whole of her towering stature soon followed suit. He couldn’t have meant that, desperately she tried to reason. He wouldn’t let this temporary punishment forsake what plans they had made together and dash their anticipations of the future. Had they meant nothing? Were they but words that he would let this obstacle stop him from moving forward? Would his ego keep him blind to what she had intended to do? Beyond a sliver of a doubt she wished to bring clarity to him, to make him see as she did and realize her ruling was no different than that which she asked of the Dawn Alpha for this trespass of his subordinate; punishment for a crime.
But no words came to her aid even as his back thread further away from him and she was left feeling more cold and alienated than when she had left her family in her own ambitious pursuits. Her froze lips dared to part with a call of the tip of her tongue, but was silenced of her own volition. No. Her lips closed as she turned from his retreating form and looked to the unfeeling face of her friend- the title, she felt now lost its applicability. She would not beg either of them to consider her side. Their choices were of their own…regardless of their standing to her.
She neither said anything to the wounded woman as she as well took her leave of the meeting, dismissing whatever else the Tenryu might have had to say to tend to her own musings. And when the steps of the pair receded and there was only the still air and the quiet of the falling night, the Nomad habitually reached down and grabbed the tail end of her braid and brought its bothered end to her lips. For a moment, she said nothing more and simply let the words of her announcements replay in her head as well as let the magnitude sink into the listening ears of Ichika. She feathered her muzzle lightly taking a strange comfort to such a simple ministration as she breathed in her own unique scent still mingled with that of her mate. As she became calmer and felt her heart beat comfortably again, rejuvenated by the warm blood coursing through her body, she brought herself to stand as straight as she had before and brought her head to rest with purpose upon her shoulders. She glanced from the bothered braid to the remaining faces of Ichika’s whole, lingering upon each one, even the pups before lifting her gaze to look beyond them to the lands that resided behind them.
“A word from anyone else?”