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Vesper · 09-09-2012, 08:57 PM

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Vesper was a creature of pride, and such creatures tended to bear grudges when that pride was injured—or maybe Ves was just as petty as she thought she was. She was glad for one small victory, at least; she was in her lupus form, the same shape she’d been in the last time they had met, the natural shape. Her legs were stiff as she watched interaction between mother (she assumed, from scent and other cues) and child, and she suppressed a softer expression as the little boy obediently plopped down in the grass.

The red-pied female surprised her when she turned and directly addressed her, guessing immediately at her motives. Despite the woman’s diplomatic tone, the Infernian’s ears flicked back, and she snorted. “Yes,” she answered as directly as the other had spoken, cutting anything else from her words. Her blue eyes lingered over the dark little coyote-pup, and after a second she looked at the AniWayan with a small scowl. “That doesn’t answer my other question, though: whether you’ll allow him to come home.”

Her words were ambiguous, and she supposed that she meant both the pup and the adult Lykoi that this woman had led astray (although Ves only wanted the latter back for Helotes’ sake). Both belonged with their true family, the family that branched from the grey matriarch of the clan. They belonged there more than Vesper herself belonged there, she thought.

Her lip twitched, and she looked at the youngster again, this time not quite able to keep the amusement from her eyes. She might not have traditional maternal instincts, but the kid was pretty damn cute, she’d give them that. Deciding she was already pressing it by being here, she went a little further with a personal question: “How’d this end up happening, anyway?”

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