The conversation devolved into soft sentences and clipped answers, and Vesper could feel the discomfort prickling under her thin tawny fur. She wanted very suddenly to leave, but she didn’t want to admit defeat to this AniWayan luperci, no matter what else she did or how her interrogation ended. She might’ve even been content with Claudius running across her and driving her away—well, no, not really, but every second spent here made her regret coming.
At least she had her answers, though. She would expect for Jacinto to come home once the child was of age (whatever that meant; honestly, no pup needed a father to raise them), and she would brand him a traitor if he didn’t return. She supposed that, as a leader of the fire clan, she was allowed to do so—but the more forgiving Myrika might override that declaration. She wondered if she shouldn’t be more like her lover; it wasn’t as if Jac had done harm, although he had left behind a mate (a former mate? she didn’t know) when he abandoned them, and a brother as well.
Her muzzle wrinkled with a hint of distaste when the pied coydog answered, only because she couldn’t imagine being depressed enough to sleep with someone besides her Aquila—though, maybe if something befell Myrika, she might want some sort of comfort? She just hoped she never found out.
“Well,” Vesper said, and stepped backwards as a sign that she was done bothering the woman. Her blue eyes lingered on the big-eared little cub, and after a second a hesitant smile crossed her scarred face. “He’s very cute,” she told the AniWayan, “so I guess something good came of your union.” She cleared her throat then, hesitant to leave even though she’d been raring to disappear for the past few minutes now. Her gaze lingered on the dark puppy before she finally dipped her head to the woman, muttered a farewell, and headed off well away from the tribal borders toward home.
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