Halo had gotten the taste for solitude when she had first come here and her brothers had left her behind. She had found the mansion abandoned and lived there with her rodents as her only companions. Luckily Kaena Lykoi had wandered into her path and allowed Halo to step into her warm embrace as kin and fellow clan member. She had always found comfort in the older woman, though for a long time it had been the only other member that she had interacted with regularly. Of course it was impossible to avoid every other clan member in the long run – this was not what she had done either – but she had failed to get well along with most of her fellow coyotes after her siblings had left her side. Then a family member had betrayed her trust and done this horrible thing to her and the girl worked very hard not to become completely antisocial and retreat back to her room never to come out into daylight again. Somehow she had found this way of coping and it was working. Her mind almost seemed to find peace at times and best of all: all the time she was slowly working her skills so that she would one day be able to retaliate for what the former loner and now clan member had done to her. Unacceptable. Ruby eyes did not reveal the hurt that deserved to see the light of day. She sought to push her full attention over to Gabriel and his doggish form, for it would be no good for thoughts to linger with memories that inflicted pain.
His answer was simple yet very helpful. The young woman gave him a nod and a sigh, though it was one of relief and not weariness. From the moment she had found Inferni’s borders and met with Gabriel de le Poer for the first time, she had wanted to prove her worth. She had been a child of mixed spirits and both her parents had been unworthy of Inferni membership. He had given her a chance and she had wished for him to see her for who she was for so long now. She felt honoured for being offered lessons in spears and his interest in her dedication. Her black and copper tail waves with genuine expression as the Aquila of Inferni even granted her a small smile. She was looking very much forward to this and ached for a stick this instance. She would run off to the woods south of the clan lands and find a suitable branch in the forest overtaken by arachnids. Halo was not too enthusiastic about the overpopulated spiders, but the weather was colder now and forced the eight legged creatures into hibernation or whatever they did to survive when winter kicked in. ”I will find one straight away,” the Lykoi announced with the brightest of smiles, suddenly eager to be dismissed so that she could run for the southern forest at once.