Her small face hardened as the woman--Nyx--spoke of Potema. "I don't know," she snapped, her tone acerbic. "I just. . .it's my name." She looked down, shuffling her feet. "Sorry. My mother and I don't like each other. That's all."
Maegi's eyes rose to meet Nyx's once more, as she slowly got over the slight the woman had given her by even bringing the priestess into the conversation. "Okay, guess," she said smartly, one corner of her mouth lifting in a crooked half-smile.
"She might not live here anymore, though," Maegi added, after hesitating for a moment on whether to voice the clue or not. "I looked for her, but I can't find her."
She thought a minute, wondering. Maybe she wasn't a good daughter, either. But how could she have been? True, she hadn't tried to reach out to Potema. . .but she knew that if she had, she would have been rebuffed every single time. Maegi thought Nyx was just being polite to her own mother, and wasn't actually telling the truth.
"Why doesn't Vaati like you?" Maegi asked, perplexed. She knew her brother to be sort of grumpy, but this woman didn't seem like the type to get under his skin. She was a child of the night, a denizen of this dark place. Surely only outsiders deserved his ire.
One ear twitched, dismissing the thoughts. Nyx would answer if she liked, and if not, perhaps she'd bother Vaati about it. "So what do you do?" she queried, curious. It was something she asked everyone; she was obsessed with knowing what uses people had. "Everybody does something. What do you like to do?"
She shrugged, shaking her head. Kove wasn't a familiar name to her; he must be one of the scents adorning the forest she didn't recognize, or else he wasn't here at all, just like her mother. Feeling more than a little empathy for Nyx, she cuddled up next to her with a wistful sigh.
"Tell me more about being an assassin," Maegi pleaded softly, looking up at the girl's pretty face. "Have you killed anybody yet?"
A dark query, from a wolf so young. That was, though, the way of Blackfeather. And it wouldn't get any brighter than this.
again, sorry for keeping you waiting. fading here