Blackfeather Woods He-Who-Guards-Unseen

He took place beside his brother at the meeting, for it was his place — at Damien's right side, where he belonged. The famine had been harsh on Cicero, but his brother had ultimately saved him. It also helped that Malice and Burke were gone now, their pups too; they no longer needed the scraps he fed them. Or at least they were not near enough to receive them.

A lot had happened and although Cicero did not agree with all of it, he knew that it was Damien's place to stand at the head of Blackfeather Woods in Burke's absence. It was his place as Meldresi's child and the one who was most ambitious and fierce of the three of them. Cicero thought it his place to stand beside his brother, but that had been made clear enough to him. Whether he would act upon it now was up to him.

A place in the Brotherhood meant very little to Cicero — it was different for Sheogorath, but he was suppressed, had been for a while, might never even return — but he knew it meant a lot to Damien, and so he awaited the rituals to happen in silence. It was good to see Kove in a more respected place in the pack, for he deserved it, in Cicero's eyes; that was the only misstep that he felt Burke had committed, truly, to not put Kove in the place he deserved and to shun him and his child for so long without just cause.