Blackfoot Forest Family portrait

Leto reeled backwards as she charged for him, scrambling up a log in his haste to get away from her snapping teeth. "Hey, hey, hey! Liri, stop that!" Leto shouted down at her, hoping to use the authoritative 'I'm in charge' voice from their younger days to stop her.

It didn't seem to work, she came charging for him again. Leto's face blanked as she answered his question, the blood draining from his face and chilling his veins. "She died?" The joking was gone from his face for once, leaving only a hushed whisper full of grief to escape him.

Leto felt her words like a knife, twisting into his heart. He did nothing to stop her from digging her teeth into his shoulder, the pain was nothing compared to the overwhelming shame he felt.

Leto seemed to snap out of it, shaking his head and shaking his sister off him. "Stop that, what's the matter with you? I'm still your brother. Liri, what happened to you? You were never like this as a pup?" Liri had always been so meek, so shy as a child. What had changed?