Sleeping Dragon i will do as devils do: fall

Portia gives her the information (and confidence) she needs to perform the ritual in front of her wolves. The four marks yet to tarnish her skin could be performed at the same time but to no benefit but the two remaining Seageda members and the kills were not in Drageda. Perhaps she can bring Gavriel and herself together to do it, as if to seal off their home, but the thought is thrown away quickly with something else taking to her mind. 

“Heda is always marked in front of her wolves, but the others may choose to mark in private, with their loved ones. It is a way to relieve the burden of our actions,” she explains, wondering if her mate might be willing to do it, finding the intimacy enough to suffice the former commanders that urge her to do the task. “It is a short ceremony and if you’re comfortable, I would like you to do it, but I would like you to prepare me some for something else, if you don’t mind.”