Larksong Grotto The first signs

Laurel noticed her sister's presence as she lingered in the background, and it only fueled her desire to be seen and heard even more. She needed to be not just for herself, now, but for Indra, too. Reek offered to play alongside her brothers, but she didn't want that. She wanted him all to herself, and would share Reek with nobody but In.

At first he accepted, but then he said the boys would join in too. Laurel's hackles rose as one of them drew nearer, and she bared her teeth in warning before turning back to her father. "No, I don't wanna play with them!" she objected with the sharp derision of a teen in pain. "You never look at us anymore since they're born." Exaggerated, perhaps, but it was how the girl felt. "We ditched mom for you, Reek.

"We —" That was when the other boy flung himself at her and started biting her, albeit playfully. Laurel turned around and yelled, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" at the kid. She tried to grab him wherever she was able to reach with her teeth and if she would succeed would try to fling him somewhere else, as far as she could; away from her, away from daddy.