Cedar Sweep Secrets keep you awake

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Chusi assures him that she understands that she is not a prisoner within the Strath and Arturo responds with a small nod of his head that silently speaks what he does not: good. She is nearly an adult now, if not already an adult — for the gangster is still unaware of his (adopted) daughter’s birthday — and the fact was that she had the freedom to roam. The truth was that while she no longer needed his permission to make journey’s outside of Teaghlaigh he would like her to spend time learning how to lead: how he expected leaders of The Family to operate. While he valued opinions of his fellow leaders his word was law, at the end of the day whether they disagreed or not. If that fact could not be handled then he would be quick to take leadership from them. Perhaps this does make him a tyrant but he holds certain expectations of his leaders. Expectations that are not all that different from the expectations he holds of any within his Family. The coywolf’s mentality has always been tenacious and unyielding. It is what has gotten him this far in his life and he has no immediate plans of abandoning his tenaciousness, nor of releasing his iron fist.

Arturo takes a deep breath and lets it out in an exhale as the pair continues towards their unknown destination taking in her word that she would never resent Teaghlaigh with contemplative silence. Once upon a time Arturo did not believe that; but regardless of if it was true or the future had different plans the truth remained that Chusi was an adult and she would no longer be coddled as if she is a babe like the four young Lotturo’s nestled as Lotte’s breast. She knows the consequences for her actions, has seen first hand how ugly situations can become first hand. She has witnessed the merciless justice system of The Family. Nothing in those chaotic series of events had left Arturo any joy: from Olive and Dakarai’s words of treason to the appearance of Blackfeather Woods, to banishing them from Teaghlaigh with the threat that if they were ever seen in the Tuktu Hinterlands by any Teaghlaigh member that it would mean death. Spanning the entire Hinterlands was impossible, of course, but if they were wise they would give Teaghlaigh the wide berth that it’s ruthless Ceannasach demanded. “Special?” The Fearghal patriarch repeats with a rise of his brow as he catches that word as she explains as to why she has waited to explore the territories around the Strath, eager to focus his thoughts on the present for spending quality time with his daughter is infinitely much more happier than dwelling on the recent, dark past of Teaghlaigh. Those events are past and the present demands Arturo's attention.

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