Northstar Vale -- the stars, the moon, they have all been blown out

takes place after this thread, and leads to seabreeze's departure from the vale. feel free to join, just some sibling rivalry.

This post has been okayed by @Rannoch and so long as nobody pops in, will be kept short so I don't inflate post counts.

It wasn't long after Mattias' arrival in the Vale that he gathered his thoughts, his brooding anger, and decided that he would seek out the audience of his sister.  He had waited at first to see if she would come to him herself but a few days wait was enough for him.  Her cowardice was only making him angrier.

He raised his maw to the air and let out a low and chilly howl.  Although his soft-hearted sibling might have desired privacy for their conversation, he knew he would be tempted to punish her if they were alone.  His guard hairs stood on point as he waited to be graced with her presence, tail erect although he was in this pack a lower position than the siren.  He was not fond of the ethereal persona she had adopted to make herself at home in the Vale, so coy and intimate, but it seemed at least that she had been doing well.

To a point, it pleased him that she was making her way up the ranks so quickly, putting herself to use just like they had been raised.  Yet he wondered absently if she had earned it or if perhaps she were using alternate methods of climbing the totem pole, such as many women in Keening Sound had done — the Brienne he knew wouldn't, however this was not the girl he grew up next to; what was he to expect of her anymore?

He threw the thought aside.  It was a matter for another time, what his sister did with her womb mattered little to him at the moment — he wanted her justification for tearing their family apart.