Ouroboros Spine even atlas cannot stand forever

It comes as a light surprise to her when the boy reveals he had previously lived within the dark woods, though surely not within her time of reign. She would have remembered him. However, as he goes on the nature of his residence within the dark woods becomes apparent to her, and the wraith doubts internally that he was ever truly one of the dark woods, or knows as much as he thinks he does about them. She glances to his shoulder. He did not bear the red mark, nor did the stain of it haunt his pelt. The way he talks of the woods does not hold the same meaning within his tone as it does in her's for she, bearing witness to its very essence of totalitarian destruction, knew better than to shrug them off as irrelevant to the forces of the outside world, despite how far they may have fallen following her departure. The woman does not care for them, but she does not underestimate them. If he escaped the woods as he suggests and still stood standing before her, it proved very little of the other's ability to free himself but rather, the dark wood's lack of interest in hunting him down. She herself had led many manhunts for those who mattered, who were important enough to the secrecy of Blackfeather as an entirety to make sure they never escaped, to never live on in betrayal of the Brotherhood as a whole. But she does not bother to correct his beliefs as she sees them, he is too young to fully grasp the severity of creating an enemy out of the dark woods, and perhaps did not know at the time what he had done in betraying them.

Instead, he seemingly disregards their capabilities in the way he speaks of them, something rather foolhardy if one was truly familiar with the caution one was to hold when turning their back on the Blackfeather. Even the monarch as of now would not be so haughty as to believe she was free from them, for once entrapped by the woods, one was never truly free from its memory. "And what did the woods do to you to earn your ire?" She is curious about where his individual hatred of the dark woods stems from, to fully understand exactly what she was getting into by conversing with someone who was pitted against the woods and the people she had very little interest in revisiting. 

Abruptly, the wraith lets out a hollow cackle at the boy's revelation of exactly of whom caused Blackfeather's strife, unsurprised at the discovery. "That is not surprising to hear. Potema's young have been trouble to me since their birth, and now to you. How unfortunate." There is a bitter, through-the-teeth grit in her tone and she tenses, recalling the times she had condemned their conception, their birth, and their continued existence. It was simply ironic that it would be a son of Potema's, a child who was never meant to be born and whom she had longed to end so long ago, would be the destruction of them as a whole. Perhaps she would stick around only to witness their downfall, collect what was her's, and return to where other's allegiance to her was true and strong. But the matter of roaming the Teekon unguarded during what appeared to be a conflict of life and death was a risk the woman feels is all too great, and the thought passes through her mind of trading years worth of information on the dark woods, Blackfeather, and the Dark Brotherhood in exchange for a place within the ranks that opposed her former home, where she could do about her business with the safety net of those behind her.