Stone Circle lookin' for a mind at work

She listened quietly to her sister, and her heart turned - with pain, with longing, with anger. For everything Desna had gone through, she deserved someone good, someone worthy. Someone Steady had seemed to be - and someone Nanook was beginning to believe Ezekiel was not. Whoever came after him would have to be someone better. A pointed grunt puffed through her nostrils to express her frustration.

But her sister had a habit of spinning her head around to rabbit trails she wouldn't have followed on her own, and quickly, the pent-up anger turned to an uncertainty as to what she was supposed to say to Desna's very girly wishes. "But we're not even finished with these ones yet," she said and slicked her ears at a nervous angle, "and for pups to happen by spring, wouldn't you need someone, you know... showing you advances... already?" She was no expert on love, but having watched the going ons of many, the process didn't seem like one to traipse into all willy-nilly. "I just don't want you jumping in with the next guy you see just because you want more kids."

She wondered if her words would come off as too harsh, but decided against retracting her statement. Nanook didn't want her sister hurting herself again like she had when she'd leapt in with Ezekiel. The outcome was bittersweet, and she probably would have let Valette do it again if it was the only way to get Clary, Steph, and Ezra into their lives, but the situation was one she hoped her sister would learn from, and wouldn't have to face again.