Stone Circle so i'll follow the birdsong

to move this along, i am proposing that the pups be skipped (minus ephraim, who just got childed) -- sorry children, even if its agiinst ur sivil rats -- also, skipping illecebra with OOC permission

caiaphas might, had she been younger or less tired, have spoken up -- as it was, her mate had already spoken on their behalf, and explained the sorry lot's grim exodus. may grimnismal burn, for all caiaphas cared -- her only course now was for her children.

she kept her mien subdued, and her head low -- though she did note the slender curve of valette's stomach, the tuck of strained muscles that suggested motherhood. somehow, she hoped that valette's recent sojourn into childbirth might garner sympathy for them; after all, they were wretched displaced from their home.

the sylph, ragged and bone tired as she was, watched with hawkish disapproval as one of her children lunged for the corpse gracefully supplanted at her feet. any other time, she would have let his misbehavior (if it could even be called that -- truly, such a motion was justifed, as the child was starved as any) slide, as she often favored indomitable spirit in a wolf -- but now, in front of the eyes of wolves that might see fit to turn her away, caiaphas lunged after her errant son and attempted to pluck the meal right from his teeth with a quiet growl meant to discipline him.

later, when their fate had been decided, caiaphas would dispense a meal evenly between her children and would have forgotten this unfortunate acting out . for now, she sought to wrench the kill from her son's jaws and, if successful, throw it at the easthollow wolves' feet. it would do no good to eat something without permission;

good god, she hoped they gave them permission.