Phoenix Maplewood phantom bruise

She watches with much the same expression she always wears - carefully closed off from emotion, as if guarding the precious treasures of her thoughts - much the same expression Shivali wears as she blinks an eye open at her absently. The wild girl harbors little feeling or attachment to any of nanuk's siblings, having either not met them or having been unimpressed by her first encounter. Her loyalty rests with him but the empath is beginning to sense his attachment to her extends only to a pretty face. 

Such tentative trust is easily swayed and she finds she admires the whelping sister for such fierce regard of her young - including one who is not of her flesh nor is specifically her child. Her head dips, though the smile she is offered is unreturned - it seems some time before the timid tundrian will easily smile. 

For the first time, her voice makes an appearance, albeit a rather soft appearance, to an Ateneq that is not nanuk."Is there anything you need? For your children?" Outside of the ever pressing requirement to feed them, the pups seem a safe topic - anything else to leave her maw would sound false - so tapeesa offers anything within her capability as an olive branch to Shivali.