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aure translates it for her, informing blodreina that it is her native language's form of hei. she purses her lips in acknowledgement but offers nothing else; and it would seem her silence earned her a continuation of language lessons. blodreina is silent, giving aure half of her attention with a flick of her ear that suggests she is listening. she does not absorb the words the pale sylph speaks though. there was no kind way to say that she really didn't care. she is kru and if not for the fact that it was a necessary evil she wouldn't even bother speaking common. anyone who was kru born could speak it fluently and if they weren't then it was of her opinion that they'd learn. or they'd flounder and fizzle out. perhaps blodriena was of a much more traditional mindset when it came to her culture — and she liked to think that this mindset also grouped her own mother in with those she would consider outsider would soften the blow, make it seem much less personal because it could definitely be misconstrued into being taken personally.

no. you don't understand, blodreina agrees waspishly. we didn't just lose our alpha. our commander is so much more. they aren't just the leader of drageda. they are the commander of the kongeda. they rule all the clans. there are leaders for the individual clans to handle local issues and keep the hierarchy in order but they all answer to the commander. the commander is what keeps the kongeda united. we need a commander or the kongeda stands to fall as wonkru. it was so much bigger than just drageda.

and not anyone can be commander. the spirits of the past commanders must choose the next heda. only fos goufa's — single born children — are eligible. blodreina doesn't think she has to explain to aure how rare a single born pup is. there hasn't been a fos goufa born in drageda ever. there were two i know of from other geda's ...but who knows if they're still alive. if they are they have to fight one another to the death. the winner of sadgeda will then carry the spirits of the past commanders and become the next heda. for other packs the passing of an alpha is simple. it doesn't effect a whole nation of packs.

if you call yourself kru then you should know these things. you should learn our ways and preach them to your children. or else... there was no sense of staying in drageda as far as blodreina was concerned. become kru in it's entirety or get out ( this was why she made a terrible fleimkepa, lmao ). this is our way. these are things that you and all newcomers need to learn.