Dragoncrest Cliffs fuck a 9 to 5

it's easy when she's keeping busy. things are fine, after all. she's got her mate and she's got her kru and they are, somehow, continuing forward. ajatar will be heda, and ajatar is fine, blix realized a while ago that one day she'd have to follow ajatar as heda. 

but then she remembers that nomi died before blix could tell her about mallaidh, and that ajatar, for all that she is admirable, is not nomi, and eastwood and artaax have both just -- vanished -- and things are less fine.

these are things she cannot share with her pack. she's never been as good at compartmentalizing as her brother (who, she believes doggedly, will be back. when he's .. processed.) so she keeps busy, and everything is fine. verx's call summons her from patrol, not too far off from the cheka. she makes her way toward the lake until she sees him, and straightens up -- in the wake of nomi's death, she's been trying to adopt a more formal style of leadership, as if to fill the space left by nomi's austere presence. "what is it?" she asks, taking a seat near by.