Moonspear blood of the dragon

With tired eyes, he tracked the arrivals of the others. Vela's warranted a cant to his head when she came closest to him, but ultimately, he decided he very much welcomed his littermate's company--despite the distances that had spanned between them lately. For half a second there, it almost seemed like before to him; maybe like before she had gone even, before the family had splintered worse. He blinked this away when Hydra spoke, and he was all ears.

He didn't find it in himself to disagree. In fact it was all in line with what he had expected and roughly operated with anyway, now without their parents. He had come to respect Dirge enough and naturally fell in line behind the more experienced male, plus Arcturus had the moxie, with a bit more stability than Revui--so that was an inevitable position being filled by someone they could hopefully trust to fit into some respect nicely. Jarilo said nothing, only nodding softly mostly to himself.

The oldest son didn't have the energy right now to consider his precise place in the grand scheme yet, too distracted by what hurt him still and still adjusting to the shift of Hydra as their peak, with Dirge beside her. There was a lot that needed to situate and settle around him before he could know for sure what he should do. He did wonder what she meant by things being different now, if it only referenced the obvious that he could discern, or if there was more--which certainly wouldn't surprise him, considering lately. He would have to wait and see.

But, he trusted her, and not only because his parents had groomed her for this. He wasn't blind to their treatment of her, how she had handled it, grew with it especially in his more recent moons.. and especially since he liked to consider himself close enough to their mother to understand--he was never near in the same way that Hydra was for them though. Jarilo could only imagine what else had come before him, too.. but it had always been pretty obvious to him growing up that somehow, this was simply inevitable.

Now more than ever and after he saw what they had done to each other, he had to trust them, and her, Hydra, with all the support he had. This was what they had wanted so that was what he would protect.

He knew what he had to do in the meantime; it was going to have to be a lot like last year, just more vigilant, more keen, and with less room for error now with puppies back on the mountain. At the very root of it all, they were suddenly down two experienced wolves this summer and with a lot to defend here soon. Not only were they in charge of strengthening Moonspear's numbers, strength, and reach simultaneously, but they were left to guard the Spear now too.