Chimera Fields You know you feel like dyin’

Hydra truly had not yet come to a decision, not entirely; she could not without meeting the other, after all, and she was not a hasty woman. As for his question, Hydra's eyes flashed with some thinly veiled amusement. Hydra was not an arrogant woman to think herself invincible, and never boasted of her own capabilities to any. She preferred to show rather than tell, and she never would understimate who she would ever come across in her lifetime. Girl or not, Hydra would not think that she had no ability at all. Others had seen fit to follow her lead after all, and so the Ostrega imagined that she had to carry some sort of strength to be respected as such. 

All the same, Hydra had been here for several years. And she was a possessive woman. While she did not mind sharing the wealth of power in kinder times (Moonspear was large enough on its own, after all), these past few months dictated her actions now. Hydra truly preferred to move in silence... even now. Still, he had asked. I would be disappointed, she drawled, and I do not like to be disappointed. The amusement had all but disappeared then as she looked to him then. 

She so hoped the girl was smart enough to know better. To understand that in these dire times, she could not hope to be an equal among them in this Wilderness; her followers could trust her enough to be led by her, but Hydra herself was several years her senior—Vengeance, too (years the girls senior, that is)—and though it was true those her age were incapable and not at all deserving of their station, any doubt as to her abilities she would be swift to put out, however she must. How could Hydra, who had led for years even prior to her final ascension, look to a child in times of hardship? That was not to say that Hydra would not consider the wisdom she had earned that life had given her, or disrespect her... but listen to her as an equal? 

Hydra and Vengeance both, independently, could show the other that she was, as of yet, no such thing. 

The young girl would have to prove she had the strength and the merit both to sit alongside them. A part of their counsel, certainly, to partake... ideally to become well-learned, too. Hydra herself did not think she herself had nothing to learn, either. The matriarch was always learning. Even now. 

Hydra listened as he spoke of not yet having enemies, and nodded to him... that made things a little smoother, at least. Ideally they would come to have none. Though their history once had those that made enemies of Moonspear, such wolves who had said as much were gone from the Wilds now... and Moonspear had never thought of them as a threat either. The time for that had passed, and thus a new alliance was born when Terance had come to lead. These thoughts were fleeting ones that went as swiftly as they came.