Sawtooth Spire This city's gonna break my heart.

Ciri continued to bristle, clearly unhappy beneath the rodent's gaze and even more so that her mother refused to partake in removing it from their rendezvous. The lioness watched with quiet amusement, shifting to lower herself onto the ground. "You're the one he's bothering," Nyx told her daughter as she gave a roll of her peppered shoulder in a disinterested shrug, "so you make him go away."

As much as she wanted to baby her children, she knew it could not always be so. It was important for them to grow into strong and independent young wolves, and Nyx knew that she would be the one to teach them how.