JOIN · homecoming

<style type="text/css">q {font:13px Georgia; color:#9E0853; font-weight:bold;}</style>Her frown maintained its distrust as the other female's eyes combed her body. Though Lethe did not issue a direct challenge with the snag and lock of gazes, Jinx nonetheless felt her throat itch with an irate growl. She held the advantage here. It was not beneath her to force another wolf down, even if they were otherwise behaving correctly... Jinx even went so far as to take one step toward the tawny fem, only for the words to bring her to a cold and abrupt halt.

That voice... She remembered. That voice had belonged to one of the wolves who had refused to submit to Kaskae and herself, and had resultantly taken their leave of Shearwater Bay and, as far as Jinx was concerned, Sos and Atka.

As are you, she returned, now that familiarity warmed her blood, but it was not the warming of camaraderie. Lethe had dealt a grievous insult to Jinx and her sister in leaving, enough that temptation briefly overrode sense as Jinx toyed with the idea of forcibly removing the other wolf's presence. But it wouldn't do... It was not advantageous to allow simple rivalry to stand between her and the upper echelons of Akhlut's ranks.

Kaskae holds it, she revealed with a smug curl of her lips that suggested that they had won. As I remember, you would have none of it. You would be awed to see the pack now. Truth be told, she wished she was still there as well, far from these Kesuk-Nereides and their bastard faith, far from Hawkeye and her false claims, and far from Pied, especially. Far from her own failure in Bon Dye, though it couldn't be said that Jinx thought she had failed. Rather, she was still of the mind that the wolves had failed her. Shearwater Bay's glory had been returned by the girls and their return to expression of their faith, particularly when Tartok and Wintersun had left the region.

Now, what do you want? she wondered, tone silky as she padded forward to crowd Lethe's space. She maintained a neutral expression, however; it was a test of tolerance, nothing more. Why should I abide a wolf such as you, that challenges a pack's rightful rulers? Lethe had not issued a direct challenge, mind... But her departure, her refusal to submit, had been challenge enough.