Totoka River knocking on the door

The Siren Queen's intensive studying was soon discovered -- but when the shroud-colored coywolf hailed her she did not look aside as if ashamed to be caught gazing. His query, alight with cheekiness, was met with the firm silence one would expect from a nun.

Despite the chastising quiet that spread between them, there was no visible indication to suggest the coywolf was offput by either his garrulous charm nor the quiet that followed it. Often, she found replies diminished the wit before them -- it was rare one could rebuke in a fashion that superseded the original proclamation.

But Caiaphas was rare -- in that she cared not for the rules of dictum or deportment. "I've seen drowned corpses I liked better." She replied at length, though no move was made to approach him.