Altar of Twilight i keep ending up here

he resisted an eye roll at her over-the-top coquettish behavior. perhaps as a yearling, he would have been swayed. as it was, aditya was in his fourth winter, much too old to be led blindly by the balls by a girl in her first.

aditya was so engrossed in picking apart her body language that her words did not sink in for a long moment. (perhaps he was not so insusceptible, after all.) "slayed. . .did you say caldera?" he asked increduously, golden eyes widening.

now this was a new development. last he had heard, the caldera and moonspear were banded together against the threat from the dark southern pack. was this a ploy by the latter to tear the former two apart? or had enmity really grown between the once allies?

"i am very sorry for your loss," he said, eyes softening--he now felt bad for his internal scorn of a short minute ago. "it is terrible, to lose a sibling." affected words, from an only child, though he did mean it.