Moonspear i will take the sun in my mouth & leap into the ripe air

as soon as it had happened, it was all over. kukutux kept head down as hydra addressed her, speaking a name that reminded her vaguely of the ranks at courtfall.

when she looked up again, it was into a tension that shimmered almost tangibly from the beta, something unspoken between himself and hydra. 

his eyes had lost their warmth, she noted, but kukutux refused to quail. demurely, carefully, she gathered her pelts and followed arcturus silently through the snows to the place she could not pronounce, a sudden grief chilling her veins.