carve your name [challenge]

The song sent her stomach plummeting. A howl had rung out for Fiori; a challenge. Battlesong flew ahead as the silver timber Adravendi galloped across the terra, northward, skirting Argead's borders. The flooding of the rivers had gone down sufficiently to where she could cross with little trouble, and as her paws truck gravel on the other shore, she heard the heavy thunder of larger paws behind her. Regulus.

She had missed the last call on the field regarding her family. She didn't intend to make the same oversight again. So she only slowed long enough for her eldest to catch up before gaining pace again. They came onto the scene at the same time Leo arrived. Surreal took quick stock, noting several familiar faces among the throng that had gathered. Including her younger son. A pang slashed through her heart at the sight of him, yanking an involuntary gasp from her jaws before she forced herself to go to Epiphron. From the way he'd looked at his own kin at the claiming, she doubted he wanted to be touched by his own mother.

"Pip..." She started, but trailed off, for once not knowing what to say. What could she say? I'm sorry I wasn't there to kill Sin so your daughter would still be alive? She settled for turning her eyes to gaze at the partners of this dance. Leo, and a male that resembled the large female that stood beside a female that looked just like Pip, save for being tiny and having a soot colored paw in place of russet, and a bunny tuft of a tail. Amalia, then? Then, that would be Athena. Falk's sister.

Her eyes flicked between the male and Athena, and the confusion in her interestingly hued, dual toned eyes, and slowly she began to grasp the situation. Her mother hadn't raised an unobservant daughter, however much recent events might have made it seem.

There was nothing she could do in this instance except sit and hope Leo prevailed. Armada versus Adravendi again. Was it always to be that way? Beside her, she felt Regulus settle, vibrant coat catching hairs with her silver.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think