Missing from the photographs

The gentle patter of pawsteps, carrying a small, delicate body, alerted the alphess of her sister's arrival. Her cranium swivelled around for her scarlets to meet a soft gaze of moss green. Reddish eyes explored the rest of the girl's features - the smooth chestnut fur wrapped around kind eyes and lips curved in a smile. She looked better overall. Much better than that day she found her among the plains. A happy sort of whine escaped those lips as she approached the larger girl. Well, she never liked to address herself as 'girl'. It was childlike, certainly not fit for a queen. My, when had she grown so regal? "I wanted to ask how you've been settling into Myriad," she told her sister in a subdued murmur. "Have you seen Ren and Nixie around?" She hadn't seen much of their siblings either, and a part of her was worried for them. Ren hadn't attended Jackson's hunt or Riv's fight training. Was it because of her affair with Rivaxorus? Was that why he was shutting the world out? No, surely it couldn't be.