Herald

Ooc: trying to move Justice forward so I can actually post with her again, so I'm being vague about the details. Doesn't really matter which Ancoras show up because she doesn't really know any of them anyway lol.

The events up in the north had coagulated into a a deep numbness.

Her father was dead.

Justice felt set adrift, like a boat that had slipped it's moorings with no rudder. She was only a yearling. She shouldn't be without both parents already in her life. All the while she had been away from Celestial as a pup, it had been her determination to see her family again that had kept her going forward. It had been hard to find, upon her return, that her mother was catatonic and her father was distant. But knowing he was dead, knowing what had happened to him and to Valor... it changed things. She felt numb, but beneath the numbness lurked a tingling, hot feeling worming it's way slowly through the numbess. Lurking just beneath the surface.

With Valor safely in Paladin's paws she had begun to feel useless and ill at ease. She wasn't trained as a healer, as much as she wanted to be, and she felt helpless to do anything for Valor. She felt... trapped, there, and restless, as though there were something she should be doing that she couldn't quite grasp. So for something to do, she had taken it on herself to let the rest of the Ancoras know about Creed's passing. She knew he had been close to some, though she hadn't ever met any of her relatives. Valor had, though, and so had Fable, but since he had abandoned them when she had needed him she couldn't get him to show her the way. Instead she had spoken with Valor and gotten the best directions he could remember.

Which apparently hadn't been great, or she was just not good at following them, because it had taken her quite a while to find this place. She hadn't brought anyone from the pack with her- she didn't want the company. She wanted to be alone, wrapped in that numbness. It was Ancora business anyway, and with Fable gone and Paladin being the pack's only really active healer, and Valor and Exodus both still recovering from their own ordeals, that really only left her to go alone.

Justice sat on the edge of the borders for quite some time in silence. She was reluctant to call for anyone, because if she called she would have to explain why, and putting it into words would make it more real. But finally she lifted her head to call for the Ancora... aunt? Cousin? She really didn't know, and hadn't asked Valor for a name either. It hadn't been important to her at the time.