and then she DIED

Watching as his siblings tussled over the bone, Eligos wasn't expecting the big male to move suddenly, slamming a paw down. Eli jumped in wide-eyed startlement, barely keeping himself from an unmanly squeak of alarm. Apollo's admonition on their behavior sounded vaguely threatening, though it wasn't the 'if you survive' part that alarmed him so much as the idea that this adult would take offense to his behavior and tell Malleus that he'd been bad. Eligos swallowed and sat up straight, determined to get a good report regardless of what the male was teaching. The story he went on to tell them was a familiar one for Eligos, but told differently enough that it almost seemed like a new story. He ended with a question, and Eli glanced around at his siblings and cousins to see who would try to answer first, but no one else did. Well, that left it up to him, then. He hesitated, then squared his shoulders. "Because," he piped up tentatively, "if we don't, the Fallen God wouldn't like us very much? Because we'd be weak." Given the story, it was the answer that made the most sense to Eli.