A solo missing her duet

Her sister wiggled against her, but Peggy was alarmed to find that Cadence was crying. She pulled away to look down at the other woman, her mismatched eyes suddenly shadowed in concern. Was something wrong? Had something gone wrong back at home with Dad and the others? But despite her tears Cadence's words were spoken in a happy giggle, and the sudden constriction of worry in Peggy's chest eased. She pressed her brow against Cadence's. "I've missed you too," she voiced, finding herself needing to force the words past a lump that had suddenly formed in her throat. "I wasn't sure if anyone else was going to decide to come too." The past year of uncertainty and fear and grief nearly caught up to her all at once, but she swallowed it back.

Shaye's voice nearly made her jump out of her skin, and Peggy nearly fell over she turned her head so fast to regard the alpha who had appeared seemingly out of nowhere. "Shaye," she gaped, then shook herself out of her surprise. "Shaye, this is my sister, Cadence. Cadence, this is our cousin Shaye, Motif's older daughter." Cadence would have grown up with the same stories of the Destruction family she did, and while Peggy hadn't been personally familiar with Shaye's name in particular, her mother had spoken of her own siblings.