mother knows best

Pestilence awaited quietly outside her mother's den, each sound within causing the pup to flinch in anticipation. She knew she was in trouble, there was nothing she could ever say to her mother to make this right. The pup's tail curled tightly around her, her head hung low between her shoulders and her ears flattened against her skull.

Countless punishments filled her imagination and she whimpered softly wondering what exactly the Empress had in store for her. Doing odd jobs for Valdis couldn't have been the only retribution her mother had planned. No, Pestilence knew the storm was coming. She gulped, occasionally glancing at the palace door and awaiting her mother's appearance.