Return of the Serpent

Eligos hadn't seen his sisters for... quite some time. Malleus' death had in some ways overshadowed the disappearance of his mother and Amaris, but Fel had walked away from the Risen Empire on her own volition as well. It had hurt not knowing what had happened to his mother and Amaris, but Fel's leaving had, because he knew it had been by choice, felt like she had deliberately abandoned them when the pack and her brothers had needed her with them.

He wouldn't have said that out loud.

Now he stood on the border, with her scent hot in his nose where it crossed the border and went deeply into their territory, and he couldn't not think that. Her call dragged him from his contemplation of the invisible signs of her passage, and the visible but subtle ones. Sighing out a faint puff of breath he left the trail and forged his way out towards the sound. He found Aureus there with her, but judging by their manner he hadn't been there as long as she had, which bore out what he had already known from the border. "You're lucky no one came across you trespassing before we came," he said with deceptive mildness. "Not everyone here would recognize you."