Pre-Party Rumble [Valhallan Fighters]

He listened to each of his packmates as they spoke from their experiences. He, himself had been taken out during his second brawl, after his melee against Dragon with Justice at his side. He held no grudge against the woman who’d bested him—she’d won fair and square. In all honesty, he wanted to track her down and congratulate her for her win, however belatedly.

Artur spoke up, and Regulus locked eyes with him. Aurielle deferred the full answer to himself, and he nodded briefly to his daughter before he spoke. “My Uncle was among those maimed. He was blinded in one eye. He stayed for a long while, but his good eye eventually lost vision as well. At one point, he and his mate and daughter disappeared. I suspect they left in search of their missing sons. And I think they might have found at least one of them.”

His eyes roved the group before returning to Artur. “Marina left due to her own mental state. She could not trust herself to remain stable around her own children and asked to leave.”

The next words he’d made certain the rest of the pack knew, even if he had not announced it at large at a pack meeting. The banishment was shame enough for Acapella, even if she wouldn’t have been there to hear the announcement. “Acapella was fully blinded trying to fight beside Marina against the man that blinded them. However, in the end, I banished her. The reason is that she, firstly, did not send up a warning howl when she smelled a member of Talis near the Estuary border. Instead, she chose to speak to him freely, telling him that Marina, his father’s former mate, had left the pack. That she had children here.

“The laws are part of this pack for a reason. Being a leader is to wear masks. And that day I had to don the mask of law-keeper and banish my own cousin. I was much more lenient than I would have been with a sighted wolf. I ensured she would have a chance to settle and not starve by sending my companions out to hunt for her and protect her until she was settled in a place of her choice and knew the area. The man she spoke to? The same wolf who took her sight from her.”

He glanced to Paladin, nodding toward him. “Paladin, and perhaps Justice, would be best to answer about their brother.”