oops, dropped my tiara

The dethroned princess turned and glared at Toxicity, opening her mouth for a biting retort. When Venom appeared at her sister's side, forked tongue flicking, she felt her resolve waver and then dissipate entirely as she spotted the look in her sister's eyes. Disappointment. Somehow, that stung more than hatred. Calamity's shoulders fell and she stood there quivering, rage and confusion still racing through her tissue just as the blood ran through her veins. They all followed the same circulatory system. After a moment she slowly, measuredly, lowered her haunches to the ground and returned her sisters' gaze. "No, I don't feel better. I feel... lost in a deep, dark forest," Calamity said hoarsely. Her teeth began to chatter, some mad cross between rage and sorrow compelling her jaws to move of their own accord.

"I have spent all this time searching for a sign, an omen - some glimpse of our father or my own future - and I get..." She stared coolly at Tox, hurt lurking behind her eyes, "I get nothing. I feel nothing. I know nothing." Toxicity was the god-touched one, the favored Abraxas child. Calamity had been left behind long ago as her sisters forged on ahead while she spun aimlessly in circles, chasing shadows and searching for meaning in the natural rhythms around her. As much as she tried to sort the world into some grand symphony, it remained a cacophony of unrelated noises. She would not apologize. Her shame was too great to even admit failure, but as she looked at them with wide, empty eyes, it was easy to see a fathomless regret.