Let's Be Real

*Tsunami* · Updated 04/30/23:

Tsunami couldn't tell if she was more pissed about Ig clearly thinking she wasn't worth keeping an eye on her or amused by his absolutely foolish arrogance to leave her to her own devices with hardly anyone to watch and make sure she wasn't posing a problem. Which she fully intended to do, winter had mostly done her work for her, and the harsh spring was continuing it, leaving hardly any vegetation that could be usable, and most small prey had yet to emerge from their burrows... all things she planned to make harder for the rest of the pack to rely on once the weather stopped making her job easy for her.

Though that she was being watched enough not to simply pass over the border and never turn back seemed evident enough to her. So she stuck to the inner parts of the pines, away from watchful eyes, and allowed herself to nurse her wounds... and nurse her anger and hatred. Kimuy was ever at her side, the stoic reindeer had committed herself to being there for when the woman was ready to challenge her cousin again. It wouldn't be too long now, her wounds were all but healed but she wanted to lull him into a false sense of security before she tore the rug out from under his paws.

That being said she didn't really expect anyone else to seek her out, as far as she could tell everyone around her had decided to abandon her, her uncle had left them, lost an eye, and run like a coward. His children clearly didn't have anything to say about what had happened and her own brother had hardly shown much interest in her before this. So why now? And did it even matter? She'd already abandoned the Praetor name, choosing her own new name... something that spoke of what she intended for everyone who bore her old one. A growl rumbled in her throat as she approached her brother, rounding a pine to stand before him, Kimuy standing just behind her, the impressive and imposing rack of her antlers still not shed and therefore a visible threat.

"Tyto..." She said, not bothering to hide the bitterness and derision from her voice. "I'll admit I didn't expect you to find the courage to seek me out." It was an insult, she thought him and the rest of her family cowards, she'd been the only one among them, aside from her uncle, to try and actually fight back... and her uncle had lost and still gotten to leave with his tail between his legs. No, she was the only one who'd stood for anything at all, and the only one who'd paid for it. She'd not let Ig forget his moment of weakness in letting his uncle leave, if he was going to demand she fight and be forced to stay then he would never be allowed to forget he'd already broken his own rules, and if she got her way everyone else would be forced to remember too... be forced to look at him and see what she did, a crying, whining brat who couldn't even be consistent enough to rule properly.

"What do you want?" It was clear, she didn't want any platitudes from him, if he was going to do anything but try and get her out of here she wanted nothing more to do with him, or anyone in her family, any longer.

"Speech"

Art by Zinderell

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