But for whom does the next bell toll?

"Talk" Walk

Movement would be all Souzan needed to spot him, the monster that had torn his kingdom apart, for what? A throne, and crown? Sou had to take what little pleasure he could from the thought that whatever he'd won for his fratricide he'd never gotten to enjoy it. The kingdom crumbling right in front of his eyes. The dull ache of Souzan's grief, the anguish of Avis' murder flared then, ignited like it hadn't been for years. Souzan locked his jaw, taking a few steps further away from the den where his daughter hid, but otherwise, he kept his mismatched gaze on the beast he'd once called brother. A wolf who didn't even deserve the dignity of one of their kind, worth less than the dirt under Souzan's paws. A snort, a ripple of annoyance on his face, that was all his older half-brother's attempt at an insult earned him. More like the annoying buzzing of a gnat than any real damage. Souzan hardly cared what Lücien thought of him. Though his gaze hardened at mentions of their sister, no other indication of what befell either himself or their misplaced siblings to his demeanor.

Lücien started speaking of a "little lady" and for the briefest of moments Souzan's face was a flash of panic before being replaced with confusion. Souzan forced his mind not to think of his daughter, and indeed as his half-brother went on to describe her he knew he hadn't somehow learned of the only wolf in the world left his brother could use to hurt him. But he also knew he had to do everything he could do to cover for the moment of weakness try to avoid drawing attention to it. "Ig's old 'friend'?" He asked, doing everything in his power to keep his tone even, gaze never moving from the approach of the thing that killed his sister, much as he wished to check that his daughter was not visible he refused to draw attention towards the otherwise innocuous old badger set.

Kirsi... was that who Lücien meant? Twice now he'd heard her name, the knowledge she was still in these lands weighing on him heavily. Where she was though? Well he neither knew nor cared. So it wasn't a lie when he replied to his brother, voice hard: "No."