I Am Aware

The silence that immediately followed her retort was deafening and oh so satisfying. Ever since the day they'd met, Duchess had been standoffish and cold towards her, but up until recently she hadn't actually been anything more than a nuisance in the periphery of her life. Em couldn't even recall a single instance of some offense she'd made towards Duchess. The prissy little princess just seemed to have a problem with her. She could tolerate her existence and coexist without much interaction on their behalf. But now Duchess had done something so absolutely stupid and reckless and selfish that it put them all in danger and directly harmed Indigo. Duchess was no longer a band mate in her mind; Duchess was a threat and a problem that had to be dealt with. Were it not for Indigo's word keeping her safe, Emersyn didn't know what she'd do—but she knew that Duchess wouldn't be a problem anymore if she had her way.

When the problem in question did finally respond, indignantly remarking that she'd just leave, Em turned her head just enough to watch the wobbly wolf stumble down the beach away, almost falling right away, and then completely face planting to the sand not even a minute later. Gods, she looked so pitiful and pathetic. She must have been a fantastic fuck for Indigo to ever stick his dick in something so dumb and screwed up. With a frustrated sigh, Em got back up and walked casually over toward the downed wolf, sitting a couple feet away while she fixed Duchess with a hard leer. "You done acting stupid now, or are you gonna keep at it?" she asked, mostly rhetorically. "Don't fall too hard. You're carrying precious cargo."

She said the last couple words with a harder emphasis, clueing Duchess in that she knew what the bitch had done. She didn't outright condemn, damn, or degrade Duchess—yet—but she wanted her to know. She wanted Duchess to know that they all knew of the sin she'd committed and how she betrayed Indigo and the band.

"Emersyn"