die and rise again and again [ASHEN MEETING]

"Speech"

Hela was gone, his mother had left her children in Ashen to chase after their aggressive cousin. He'd been aware that she'd been chafing under feeling like she wasn't appreciated by her younger empress but as far as Chai felt that was her own fault, and frankly her leaving and running rubbed him the wrong way. Deep down, deeper than Malachai had the emotional intelligence to ever really understand he was feeling abandoned, but all that deep pain, well it manifested as anger. The young man stomped his way through the packlands, grumbling and growling. As far as he was concerned, his mother clearly hadn't deserved the rank she'd been so angry to lose if she was willing to abandon her only remaining children just for an easy ride. And that feeling turned into spite. If his mother hadn't been willing to work for her place then he'd work twice as hard to earn his.

So Malachai would not wait too long to responde to the call for the pack, his resolve redoubled. The young man would quickly scan for his sister, and without seeing her he would settle himself, grumbling to himself but turning his attention towards his cousin.