remind me to find my own [ASHEN MEETING]

Takeshi was, unfortunately, the last to arrive it seemed. Ever since his father’s betrayal and departure, he’d been trying his best to take on the huge absence that the Shogun had left. He spent all his time monitoring the borders, hunting and making sure everyone in the pack was being taken care of. When he got the chance, he did his best to find his siblings or his mother and check in on them, allowing them to vent their frustrations or their worries and offer them a shoulder to lean on. He didn’t sleep much any more, a certain tiredness forming in his glowing red gaze, but he did his best to hide it. A part of him was incredibly angry at Hattori for leaving them like he did, like they were nothing to him, another part was sad and confused, and another part felt nothing. Empty. A black void he supposed it could be described. But it didn’t matter, his feelings didn’t matter. He had work to do.

The boy arrived on the scene, his expression its usually neutral as he offered nods to his packmates in greeting, but a small smile curled onto his lips as he spotted his siblings and his mother. He gave each of his sisters a kiss on the forehead, his brother a firm nudge with a white padded paw, and his mother a reverent bow of his horned head before sitting down next to his sisters to await his mother’s announcements.

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