Can't Beat the Element of Surprise

Chimera asked her for the brute's appearance and she frowned a bit, looking off across the water at the blurry island in the distance with her head still on his chest. "He was as big as you... His eyes were dark. I couldn't really tell if they were brown or gray... Mostly bluish gray fur and his teeth were so sharp..." She struggled to remember any more distinguishing features besides the very distinctive scattered stripes like the ones that adorned Scylla. It was also a small white lie to say that she didn't remember her attackers eyes. She had seen them very well as he was threatening her to bear his pups and telling her to run, but they were the same gray as one of Scylla's eyes. She had held true to Siren's secret all this time and she didn't want to reveal enough to give away her suspicions. It was entirely possible that similar traits popped up in both wolves all by coincidence, but she had a hard time believing that. If it wasn't this bastard in particular then maybe a relative of his.

Chimera eased her worries as he assured her that no one would see her like this, making a weak smile pull across her lips as he nuzzled her ear. With a gentleness she wasn't even sure she knew that he had, he moved her onto his back to carry her down to the water. As gentle and careful as he was, her body still hurt and ached with every movement. Her muscles were worn down from trying and failing to get away from that man and all of the brutality that he had put her through and all of that was aside from the open wounds on her neck and between her thighs. She grit her teeth and held back any sounds though, letting the pain of the movement help keep her awake and alert instead. She carefully slid into the water from his back, the water both soothing and painful at the same time. The salt water stung terribly in what felt like every part of her with the small scratches that were mostly hidden under her fur from the scuffle, but it was almost calming in a strange way. It felt like everything awful that was clinging to her was being burned away. She had to lean into him to stay sitting upright while he scooped water up onto the parts of her that weren't submerged in the water.

She shifted her gaze up toward his face as he spoke and gave her some options to help her hide away for a bit so she could recover. Her immediate reaction was to say no, she wanted to go home and be where she knew she was safe and to be with him, Siren, and Ruse, but she stopped herself from replying straight away and let herself think on it for a moment while he continued to help her bathe and the blood that clung to her started to spread out into the water around them. She knew he was right. Even if she cleaned up a bit, Ruse was observant and inquisitive. She'd figure out something was wrong within a moment of seeing her. Their daughter was so young, bright, and brave... She didn't want the real terrors of the world to effect her. At least not while she still had a say in it. "Okay," she finally said with a heavy bit of reluctance. It would just be for a few days till she could get back on her feet and the wounds on her neck could start to mend. She could survive for a couple of days. She had survived much worse and she wasn't going to let this break her either.

She leaned into his touch as he nuzzled her ear and assured her that she would have everything to prevent what she feared and then promised to find the bastard and kill him. She smiled softly again and tipped her head to be able to give him a small, grateful kiss. "I know you will..." she rasped quietly, knowing without a doubt that he would always do anything to protect and defend her and any of his Queens or family. It was one of the things that drew her to him the most after she was able to look past and forgive the beginning of their time together. Dalila gave him another soft kiss and then leaned into him more heavily, her eyelids heavy and hardly able to stay open now that she felt safe and the scent of the sea water had drowned out anything else that was turning her stomach. "Where do we have to go...?" she asked as her eyes closed and her head leaned into him, fully trusting that he would get her wherever it was that she needed to go so she could rest.

"Dalila Vista Klein"