If you could take it all back

It seemed that he wouldn't need to seek out his problems, as one tracked him to his doorstep. He focused his eyes on the approaching form to see his cousin there, the one he had been closest to, save Thalia, and to say that she appeared unhappy to see h would be an understatement. His claws scraped the rock as Eligos slowly stood to face her, his eyes narrowing at her words. "It was guilt that kept me away, Ina, or were you so caught up in your own family that you hadn't heard? You were in hiding long before my exile." His voice matched her icy tone as he stared down at her. If she wanted to confront him with prejudice them fine, they would air all their issues at once. He was not going to fall back into being conciliatory when his elder cousin was to blame for their estrangement as much as he was. "You certainly made no effort to tell anyone in the pack that you were pregnant. You whelped in secret, never called for me as alpha of the pack that they were born into or as leader of your family! Their family! I called for you long before I left pack lands to discuss this, but you never came. Why is that, Proserpina? Why act now like you were abandoned when you hid yourself from me before I ever left?"