Goodbye world and all who inhabit it

Set the day after the Habari raid. Please wait for Recluse to respond first.

Recluse had had a new batch of gremlins, and Kali disliked them just as much as she had the last. She still went to see her mother, but she preferred to time it when the little things were sleeping so she wouldn’t be bothered. Nobody could ever say Kali had a maternal bone in her body, and if she ever did have pups it would simply to be to continue the Klein lineage when she was leader. As would be her duty.

Luckily, as she arrived at the entrance to the den her mother shared with Erathius, she couldn’t hear the annoying little yips of the kiddos. Poking her head into the opening, she was pleased to find they were out with their ‘dad’. None of them looked like the blue man, so she didn’t imagine any of them came from his loins, but he’d adopted his place with them all the same. What a cuck.

The Cherubim settled in next to the Seraphim, giving her an affectionate kiss to the cheek, asking her how she was doing. It wasn’t a secret that her mother was perhaps the only wolf the woman actually cared about, despite the pack. But the pack was more surface level. There was genuine affection within the eldest Klein’s bi-colored gaze when she looked upon Recluse, the kind of affection that came from true respect. Recluse was the only wolf who deserved her respect, as far as she was concerned.

She was chatting away with her about the state of the pack and the recent raid when her mother began to look at her oddly. A glint of concern flickered within the cherry gaze of the Habari matriarch as she asked if Kali was okay. She responded of course, but her response only seemed to further startle the woman. Unbeknownst to Kali, she had begun to mix up her speech. The words she spoke were different from what she thought she was speaking. Suddenly, a headache hit her like a train and she gasped, slumping over against the matriarch. The pain overwhelmed her, blinding her visually and impeding her hearing. She vaguely registered the high pitch of her mother’s scream as wet blood trickled from her nose and ears.

Kali’s bi-colored gaze looked up at Recluse, fear gripping her heart. Instinctively, she knew she was dying. There was too much not right with what was happening to her, too much pain and too much confusion. She didn’t want to die yet, she didn’t deserve to. She had so much to live for, so much to do. But the Gods had deemed it her time, and there was no stopping it. Kali Klein took a deep, ragged breath, then her eyes rolled back before closing as the life left her body. She was no more in the span of less than 5 minutes from the time her symptoms had started.