Light and Warmth

"Speech"
The fact that life kept moving, it kept just chugging on was rather cruel, at least by Recluse' estimation. She wanted very little more than to lay down and let the earth take her, wrap her up in cold dirt and let her sit in her grief until it killed her. But the earth remained as it always was and time continued to move forward. And she was needed. Much as there was a part of Recluse that wanted to join her lost daughter she couldn't. Others needed her. Kali was not the only child Recluse had and her siblings needed their mother more than she did now... Especially Recluse's youngest litter. It was for her other children that she really kept herself going, though Eraithus helped enough that he'd also joined her reasoning. She also knew that her pack needed her, she did not have the luxury of grieving for too long, and that too felt rather cruel. But it was not her pack's fault that they would need her.

And her younger cousin needed her now. Voodoo deserved not to be alone, she'd done Recluse a service with her own recent birthing and she remembered well enough what it had felt like to give birth to her first litter all by herself. Voodoo would not feel that if she could help it, even if she was at her absolute lowest. One way or another Recluse was still Habari's leader... And Voodoo's cousin. Recluse probably didn't look all that amazing, she was still struggling to sleep and when she did it was only after crying for a while, so yeah she probably looked like hell but she'd done her best to keep herself from getting too ragged.

The pale woman approached her younger cousin's den, letting out a gentle huff to announce herself before she entered, pale cherry gaze turning towards the little bundles her cousin was nursing. "They're beautiful." She said softly, a sad smile pulling at her lips. The empire was continuing to grow, continuing to bolster itself and she was proud of her cousin for the part she'd played and yet it stung that when she looked down at the tiny little squirming pups all she could feel was sadness. Voodoo had better hold these little ones close.