The world rests heavy on your shoulders

When her mother and father had left for the north, to the same statue she had unwittingly offered her own unknown child to, she had waited only until they were out of sight to set out on her own journey. She had no reason to stay here being social with people she didn't particularly care about while the mother she loved traveled off to go suicide. No, Aris wanted to go home. The home she loved for most was gone, but the Armada waited in the north. Heartsick and angry, and guilty for being angry, she set out for the pack.

Now she trudged through the entrance to the warren underthe mountain and dropped her packs with a wretched sigh. She wanted to go curl up in her bed, or better yet hide in her lab, but Azure was alpha now, and her brother, and there were things she needed to report to him. So she lifted her head and called out, letting her tired voice echo through the cavern. "Azure?" She hoped she had timed it right to catch him before a patrol. If not she would need to go track him down, and she wasn't sure she had the emotional energy to not get this over with right away.