From Fire, We Grow

Ember was still not very pleased with her father's decisions or lack thereof as of late, so when she heard him summon the Hallows wolves for a meeting, she didn't immediately head down to join the others. Instead, she sighed and rolled her eyes, marking the page she was on in her book with a little dog-eared corner and setting it aside on her bed. She then rolled off to the floor and, with a languid stretch, she made her way over to her vanity and began to brush out her long tail into a smooth layer of fur. She probably didn't really have time to get all done up, but she didn't really care. Ember took her time smoothing out her tail and braiding it up into the simple yet functional braid her mother had shown her so it wouldn't be dragging on the floor on her way down. Then, once she was finally ready, Ember leisurely made her way downstairs to the meeting. 

Strolling casually into the hall, Ember noticed several others had already arrived before her, but most of the Hallows had yet to convene. Her mother and father sat up at their family's table as expected, with her extended family and other Hallowed wolves taking seats at the long tables around the room—including Aylin, who the Carpathian princess did her best to avoid eye contact with, lest her face light up as hot as the fire in the hearth again. Ember walked over to Tamsyn first and gave her grandmother a sweet kiss on the cheek in greeting before heading up the dais to join her family. She went to give her mother a kiss on the cheek too, all smiles to her mom. "Bună, Mami!" But to her father, she just gave him a curt dip of her head. "Bună, tati." The message was loud and clear. Ember went to take her usual seat at her family's table then, settling in prim and proper while she waited for this to get underway. She had a good book to be getting back to... 

"Ember Carpathius"