Walk | Talk | Think
Aeil's words of comfort and confidence heartened the wary mother as she considered how much the visit she had spoken of would help her children with their father's absence. She could practically see them all already, ever-patient Bane smiling amidst the three of them while the children romped and played and filled his ears with all of their stories and adventures since they had last seen him. Surely they would have much to say, and knew without question that he would be eager to hear of it all. A little the smile upon her face began to return and her dark golden eyes to warm, still envisioning the scene within her mind's eye.
The statement from the wolf that followed caught Tahlia somewhat off guard, and it likely showed as she turned her head to regard the grey she-wolf mere seconds after she had spoken it. Did she really think that? Was she not worried, as Tahlia feared some of her other pack mates were, that the influence of the children's parents, in particular their father, might turn them into nuisances in the future? It had not been spoken of to her, nor had she heard the thought whispered by others thinking her out of earshot, but it had crossed her mind, her paranoia taking flight with its fancies. But Aeil seemed rather apart from everyone else, somewhat like Destruction though not quite so distant from the rest of the pack. She was apart of them, heard what they had to say, and yet her thoughts were not being swayed by it.
She had not expected to feel anything very friendly towards the rest of the pack, especially after learning that her husband's fate had been determined and seconded by those who held considerable rank, but at the moment she was starting to see Aeil as someone that she might be able to trust. She was not judgmental, nor did she appear the type to carry false faces with her to each of those that she met. She seemed sincere, and considering everything that had been happening in Tahlia's life lately she thought a few acquaintances of that nature might be good to have.
"I thank you," she responded with sincerity, her tone colored with a mild surprise, "You pay my family a great compliment. And I do hope you are right. I want nothing but the best for them. I only hope they realize that. I fear I am much harder on them than Bane would be were he here."
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