For the most part Lel had not given a care about his mother, she had disappeared one too many times and with her out of sight she was very much out of mind, in fact with her gone his life had gotten tangentially easier. He was the only family Jian needed and with Alena gone he was all she had, just how he wanted to keep it.
So when a familiar scent roused the ivory giant from sleep it came with a flurry of emotions. Anger that she had left them, that she dare return; now of all times. What he wanted wasn?t so clear, he wanted to greet her, to lay eyes upon the woman that had birthed him, he wanted to hurt her, he wanted to chase her from his sight forever. Rolling to his paws, a growl already forming in his chest the yearling stalked towards the entrance of the caverns.
He arrived in time to see her swing back around and as he laid eyes upon her Lel began to chuckle darkly. "You look like hell." There was amusement in his voice, violet gaze sweeping to her new scars.
