TEAM OF LEADERS

A tiny sigh of relief escaped Cascade as her brother greeted her without rancor, even having reprimanded Nausica. A newly-familiar voice spoke up before she could, Daegmar having taken the same opportunity as she to follow Nausica to Neios. She asked of Neios' plans, and Cascade cocked her dark head to the side in curiosity. She, too, wished to know, and it was as though this gray-toned female had spoken the words for her. Why was she so insistent on knowing Neios' plans? Did she know him well? He didn't seem very glad to see her, if that were so. She'd seemed like an interesting sort, and Cascade wondered what her history might be with him. She had a lot of history to catch up on, it seemed.

Neios' plan was pretty simple, it seemed. He would take his sisters - plural, he was including her! - and form his own empire. Simple, but ambitious. Neios then turned to speak directly to her and Nausica, and his harsh words, his threatening snarl, sent a thrill through her. Eyes wide and hopeful, she lowered her ears and tail submissively, wagging her way closer to him to attempt to touch her muzzle to his chin, tongue stealing out to try to touch him in that universal wolf gesture of a subordinate acknowledging a superior. Compared to her sister's earlier defiance she might look to be nearly groveling, but the bright gleam in her bicolored eyes did not speak of fear, but excitement. "I will follow you anywhere, Neios," came her fervent murmured reply.

The purred words of another hardly registered, until Nausica responded and captured some of her attention. She blinked at the paler form of a stranger, not at all embarrassed for her - or Daegmar - to have seen her fawning over her brother. She made no reply of her own, though, merely attempted to rub her head against her much taller brother's shoulder.