The meeting seemed to start off well as the members of Ludicael - mostly Destructions, actually - began to gather, but then everything went horribly wrong. Song moved into their midst, moved up to Uncle Dutiron and placed at his feet the body of a young wolf. Satu stared uncomprehendingly for a moment, confused and more than a little disconcerted, even frightened. Who was this child? Why was he dead? What was going on?
Satu had never actually met any of Song's younger children; keeping to herself as much as she had all these months she hadn't even known one of them was ill and doing badly. Until Dutiron spoke up to take control of the situation, asking for silence for Descant Destruction, Satu had no idea what was going on, and it looked very bad - and then his words made it even worse. She had a cousin she hadn't even known, who had died, and all she could feel was numb and confused. Satu crouched miserably next to Novella, ears flattened to the sides. The rest of Dutiron's words passed in something of a dull buzzing; none of it had anything to do with her anyway, which was the way meetings always went.
