That dark feeling reared its head inside of her like the ominous swirling of storm clouds. Bane's family was not, it seemed, the only one that would break from the pack. It was not wholly unexpected as the pack became more cognizant of the changes that came with her rule, the differences in the way things were to be, yet surprise or not it was an affront to her pride. Very well. Raisa was gone, her children gone to Olympus or to adventure, the old Ebony slowly dissolving away anyway. Perhaps this was the gods telling her what she must do.
Her smooth face, masked emotionally as well as physically, rose from the pups where her gaze had lingered in her thoughtfulness, to the mother who she fixed with an imperious stare. "Then go," she spoke expressionlessly. "You've no wish to be here, that is clear enough. I trust you realize that if you are found on pack lands in the future you will be treated as any other outsider. Go, and may the gods grant your children a safe home with your... new friend." There was no threat in the surprisingly mild tone as she said the words so blandly, but there was naught but dismissal in her cold silver eyes as she turned away with a flick of her striped tail to stalk away into the brush.
