let the ravens gather

Chaos sings around her, and she hears the voices of her children, smells the scent of their pelts. She yearns to bury her nose into their soft fur, to catch up with the ones she?s left behind, and to get to know those who she?s been so cruelly ripped from. Katja rings accusations, but Katja does not know the story. ?Those children were by rights mine. I was their second parent, Raisa had no right to give their guardianship to you. While they were young it was my intention to protect them. Had you beaten me once, Katja, I would have given in and accepted you as their guardian. Would have accepted you as stronger. But I defeated you that day, I defeated you and proved I was stronger, proved I was a more capable guardian. It had been my intention to give them their free choice when they turned one,? she notes.
Katja speaks such harsh words, and Virgil does not rile. She is calm, she is wrath, and she has the power here. ?I left because I was near death. If I had not, they would have no mother either way. I would rather them miss me for a few moons than miss me their entire lives. But you, you have no right to them. I am deeply sorry for my actions regarding the Xanilov children, for the hurts I inflicted upon them, but I will rip all your limbs from your body one by one before I let you keep them,? she snaps.
Katja may spit at her, but Virgil does not give in to the taunt. Golden gaze shifts to her children. ?Children, she may title you as members of her pack, but if you all now call for your freedom she does not have the manpower to defend it. If you find yourselves unwilling, due to the lack of teaching I have been able to provide given my absence, do not worry. She may call you whatever she wants, but she will have to kill me before she can drag you beyond borders you do not wish to go. You can act as rogues whilst she pretends that her claim has any meaning over you,? she tells her brood. Katja would be nothing but a torso on the ground by the time Virgil was ready to give the final blow, that Virgil would be certain of. The golden woman certainly had not done right, but she did not appreciate Katja?s cowardice, and she had to show the world what the wrath of the gods truly looked like.