As her eyes stared unfocused over the border, the sound of pawsteps reached her and dragged her from her reverie, and she blinked slowly up at Valeriya Xanilov's concerned features. "Much has happened since last we saw one another, Valkyrie." She ignored Val's question about a healer for the moment, though her voice slurred slightly, partly from the wounds of her mouth and partly from exhaustion and dehydration from the long journey undertaken while wounded - but the uninjured side of her muzzle rose to bare a single fang in a faintly triumphant smirk. "I have challenged for a pack. I won."
The smile faded as quickly as it had come, and she stood, stretching the sore muscles across her lower back. "If you be amenable, I should like to ally Yfir to Ebony in bonds of close friendship." She hesitated then, gold-flecked silver eyes boring into Val's. "But there are things in fairness I should tell you before you do be making that decision."
Once more she paused, dipping her head absently to lick the wounds on her leg as she tried to piece together what to tell Val. It was rarely so hard to say what she meant, but rarely were things so important to her as the Xanilovs had come to be. Finally, raising her eyes to meet Val's gaze once more, she just spat it out, the words coming swift and clipped as though she were simply reciting a litany of her sins, which in a way she was. "It was Olympus I did challenge for, though Virgil was alpha no longer. Olympus as a pack is no more. Your four siblings through Virgil I claimed into Yfir as well as their two young siblings in vengeance for your littermates' abductions and my losses to Virgil. They are to be treated well unless they attempt escape, at which point the offender will be made a thrall of Yfir. The Olympus family will undoubtedly wish to punish Yfir for this and if you ally with me you may find Ebony enmeshed within a war not of your making. Virgil has given me one week to heal and to release her children or she intends to kill or maim me. I do not intend to release them. And that is what you would be getting into if you were to ally with Yfir."
She continued to watch Val, her expression stoic and distant though inside she was intently focused and... yes, nervous.
OOC: Sorry. Katja just doesn't shut up in this post.
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