Dione would profess to him that family was family and Toxin got that... But still. He tried to keep from pouting and nodded instead, in case Mother got scary again. He would heed her, but that did not mean he had to like it. Even as he resigned himself to this, Dione leaned in close. The heart, she told him, would be for him and him alone. Fire burned in the small creature's eyes.
Everything seemed to happen in a flurry from that moment on. Toxin could only watch in amazement as his mother challenged the white woman, how scared the stranger looked. This was a monster, but his Mother would not be afraid! She challenged her, dove in, that bite, the blood... Toxin shivered. He was rooted to the earth, too astounded to remember his most basic functions, until Dione's voice broke in upon him like a breath of fresh air: "We shall follow her trail until we find her..." Toxin plunged forward into the woods, crashing through the underbrush with little heed to what might lay ahead of him. He wanted to catch the monster, wanted to eat her heart, but most of all he wanted to see what it looked like when the life went out of a body.
