I'm Coming After You

Her brother was as playful as ever. She heard him singsonging just before he called to her as she was making her way back from the borders. Natalya had clearly been avoiding her family lately, trying to hide the weakness that plagued her. Between illness and now carrying another litter, the Matriarch was falling to pieces. It took every ounce of strength and the encouragement of Poe at her side to actually show her face to her brother, to show him how she suffered.

Nat stepped slowly into the open and barked to alert Timaeus to her presence. "Brother," she greeted, her voice strained. "Have you been settling in well? I haven't seen you since the last meeting and I am sorry for that. I've been... busy."