The sarcasm wasn't taken too well initially, the attempt of any sort of playful banter seeming completely disgraceful given the standing between what Novella believed to be the two leaders. Knowing nothing of Jupiter's demise all she could assume was that this woman before her was some lackey for the other woman. Of course before any response could be given in return to the sarcastic remark, Epiphron would deliver the blunt truth. Jupiter had gone and the pack with her.
Novella was stunned, she certainly hadn't expected that news. Not one part of her felt sorry for the loss, any part of her that had once respected the woman had been destroyed the moment she had taken Novella's family prisoner. What did all of this mean for those family members now? Before she could find the words to ask, Epiphron was speaking once more offering more details into the matters. The name alone was more comforting, she only knew of three others that carried the Adravendi name and they were most certainly counted as friends and family to her.
She couldn't help but feel uneasy about the fact that Jupiter had trusted her however. Of course the orange woman had once trusted Song, perhaps if there had been the time history would have repeated itself with the Adravendi's earning the top spot on Jupiter's wanted list. Novella still couldn't understand the seemingly rapid change, the sick obsession with the Destruction family and causing them trouble. Maybe the woman simply wasn't really meant to have an ally in the world.
Epiphron would explain how she had come into Ludicael in the first place, no part in keeping the Destruction's prisoner, simply an old ally not caught in Jupiter's line of fire. Those details would soften her slightly, as would the news that some of Novella's family had remained there. Her guess would immediately leap to Novel, Ara and their boys. They must have grown so much now, perhaps there was hope that the family could reunite in safety.
"That Jupiter certainly seemed different from the one that returned." Novella pointed out, voice certainly slightly calmer now, the cold edge to her tone having melted. "Back then my family had been valued members of her pack." Evidently something had happened to the woman to make her change, and over the space of a couple of years it wasn't such a sudden development really at all.
"Novel." Novella hastily wished to leave from the topic of Jupiter, settling upon the mention of her niece and her family. "That is who has stayed behind, right? Are they all ok?" Having seen the state Myth was in she had to ask. She worried where her sister was of course if the woman hadn't appeared upon the Threar borders and apparently hadn't remained in Fiori. Now eager to learn about her niece she wouldn't immediately extend her acceptance of neutrality. She certainly didn't want a war though and had no problems with the Adravendi family so far.
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