Everything Ends (Ebony Meeting)

She had lingered beside the barrows where her sister and her student rested side by side, as Kassander left to gather his pack. She offered up a prayer to the gods to carry his soul swiftly to Valhalla, to Auora to guide him and watch over him as he joined his ancestors in Odinn's hall. She offered up, too, a summoning howl for her family to join her. But she could not long tarry there, and she moved to join Kassander at a lope. Coming across the slowly swelling crowd around the Xanilov boy, she slowed. Rather than join the group in front of Kassander, or interrupt his siblings by seating herself beside him, she halted some feet behind him and lowered her haunches to the ground. Sweeping her silver gaze over the group, she simply observed silently for the moment.