04-15-2021, 02:51 PM
Watching the statues crumble was one of the best moments of her life. She watched as rock shattered and fell to the ground. Chunks smashing and falling to the marr the floor. It was not exhilarating but so...relieving. She didn't have to look at them anymore. She didn't have to feel that pain of abandonment. The urge to keep pushing herself harder because she didn't need them. She was not riding off their supposed success but her own. She had made it this far. Not them. But her moment of peace was shattered when she heard his pawsteps. When he was right there in front of her and defending them. Saying the brought them from ruin and gave them the territory that they stood on. This little spit of land. She found her face devoid of emotions. She was angry though. Her eyes inflamed but also she was almost beginning to childishly pout. She disagreed. Disagreed. DISAGREED. His face do close to her own she felt her claws twitch in their sheaths. Her legs trembled with the effort to stand still.
What had she done? She curled her muzzle slightly. "You act as it they were the only ones doing anything to help us to survive. That they did everything. Well I'll enlighten you. I was there, I was there every fucking moment of it. Fighting, my skin tearing for them. My blood spilling on every group's territory for us. We could have stopped. We could have just taken Elysium. We didn't need them. We didn't need Tanglewood, we didn't need the Typhoon. But Stryker was greedy. You can try to deny it brother. But Dad bite off more than he could chew and now, now he is dead and we are stuck on this frozen wasteland!" This island, these islands broken and marred by movement were nothing but hand-me-downs. It was not theirs but some weak pathetic group's that they had managed to devoured and keep down.
"I'm the one that has been keeping us alive since mother abandoned us. She jumped ship after everything, after dad was murdered. If it wasn't for me the Coalition would be no more! I held us together while you decided to wander off and leave me too. Then you come back....are you trying to say you could do better? Do you want my throne, dear brother? I heard what you did while I was away..." A decision she too would have made. She approved of it but was it his place to do it? Was he coming for her crown? Did he want her power? Her claws braced against the ground and the leopardess held her eyes glued on her sibling even as Aphra and Arvid backed her up on her decision. And then a tiny voice spoke and she snapped. Her wild eyes jerking down to look at the kid. "Shut up! How would you know anything?! You weren't even alive then. Not even a conceivable notion! A child should keep his mouth shut before he loses his tongue." The Kingpin hissed sharply. She was breaking, she was breaking. Her mind fracturing. Was her own family turning against her? They couldn't be? It was not possible.
What had she done? She curled her muzzle slightly. "You act as it they were the only ones doing anything to help us to survive. That they did everything. Well I'll enlighten you. I was there, I was there every fucking moment of it. Fighting, my skin tearing for them. My blood spilling on every group's territory for us. We could have stopped. We could have just taken Elysium. We didn't need them. We didn't need Tanglewood, we didn't need the Typhoon. But Stryker was greedy. You can try to deny it brother. But Dad bite off more than he could chew and now, now he is dead and we are stuck on this frozen wasteland!" This island, these islands broken and marred by movement were nothing but hand-me-downs. It was not theirs but some weak pathetic group's that they had managed to devoured and keep down.
"I'm the one that has been keeping us alive since mother abandoned us. She jumped ship after everything, after dad was murdered. If it wasn't for me the Coalition would be no more! I held us together while you decided to wander off and leave me too. Then you come back....are you trying to say you could do better? Do you want my throne, dear brother? I heard what you did while I was away..." A decision she too would have made. She approved of it but was it his place to do it? Was he coming for her crown? Did he want her power? Her claws braced against the ground and the leopardess held her eyes glued on her sibling even as Aphra and Arvid backed her up on her decision. And then a tiny voice spoke and she snapped. Her wild eyes jerking down to look at the kid. "Shut up! How would you know anything?! You weren't even alive then. Not even a conceivable notion! A child should keep his mouth shut before he loses his tongue." The Kingpin hissed sharply. She was breaking, she was breaking. Her mind fracturing. Was her own family turning against her? They couldn't be? It was not possible.