Tyche scratched her claws in the dirt, blinking bashfully at Earth. “Well,” she mumbled, then cleared her throat carefully. “I’m okay. I was just walking about before I saw you. My father took my brother Lupin out to teach him to bring a deer down, and I don’t know where my other siblings are, so . . .” Then she added on, “He would have taken me too - except that I’m still recovering from the plague we had recently. Plus, I . . . I - well, I don’t have the best reputation when it comes to the sight of blood from any animal.” She flushed as she said this, embarrassment staining her cheeks with scarlet as she made the admission. “I don’t like to hurt things, even though we must hunt to live.” She wasn’t sure what the others would think of this confession. Would they sigh? Laugh? Think she was a soft, dithering fool?
“Would that keep you in?”artemis | sister to Selene, Aegaeon, Lupin & Lux | sabertooth | fallow deer x 5-tailed light kitsune x ball python | nadia
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