So excited she was to see him again that she hadn't noticed the way Danny froze at first, so excited was Ceal that she didn't notice the soon to be tension in the air as Danny and Meryl met for what she thought was the first time ever. She is about to ask Meryl what he was doing here when Danny's voice broke through her excitement finally and found Ceal's brain. Receptors bounced off each other and recognition slid into place where before she had been adimantly incoherent of anything other than Meryl. She found she liked him, more so than she liked Tal for he was a brother, siblings do not like each other in such a way. No, that would be wrong. But when Danny said again, Ceal had to turn around and look at her little sister. It wasn't concern written across her face so much so as questioning. She wanted to know how the two had met and how come Danny hadn't told her that she knew Meryl. All those nights in the den when father and uncle God had been off doing other things and not a word.

It seemed confusion was running rampant between the two siblings. Even being the older sibling didn't mean that she knew more than Danny, she didn't know much about imprinting. She didn't know much about relationships. As Meryl jerks away from her she is left standing there, feeling like someone had just pulled the band-aid from her flesh, pulling fur and all with it. She didn't know about this feeling within her heart, like a wet fish flopping around on the river shore, it beat with a cause most worthy in her eyes but seeing Danny looking back and forth between the two of them, Ceal and Meryl, lingering moments longer on he than Ceal. She is quiet, for once... she doesn't know how to take all of this. "I... you already know each other?" she asked looking to Meryl with questioning pink pools, she had nearly forgotten about the young pup. Danny had called him a cousin right? yes, that was the word she had used. Ramiel was his name. She embeded it to memory for a later moment.

She is thankfully distracted from Meryl's sudden pulling away by Ramiel as he burst forwards and struck a rather fantastical pose, causing Ceal to loose her concentraition in the moment and begin to chuckle towards him. "Oh my Ramiel! What an amazing stature! anyone should be afraid of such a creature" she said with a mock expression of fear on her face, ears pulled back slightly and tail tucked between her legs before she leaned down with her front end and pawed at Ramiel. She wanted to answer, wanted to tell Ramiel that it wasn't a nessessity, but he had asked Danny and as the heir it was her duty to answer such questions. Meryl starts to speak, in that adorable awkward way, perhaps that is what had drawn her to him all those months ago.

He says that he is not her on pleasure, but on a task by his teacher, she frowns slightly at this but tires her best to keep her attentions on Ramiel to lessen the feeling within her heart. She didn't know that Meryl could never be her's, the sadness it would bring could cause a break down, but she had been through worse. A mother leaving you on the door step of a random pack still struck within her heart as the worst thing she had ever gone through to date. She would recover with time, perhaps one day she will find that special union that the two others had found. That she didn't know they had. If she knew the wars raging on in this small circle she wouldn't wish for either to feel such things. She only wants everyone to be happy. Her posture had returned to one of happy, she would play with Ramiel if he wanted to. "Oh, Uncle Godric is a healer isn't he Danny?" she asks trying to mask the confusion of the situation with a few sweeps of her tail.

"Talks like this"

Lyrics from "Cath..." by Death Cab For Cutie.