I stand before him, he is clearly tired, worn out. Good, might mean some of this will penetrate that thick skull of his because he will not be able to bite back, to simply engage me in a fight as I know he wishes too. I know him well, simply because he hasn’t changed, I on the other hand had changed a lot over the years I could be a wild card. I was not hot-headed as I used to be so eager to fight as I was back then and to pick them. I regret some of the words I bit at others in my anger and hurt the same feelings that too still plagued the wolf before me for different reasons. His obsession was a completely other story though. I stare at him as he requests it wait until morning, I will not let him go near Daenerys as he is. He is useless to her in this state anyway.

He tries to defend himself about ‘not being needed’ funny he says that because she needed his company more than ever right now. His presence brought her comfort, I knew it, which was why I never questioned his company. She liked to be around him, if not she wouldn’t have forgiven him as she had put him in one of the highest positions. The fool was blind and stupid apparently did I have to spell this out to him? I let him say his bit, only allowing a chuckle to let loose from my maw but cutting short as he answered my more out of character question.

My eyes glare at him though really he was right. I wished to still call him brother as I used to, but how could I have someone so close that was so thick-skulled and cowardly be my family. He riskes everything I aim to protect. But I realize I cannot protect them from everything, I realize that perhaps in some parts they did not wish for my protection. For if I had my way, he would never go near her ever again, that way, maybe she would find herself a more suitable place to put her heart, safer, less volatile. Hell if she wanted I would be her partner as strange as it was, if it made her happy. But no she had picked who she wanted and now I had to make this holder suitable for her capable of being worthy even if she deemed so, I had to make it so in my eyes too.

It seemed though I may have snapped something in him. His gaze changed on from anger and defense to something else. Had my momentary snap worked? I do not speak like that normally and it was not something I had chosen to do, it just came. But he was risking my family and my duty is and always will be, to protect it. I would let him finish his ‘defense though’ let him get it all out. His excuses, his lies, all of it.

His words on self control again only draw out a chuckle and his ‘scratch’. But his last words, what he had to say for himself. Now that might have caught me a bit aback. Surely it shows on my face for him to admit he was a fool? Well perhaps my words have finally gotten somewhere, but I still think he doesn’t understand why he is a fool with that last bit. But I would get through all his rebuttle before settling on that part.

"Until you act like family you will never be my brother again." I start simply. Even if I wished to claim him as family again, to give him this sort of devotion that I had to the rest of my family he would not get it until he understood what it was to be family. Currently he had no idea, he thought only for himself. Regardless if he thought otherwise.

”You saw him, Meryl and dear sister Ceal, do you really think they could have stopped someone like Purge if she came running in for revenge? I fought the woman she gives no mercy she killed my Mother even and was willing to kill all my sisters. All of them if it meant assuring that crown she did not deserve. It would not have surprised me if she hadn’t slipped into the mountain cave to finish the job her underling started. This land is thick with her stench she could have hid from Sleekwing and I got to that cave, and while I don’t doubt her imprint wouldn’t give his life to save her as I would my own, he is not a warrior as you are Leonidas, and nor is Ceal.” In a sense he may have risked two of my family members lives. I know Daenerys would have fought but she was weak. Now I know little truly of the Diveen healers abilities in battle, I am quite certain there are none. He wears a scar sure but no tale of where he had gained it. Could have been a bad incident with a rock for all I knew. But I did know where Leo’s came from he could deny it all he wanted, he hadn’t changed. He did it when he was young, got angry, picked fights. It was how he was.

I let that sit for a moment before continuing, ”So tell me ‘protector’ how weren’t you wrong? You have to think of everything that may come to harm her. Perhaps you didn’t know of that insane woman’s tendancies, though you would have if you didn’t run away the first time leaving her shattered and in the dirt confused and lost and…” My temper was rising each one of my last words getting louder and louder and my hackles raising.

”You know how ungodly frustrating it is watching your family hurt like that and knowing you can’t do a damn thing to help? She left too after that, she met that Meryl and left she was so confused and hurt. Torn even. I can’t begin to understand what she felt, for I just have one, for now, just the soul. But to have both and in different places. That sounds hellishly difficult.” I will let that sink in, I wonder if he will catch on. Perhaps he is blind, but I am not those teasing games as children and his undying loyalty. It was a curse they weren’t imprints.

”You need to realize Leonidas that your idiotic actions affect those around you. And what you want or need versus what you must do regardless if it is hard or whatever conniption you have. And by fate if I don’t make you understand this by the time this conversation is over!” He would grow up today, he would, I wasn’t going to spell it out for him, not all of it anyway. Let him use that brain of his to work things out, even if it’s a little. I will tell him one thing about that Master Healer that I learned in Diveen, but not yet. It was not time, let him think.

”You are a fool.” I repeat letting that sink in before thinking about his last part.Should he have come back? Well if it was before now, before he found Daenerys again and after her quest to settle her emotions. No, but now? Well I really had no choice.

”If I thought you weren’t important to her, I would have killed you for hurting her as you did.” I let that hang in the air my voice deathly serious with that last line. I would have, duty demanded it of me and I still would have that Purge woman’s head on a platter if possible. ”And if you wouldn’t have came back tonight I would have hunted you down and drug you home myself. For you to think otherwise really tells me how ignorant you are.” My tail gives a flick, I think for the moment I have done quite enough. I think I may have hit something that might have resembled a brain in him, perhaps he will understand now why it is I am so angry and what he should do to fix it.

”Get up. We are going to Niviaq.” I say my voice considerably less angry and almost tired itself. I still had things to say, lots of things, but unless he brought on another fire in me he wouldn’t get getting them. Well angrily at least.

~ Calls Sage’s Soul ~ Serenades None ~ Sings Spirane’s Song~