So it ever was. So will it always be. Such is the nature of evil.
The frenzy that fuels him is almost complete as he growls and claws at the ground, his eerie eyes flicking to Umbra and into the distance. He almost turns upon Matianak as she clambers into the scene if only because he is so entranced in the idea of ridding the world of the menace that is the family of Paravana. Yet it is precisely her arrival that pulls him back from the precipice for the moment with his bloodstained maw turning to her, his nose reaching down to press uncomfortably into her as he sniffs.
He must make sure that they have not tained them. Her scent washes out the stench of the male but he does not turn his nose to Umbra for she smells so strongly of the death of Paravana. It aches in him but the ghost cannot comprehend what it is. The greif that consumes him is unfamiliar for who has he truly cared for in this life save perhaps Sarabi and Paravana? Death did not bother him because it had never before taken one from him.
His maw snaps back towards Matianak as she speaks, a pleased expression on her face, and he stares at her with something like dawning. For she is not useless, as pups were, in this moment. For her very words she has proven a worth - although proof was in the power, of course, and action, but that did not discount her from his eyes. The growl from Umbra draws his eyes back. Before these two pups had been like scenery in the background. Yes, they were Paravana and his, and yet they were always behind Paravana because that was all he could see. Maybe her death had opened a doorway. What was it Eden had said? There could be others.
A slow, almost lazy, twitch of his tail is given. Not in agreement but in thought as his lips peel back to reveal yellowed fangs.
"We will bring their souls to the Shade. Together." How unfamiliar a word upon his tongue. Still, it flows off his sibilant voice with a hiss of fury.
It is only then that he realizes just how, well, small his children still were. They were growing, for sure, but they were not quite adults. But neither were they pups.
"By summer's end. The Shade requires your work. I will guide you." It is strange and his tongue is stilted. These two pups were not quite pups but neither grown ups and they would be his.. companions. His disciples.
UNDERIDGE
EIGHT - MALE - NO HEART - STARSHADE'S SOUL
OF GLORALL - ENDERLY X BANSHEE - KILL COUNT (IIII)