Sekhmet settled onto her haunches, her cold gaze cast down to the pup. She didn’t fear to recline around him. If he lunged for her, she would be more than pleased to trap him within her grasp. Fluffed ears twitched at his outpouring of words, questions rather. Power, pleasure, and why. Truthfully she only had an answer to one of these, though she had her own reasons. “I tailed you. Had a pup. Was stolen away. I wanted another.” Though outwardly she growled slightly if one looked into her eyes perhaps they could be able to tell the pain reflected in them. After all, once she had lost Thoth, she had lost Zeru as well.

Shaking the thoughts with a curl of her lip she spoke once more; “She’s mine. Don’t control her. Speak for her. Myself? No power. No pleasure. Not from you. Monster? Would’ve killed you. Tortured you. Eat you. Did I?” She skirted around the fact she would have devoured him if she were so inclined, still she didn’t mind letting the idea of such a thing be toyed with. “I didn’t intervene. Could have. Perhaps crushed father. Shattered Stranger. I did not.” Now it was time for the boy to speak while she still remained unswayed to take him between her jaws. Perhaps in the future but for now he remanded safe from her eternal hunger that devoured and stretched the emptiness of her soul.

A deep sigh escaped as her maw fell back to its part, her past was a painful one, and yet she buried it quickly before she unleashed her wrath on the youth. She was curious what the youth pup was really aiming to hear. She had no intention to kill him this day unless she was pressed to do so. “Can teach you.” Sekhmet could try and sway him, make him her own as she had Zeru once a long time ago. Myrria perhaps wouldn’t be so pleased nor Kweku likely wouldn’t be pleased with a pup at her side. Perhaps he would be more inclined if it was a pup of his own but still she was curious how to the young boy would react and still she flashed a tooth to caution him.