She found her heart was still racing in her chest, beating hard against its cage and pounding in her ears. Stealing was… horrifying, yet oddly satisfying. She guessed she could see why Tepi of all the wolves in her family enjoyed such a thing. He seemed like the type to enjoy the rush. This though was more delicate than what Zelda could risk her cousin doing, especially after the failing and fall back after he had tried and failed to take Arturio and Dirk into the pack. It had worked out, but this felt like a far more serious matter. Zelda wouldn’t have done it if it had been a pack member of Asteraia. To her understanding, and Teza’s panic, it didn’t seem as though the girl belonged there.
A little poking around and it was too clear she was being held there against her will and thus Zelda had jumped into action. Zelda wasn’t a fan of stealing, so it hadn’t been met with some hesitance of the Tavioran Guardian, she wasn’t sure how her rescue might be seen by the new alphess and if she even cared. It the wolf that had tried, and succeeded once, in taking one of her members was having a field day taking all sorts of wolves from their homes with little care of their feelings on the matter. This wolfess, Eto she recalled Teza saying, was just one of the many that seemed to be there.
Zelda turned to see if the young wolfess was still tailing behind her, though soon as they were closer to Taviora’s own borders Zelda had stopped finally. ”Eto right? You are free to go, you know.” The wolfess said softly her teal and mahogany cracked gaze setting on the white and strawberry fem through the darkness. It was still night, but dawn would break soon enough, Zelda was tired, she didn’t sleep at all as she anticipated this, but it was over, and finally her blood slowed and she stood wondering what the girl was going to do now, what she wanted. Zelda though was curious about this wolfess who did have a hold on her family member’s soul. She never seen the girl herself, and didn’t believe her cousin and the wolfess to be close, she had seen a lot of Teza ever since he was little, and now again that he was also her champion yet perhaps Teza thought much the same as Zelda had. Keep your imprint a secret, keep them safe.
”Teza had asked me to help you, to set you free again. We are pretty far away now, you should be able to cover your trail and not worry about them… for a while at least.” It was not Zelda’s goal to force the girl back into her own pack after all, far from. The times Taviora had stolen wolves it had mostly been for information not boosting numbers or really anything else. She wasn’t sure what else to say. Eto was safe, Zelda’s favor to her cousin completed what path they went on from here was up to the white and strawberry girl now.