She was sure Zelda must know a lot and could teach her from what she'd seen and experienced so the past didn't repeat itself. She wanted to keep Dash safe more than anything. He was her soulmate and she'd be damned before she let anyone ruin that. Zelda must have picked up on something from her when she brought up the two year old party, but it meant a lot to Citlalli that she was using her information to warn and protect Citlalli rather than ask questions and find out who her imprint is. Citlalli would tell her in a heartbeat, cause she trusted Zelda and knew she would protect the information but at the same time, she didn't want to endanger Zelda by letting her know if some day that information could be used against them both. Citlalli did plan on rising into a higher rank some day and she knew that might put a target on Dash's back. She would protect him and her pack at all costs but Zelda was right. She needed to safeguard his identity as her imprint as much as possible.

Zelda seemed surprised when Citlalli told her what she did know about the Jinan/Paisley deaths but then Citlalli felt she was often protected from depressing information like that from her parents. Plus though Jinan was her mother's brother, her mother was still protective over him and his memory and probably didn't want to give her a lot of details because she didn't feel they were necessary for her to know. Tuari was always a mother first and she would protect her daughters no matter what. Citlalli knew that. She wouldn't hold it against her mother for not telling her nor her father if Tuari had cautioned him not to tell them more. Still, she wondered if now that she'd brought it up, if Zelda would tell her the rest or if she would feel maybe she shouldn't since Citlalli wasn't told in the first place. When she told Zelda what she knew, the alpha looked away, a pure face of sadness in her expression.

Finally Zelda spoke, telling Citlalli the generations and how each handled the loss of their imprint. Death seemed to follow death. Citlalli's brows raised. She hadn't known about Rhae and Iblis. She of course knew that her grandmother Moth had died some time back and left Coza but apparently she was much older than Coza. She could tell there was a part of her grandfather that didn't feel whole anymore because she was gone and she often wondered why Fate worked that way. Why didn't it allow some wolves to imprint again, something to fill that hole? Or did each individual wolf decide whether they could connect like that again with someone. Coza had loved Moth with everything he had. Citlalli had picked that up from their story times. There was a light in his eyes when he talked about her. She could imagine he would have chosen not to connect like that again. Too much of him had belonged to Moth. She knew that could easily happen with her and Dash.

She was growing closer to him by the second and she didn't want to stop. So that meant she'd have to protect him always. She might have to lie and she might have to pretend even that she didn't care to keep him safe. She wasn't born into decieving. The very idea of it stung her tongue. But she would do anything at the end of the day to keep him safe and well. She nodded, letting Zelda know she understood the message loud and clear. Zelda told her she'd heard it affected the male more than the female and she tilted her head, thinking back on her interactions with Dash. He certainly seemed more confused and affected by her decisions than she did by his so maybe that was right after all. "Amazing and terrifying. That sounds about right." She mused more to herself than anything before glancing up at Zelda. "Thank you for telling me. I feel better prepared to protect him now."

Zelda told her to keep it close and she nodded. She cautioned Citlalli against the alpha of Iromar, bringing up how he used children against their parents and she could see him using imprints in the same manner. The idea made her heart squeeze for a minute at the very thought of him getting ahold of Dash. She couldn't let it happen. When she met Zelda's gaze, it was with sharp determination. "I will take these words to heart, Zelda. Thank you again. I'll head to Spirane now and start my training. I will be worthy to be your Power when I return." She smiled, her eyes turning into that of a child once more as she rushed forward and embraced her aunt, pressing herself against her chest and legs as she licked her jaw before backing up. Then the guards came back up and there was no longer a child but a young adult, maturing fast into an indomitable force standing before her. She nodded. "Stay safe, until I can do that for you." With a small smirk, she turned and trotted toward the borders facing the mountains.