My c o l d desire
to hear the boom, boom,
b o o m of your heart

Animalistic. Perhaps that was why the Gods decided not to give the beast a voice. She never needed it, her body language spoke volumes of raw, uninhibited instinct that directed her far more than the intelligent mind that hide silently beneath her black pelt. Still, even she recognized the changes in her parents. Both of them had lost the sanity that they had made them more civilized than animalistic. For Caligula this was not a problem, but she knew that with time they would need a sound mind to lead them. Mother had kept more of her sanity than Father. Caligula could see it in his eyes. Yet, Caligula also knew that in time, there would have to be some sort of order to the chaos that was their minds.

Caligula would always protect those she loved. It was a mandate she had been issued when she had barely fit into the large paws that followed her mother to where one had ripped into one that Caligula herself had loved and who had betrayed her. If it wasn't for the fact that Caligula could not envision a way to kill him without hurting Mother, he would be dead. The way that she had slaughtered the unclean sibling. But Nero, Nero was hers just as much as she was his. The bicolored gaze, the perfect blend of mother and father within their hues, watched as he nuzzled her, a smile on his features and a sway to his tail.

It's only then that she decides to wade out into the waters that the waterfall above pounded into, getting to her chest before she glanced back at her father. She wanted to explore the lands that were reshaped and remolded much like her parent's mindsets. Who better to explore and learn the lay of the land than her Father? The night was brightly lit by a half a moon and so many stars that Caligula felt overwhelmed trying to count them. The constellations that the Stargazer were lost on Caligula. She depended on her own Seer, her beautiful moonlight sister was the only reason she needed to listen to. It was her convincing that had led them to safety and between the three of them, there was nothing that they could not conquer. She did not pause to see if her Father was following. She knew he would. He was hers, and she was his. When she reached the other side, she shook off the excess of the wet and sniffed the ground for any interesting scent that she could find to lead them on an adventure.