Nadya Tetradore

"They'll be so happy to see you." It was the only comment she would make on the matter since she could tell by the tensing of his form that the subject was a tender one. There was no other place that Nadya wanted to be in that moment though. Beneath the full moon and stars, with her brother and her children, set the recently irritable panther at such ease. It felt like a huge weight had been lifted from her chest. While in the back of her mind there was the knowledge that it would all go away come tomorrow, for the moment at least, there was completion. This was her family as she wished it to be. The deep purr still vibrated her form as her golden gaze slid lazily over to Izzy nomming on Aiden's leg and his subsequent yowl at her. Her daughter was in no imminent danger and as such didn't even flinch the slightest at her scolding. The small spotted kitten did however, unaccustomed to the sounds of their uncle. Izzy's small body jerked back as if she had been smacked by the yowl to tumble onto her back with her ears back and eyes wide in surprise. She remained stilled there for a moment before flailing about to gain her footing once more. The moment of surprise was gone and replaced with the spunky kitten, coat fluffed as she hopped back at Aiden, all four paws leaving the ground at once as she spit hisses. Her attempt to be intimidating was laughable at best but certainly entertaining.

Micah had actually accomplished his goal managing to climb up onto Nadya and though wobbly make his way along her form to her chest. The slope of her chest caused him to slide down to her neck and flop onto her face. Nadya's jaws parted, mouthing at the kitten with a soft playful grumble before she twisted out from under him. Once more Nadya was given to press her form against Aiden's, nuzzling into him as both pack and family bond dictated. The kittens had taken to wrestling with each other from the lack of continual interaction from the adults, or rather Izzy had turned her attention to pinning Micah to the ground despite his protests. Nadya perched herself in front of Aiden, her long tail curling around herself, as she kept the top of her head pressed against her brother's shoulder. "I've gone on patrol a few times...but I don't want to go out there anymore. I-..." How was she to explain to him about everything that had happened? Not just running into the stallion with Jackal but the encounters with him leading up to this moment. The chaos of emotions that had been invoked within her wasn't something she wished to share with her brother...he wouldn't understand, she was sure of it. Their experiences have been so drastically different from each other. "I saw Him."

The bond between packmembers that gave the ability of them to memories, to share knowledge, was one that Nadya had despised and never used. She disliked the feeling of her mind being invaded and forced to see things she may not have wanted to see. However, in this moment, it was necessary. Nadya focused on that bond that attached the siblings as she recalled her run-in with the stallion. Though her run-in wasn't the only one that flooded Aiden's mind as the very thought of Frost harming someone so intentionally was immediately invoking her memories of how gentle and kind he had been. The image of the white stallion looming above Jackal and the screams and shudders he emitted by the large hoof bearing weight down on the delicate leg was immediately replaced by Frost standing in the apartment doorway holding up a toy for the twins and wine for her, his tender touch on Izzy as he tried to clean the cake from her face, and his hand grazing over Micah healing his stitched side. Nadya shuddered noteably as she concentrated on blocking her mind once more, recoiling her memories from Aiden to spare him from the onslaught of flashes and herself from the reminder of the emotions associated within those memories.

Her brother knew Frost had been around her and the twins before and after since the happening at the Ark. She had never sought out the blonde and had wittingly labeled him as her stalker. But she had tried, by living in the Ark, to remove him from even that facet of her life if only to make her brother happy and show that she cared about him. It tore the young woman apart for a reason she couldn't put into words...but she did it. Nadya remained stilled, unable to remove herself from her brother for fear of the look in his eyes; the sheer look of any disappointment as he had looked at her before would devastate her. "Please don't make me go anymore."