Who's gonna stop me when I'm comin' through?

@Stjörnuáti @"Thalia" @Solpallur

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At last, she wandered back to the base of her mountain. She pissed on its border for good measure, scratching at the ground. Whatever had happened to her in the past eight days had been a mess, but she was at last free of the scent of Lord Kuhn. She had rolled in several dead things. She had journeyed around the mountain in a wide circle. And, finally, she had returned home.
 She doubted anyone would have missed her presence. She was clearly a sore to their regality and diplomatic arrangements that she had never been made a part of. A piece of her began to wonder, if she was so focused on what they would think of her, if perhaps she did not belong to this place at all.
 The fire sister had decided, at some point, to tell her brother of the event. She did not know when or how. She had decided she did not care if she would be ousted, for if she was, she would destroy him.
 After finishing her pee, she ascended the mountain.

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 Picking through a cache, she pulled out and swallowed a rodent that had been dead for several days. As she was doing so, Thalia came behind her and demanded an answer. Valmúa, straight-faced, turned toward her red-branded friend and did not hesitate in snapping her teeth close to her face, growling rather aggressively before pulling back.
 “Fuck if I need to answer to you,” she hissed, though the tone behind it was more I missed you too, asshole than serious.
 “I took a shit on Shiroshika's lawn.” She answered. This, of course, hadn't taken her a week to do. However, she grinned and delighted that she was at last able to share with with someone who would probably appreciate it. That little white empress and her ass-licking companion could enjoy the smell of her asshole as long as they wanted. Despite getting caught in the act, she would happily do it again.

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 Valmúa was not dull-witted, and moved enough out of the way to have teeth scrape by her cheek and clang in her ears. She did not like this, but this was not about rank. She had never cared about rank. Rank meant nothing unless you were the complete and full empress, like the little one at Shiroshika. What a dream to have her friends and family do as she willed it. But it would not be so, not here.
 Owe her. Thalia, the dragon as her brother called her, was hardly the sort of scales and myth. She was more of a privileged bitch that the sister happened to usually enjoy the company of. The idea that she might owe Talia more than the news of a turd on a neighbour's doorstep was pretty rich, considering it had been Valmúa herself who had gotten Lord Kuhn to spare her hide. Still, there was part of her that admired her tenacity and cantankerous nature.
 “Stars, fífl — idiot, do you not pay any attention? There are wolves on the mountain across from us, and they are rivals.” She sighed, nodding, scrunching her brow and nodding to further to show she had more to say. “You are not wrong, I should have told you before — but the gift the suncat gave to us, the rivals at the other mountain, Shiroshika, they were not happy. I went to find out more. I did not want you with me.”
 Valmúa, for all of her tricks, was quite blunt with those she trusted, generally.
 “You should have left if you were bored — I always do.”

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 Valmúa, being largely indifferent to the happenings of others unless it directly affected her, did not understand Thalia's outrage. She acted as a child, tantruming that she did not speak their tongue and this and that. The red women were a strange pair. Valmúa had never had a problem with language, but she sort of understood the frustration around her brothers — it was rare that they spoke in the common tongue, and clearly Thalia hadn't picked it up the way that the sister hoped she might.
 “Not my fucking job to be your translator,” she spat, hackles raised. They were remarkably similar in some ways, however, and it was pretty quickly apparent when Valmúa "attacked" her friend with an open mouthing of her face. She even threw an arm over the red woman as though fighting with her and hugging her at the same time.
 Pulling back, she shook her head. “Why are you such a pain in the ass?”

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“Nor should you be,” answered the firebrand. Valmúa and her brothers had little care for shows or dominance and rarely even acknowledged their leadership positions around other pack mates. The sister had always been a physical creature, showing all manner of emotion through touch. This time, it seemed not to quell the rising tides of Thalia's dissonance. Snipping her teeth together and reaching out toward the haughty dragon, she did not try to poke her again, despite the desire to mouth her.
 Valmúa had thought about telling the dragon about her little escapade with the Lord of the Everfrost. It seemed that today, Thalia was not in a listening mood. She would have to keep such chatter to herself, no matter how deliciously intense it might be.
 Moving toward Thalia's side, Valmúa shifted herself so that she was sitting quite close to the autumn-toned woman, but not touching. “You and I could do greater things than them.” The observation was said factually while Valmúa stared ahead of her, unmoving. It was not an offer, it was not a promise, and it was not a voice of dissent.
 It was truth.

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 Valmúa knew, at that point, that Thalia was unlikely to stay with them for much longer. It started to feel almost as though her friend was creating reasons to leave them, and the fire sister wasn't going to stop her. She wondered, briefly, what might happen. She wondered what was pushing her over the edge. She didn't fully believe that it was the language barrier that Thalia had cited.
 She laughed. “Tweedledee... Tweedledum. What,” she laughed, finding these two words so absurd and having no context as to their origin. It seemed like the sister was not going to win over anyone today, but to be honest, she wasn't so sure that she needed to.
 “If you are not a follower, then who will you lead?” She eyed Thalia briefly from the side.

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I really don't understand where time goes - I'm gonna wrap this since I think it's natural and they're both in very different places IC now
Would love a fresh one though!!

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 Valmúa hadn't really been ready for any of this bullshit. She'd come here to be around people she normally felt close to and potentially tell them what she had been up to, but Thalia made it extremely difficult. Everything always had to be about her, and not on a good way. She was too smart to be doing what she was doing, but too stupid and lazy apparently to lead or do anything else of use. Valmúa did not know what would become of her, and at the moment, she was having difficulty caring at her friend sneered and snarked at her.
 “Do you?” She hissed, having had enough of this melodramatic garbage. “I do not know what the fuck makes your poppy ass so special,” she borrowed a phrase her family had used on her here, “but anyone can follow. If you cannot, and you cannot lead, you are shit.”
 At this point, she was snarling facially, but was not willing to fight, so she backed up, abandoning her friend to whatever the fuck solemn bullshit she was feeling. “Bye heimskr — dumbass,” she spat, waving her tail and wandering away unless she was stopped. Her foreign word was intentional, now that she knew how much the dragon hated when she spoke her native tongues.

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