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I CANNT WAIT ANYMOOOOREEEE

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The matriarch ventured out again to seek familiarity. Having told her family, old and new, of her intent, she ranged from The Nameless Mountain in the hopes of finding just that. For miles, there was no such thing; in some places, the scent of wolf seemed nonexistent. As if this place had never been touched by their sort before. Contrarily, the scent of prey was abundant; no doubt this would change once those [prey] began to become the hunted. Well fed herself for her families recent takedown of a goat, her energy levels remained high as she trekked on. 

It was a putrid scent on the wind that gave her pause. Familiar, that. A niggling sensation in the back of mind, encouraging. I know this smell. How? It was foul, but it did not provoke any negative feelings within her. On the contrary... a positive emotion was then evoked, which encouraged her to see the curious thing through. None but for her family stirred such feelings within her, so she had thought; so who might this be? Ranging in the mans direction, Hydra's gait was confident as her gaze searched for who she hoped to find.

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As he came into her line of sight, Hydra blinked; before her stood one of the most impressive men she had laid her eyes upon that she could remember, then. Her father had been large, but not quite so large as he... or had he been? A terrible thing, to feel the dead fading from reach. But to dwell on that then, while important, was second to the remembering that took place as she saw him. “Vengeance,” she remembered aloud, her voice fond as she recalled that he had been a comrade of hers. They had several common enemies... Enemies that she could not put her finger upon then. She imagined that if those enemies could not come to mind, she and he had been successful in their ventures. 

Hydra did not fail, after all. 

There was surprise to see him somehow; idly, she felt the thought I never thought I would see you again come to mind. It was unbidden, and she proverbially raised her wrist to elegantly excuse it with a gentle flick: nevermind that. He was here, was he not? And she remembered him. Her gaze peered over his shoulder, and she wondered aloud, “you are alone?” While his scent was undoubtedly horridly putrid, rarely was it just his own that she could remember upon him. Then again, maybe it was there then proximity. Who knew? 

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The matriarch could not help the grin that lit up her typically unreadable features as he spoke her name. A strange relief brought the euphoric feeling, as though she had never thought she would hear the words again from the man who stood before her. The feeling was strange, and for the life of her she could not understand it. He was here, after all, and alive... why should she not have? Even still, the relief was almost palpable. Perhaps it was simply because with all that was not known, his was a familiar face—and a presence Hydra had always enjoyed being around. 

He was alone, and Hydra felt curious as to the series of events that had led them both here. But the semantics seemed to matter less and less as what to do about it took precedence. “I am not,” she confirmed, moving nearer to him so that she could investigate his own scents as he did her own. These were curious times, and knowledge of either of their wanderings could only benefit them both. How far did this place stretch? Where had he... woken? Should he permit her the room to, Hydra would do just that while allowing him the same privilege—wisely guarded, less due to him and more due to all of the things they did not know of the environment around them. She was ever prepared to react to a threat that might present itself to them—perhaps even keen to. It might clear her head, some. 

Stepping away and circling around a squat little thornbush, she hummed, “have you been traveling long?” she inquired, wondering what he might have seen along the way to these particular heights.

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Only a day, and the second wolf he had met here. The first familiar face, though. Hydra echoed his sentiments, “as far as strangers go, I have only found one—upon another mountain. He knew little as to his arrival here,” she drawled, “it seems as though everyone arrives the same way... and none have yet to make sense of it. Myself included,” she admitted to him, loath though she was to do so. Hydra was determined to figure it out, one way or another—but it was not her top priority. Her ears twitched at his following inquiry, and Hydra informed, “several of my family. My son, Osiris, is here somewhere—but he has awoken not near the rest,” she had traveled as far as she had from home in hopes of finding him... and her wayward nieces, Ciri and Elke. 

She wondered if it was him Vengeance had found, though imagined if the name was familiar to him he would share as much with her. “Who was it that you found,” she wondered, “and did they have much to tell you about where we have found ourselves?” she inquired, curious as to that. Shifting her weight, Hydra wondered only if the stranger Vengeance had found had more answers than either of them seemed to... and if not, well,  it was nothing they could not figure out for themselves. Still, any knowledge was more. than none. 

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How frustrating; Hydra had hoped for more information, but could understand the lack of it at least. All would be revealed, in time. As far as fate smiling upon her, Hydra's tail lashed behind her. “Fate is a fickle thing,” she drawled, “smiling one moment, snarling the next,” her eyes flashed as she considered this. Yes, speaking it she knew the truth of that—fate had never ruled the outcomes in her life, though, had it? No, she had always been the master of her own. Could fate be thanked for the beginning here? 

Hardly. That was one hand Hydra might bite, should it come close enough to seek to feed her. Fate giveth, and fate taketh—for all it had given her, Hydra felt robbed for the way it kept things in the balance. What had fate done, to have brought her, and the rest, here?

Fuck fate. 

His question was answered with a shake of her head. “No, not here,” she answered, meaning the territory they stood upon. She gestured to the tallest mountain in the distance, humming, “there. The largest of them, closest to the river and the sea,” she informed. Curious, and hopeful, too, she drawled, “you will rebuild?” It would be nice, to be able to bring any one of their enemies, old or new, to their grave together, she thought.

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Hydra matched his grin, her eyes bright. Hydra was the same as she ever was, and whatever was missing within or without would be found again. It was, as ever, only a matter of time. He spoke of his own circumstance, and Hydra had every confidence in his ability to rebuild. There was a faint relief to hear that none of his old followers were with him—

There had to be a reason for that, she knew, but in her lack of disdain toward him or The Nightwalkers as a whole she fully believed it had nothing to do with him or the rest—

and so she did not need to think long at all on the answer to his final assumption. “Yes,” she drawled, “do let me know of any... inconveniences you encounter,” she hummed with a wave of her tail, “perhaps we might take care of one, or some, together.” Namely any old ones that might present themselves; but she hoped that those were truly dead and gone that she could not conjure them. Her memory was sharp, but this was what she attributed that much too. In any event, she would be pleased to kill with Vengeance were a wolf to present themselves a problem to their collective safety. 

Her children would need a safe world to thrive in, after all. His own, too... Her heart warmed, unbidden, and there was a flash of crimson in her minds eye that was gone just as soon as it had come. 

And all she could think of then was of conquests to come.

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