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Leta stared up at the stars. It seemed strange, the way they moved. Leta both wanted to stay upon the mountain, knowing that they were safe here, and to see what others might have witnessed this phenomenon... what they knew of it. But with the children still young, Leta was aware that their eyes were needed to make sure they didn't have the same idea and get into harms way from it. Staying felt like the safest bet, and as she thought of it, she equally did not want to think of Osiris wandering beyond to check things out either.

The girl drew in a breath. She felt she understood Hydra a bit better, in that moment. Because she could understand now the fear of losing all that she had found, and... and loved. Leta blinked up at the sky, her eyes sparkling with the stars as the gravity of this sank in.
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She could hear him wearing grooves into his typical path when he felt a certain type of way about something. The imprints of his large paws would mark this mountain forever in those places. Leta turned to look at him as he circled around her, and then back to the sky again. A memory came to her then, and Leta blinked. A great man stood with her in her minds eye, so large that next to him any would like small in build. Dad, her mind recollected, even if she could not see very clearly his face. “I asked my dad once... if stars had names. He did not know. But... I thought that they must. Because they are like us, in a way. Some big, some small. Some stay within the sky, and some... fade out of existence,” though that point was melancholy, the memory was one she thought of fondly. “It was actually your family that taught me stars do have names,” she said with a laugh, looking to him now and rising to intercept the path he moved in, nosing him.

“Osiris has come to be my favorite star,” Leta quipped. “The stars do move. With the seasons change, usually. I have never seen them dance like this, but... it does not feel odd to me,” she admitted, “only new. The world... it is so old. This might not be the first time this has ever happened,” she considered, “only the first time we have been able to bear witness to it. Like... a celestial event,” she explained, licking her own chops as she again looked to the sky.
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Leta considered his question, and then nodded. “I think so,” she said in answer, tacking on, “like how a great storm can make us feel. A celestial event can bring about a similar feeling,” she supposed. She had felt strange, too, in a different way than storms. Not tense but... perhaps on edge, in a way that meant something was coming? That something had to be this. And she did remember how Osiris felt, too. Even before she herself had felt it.

“You must have a great sense for it,” at least, she thought so, that he had... “like your mothers keen sense of smell. Perhaps you can anticipate these events, somehow,” that was an interesting thought. Leta squinted at him, before quipping, “are your senses tingling now? ...still? Or have they stopped, now that this has happened?” It felt worth exploring. So, she would.
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That he was restless made sense. Since this event, she had felt the same... though not due to unease. It simply felt like... a tiding, to another beginning. Or some strange sort of confirmation. The semantics of it she had yet to really untangle and dive into, partly because of time and partly because it felt like a monumental task. There were so many unknown elements that it all felt like one big guessing game... but Leta did not mind fun speculations. It was definitely interesting to think about, though... confusing too.

His next question Leta hmm'd at. She frowned as she admitted, “you... you might have,” her voice quiet. It still shamed her that there were fragments gone, fragments that she felt she would never have forgotten if she could have helped it. At least Osiris knew that to be the case, versus the thought that she would ever ignore him when he spoke. Sometimes Leta could be forgetful, but not in things that mattered to Osiris. And not in things that had to do with him, either. Anyway... This felt like that. Something that must matter to him. So, she tacked on, “...would you... mind telling me again?”
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Leta seemed to remember as he told her. Her expression lit up. “Yes, when your mother wanted your aid in building this empire,” she recollected aloud, tail waving. Her mind conjured up a multitude of faces, but they were nameless and incomplete. Still, they had been there to help Osiris in his cause, and Hydra supported each and every one of them.

“You are so lucky that she came to you. I would have loved to have met my own grandmother, even in that way like you,” her tail waved. Leta asked, “what else do you know of her? Her blessing sounds important to you,” she thought aloud to him, tilting her head.
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Leta remembered very few things of life before here. It came to her in waves... but this... this she did not know. The name of her own father she could not even recall. She had thrown herself wholeheartedly at the family of Osiris for this reason, and clung so tightly to West for the very same. She became tightlipped then, though shook her head.

Her beau distracted her.

She was gllad for it, and these stories.  Leta knew she would never have the good fortune to know the dead, but they kept them alive this way.  Through stories. It made Amekaze as good as an immortal, in her books. And surely Hydra would be the same... Osiris, too. All who knew him loved him, and she was no exception.

“Maybe you will again,” she started, partially to comfort. But... “maybe at that same sort of time, she will come to tell you... you are ready again, or something. Perhaps your mother will want for the same thing. But... if I know her, she wants to make sure all is... well, safe,” here she might have laughed, were it not for the fact that she respected him and his mother both. She understood the necessity of that better than most, given the history she could remember.
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“What?” She asked, shocked. Leta had never known bears to be compassionate caregivers. They were takers. Of the things wolves often worked hard for. Leta was grateful to never have experienced an encounter with a bear; she knew she would need to be braver in life, because there was plenty of time left for that to happen. And what if one of their kids was taken by one...?

These thoughts were wild ones. Why was she thinking of kids? Their kids?

And now it was all her mind could think of.

How could she get her mind off of that? Osiris musn't know! “What... uhm... what happened to the bear?” She would chalk the distraction all up to shock, if asked!
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