The priestess turned her ruby eyes on her son,the Sheriff of the Warren and nodded gravely.<br/><br/>"This Hume, Taryn, was hurt badly in this battle was she?" she asked formally.<br/><br/>Before Raschen answered, Jax nodded,<br/><br/>"She was bitten by the Cotl's private guard. A very deadly form of viper. She had been in the process of changing into her water form and her water ran putrid until the Sheriff here was able to purify her, days later. Yesm, we have see the battle to end all battles. Me? I hope we can all live in peace for a long long time."<br/><br/>It was a rather long speech for the Hase. He knew that Raschen might  need  just a smidgen more time though so he spoke his peacee. Both to help delay the inevitable but also, to let the Kuguar priestess realize that enough was enough. Jax knew the fur was about to hit the fire and he wasn't looking forward to the results.<br/><br/>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br/>Lily hurried along. The night sky was bright with stars.She could tell that finally the atmosphere was beginning to clean itself up after all these generations of radiated pollution. Maybe someday they would have clean rain and clear flowing water again.Maybe the land would produce green grass and pure foods again. She had listened closely to the old grandmother bunnies, telling stories that their grandmothers had recieved from their grandmothers whose grandmothers could almost remember such a life. The only down side to that would be the question of the Hase and other Anthros would revert to the primitive state that they were before the apocalypse.  Just as she pushed open the door to Taryn's chamber she was stopped by a silky but strong paw on her shoulder.<br/><br/>"Let me, Miss Lily." the male voice purred close to her ear.<br/><br/>She recognized that voice. It belonged to the Sheriff's brother. Her blood ran icily down her spine. He took the tray from her,<br/>"After you," he said.