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Vilkas eyes the woof elf with distain and distrust. Same wood elf form Solitude and like her he could tell what she was as she to him. "None of your buisness elf. Move along." He wans't in the mood to deal wiht a chatty little tree hugging elf, he already had to deal with the new 'Harbinger' such as he was. The last thing he needed or wanted was to have a elfing sticking her nose were it didn't concenr her. 'Maybe if pretend I don't reconize her in the least she'll go away.' He thaught hell he barely even remebered her from Solitude save that when he had told the gaurd off he caught the undyinalbe sent on her, and that was it. "You also outnumbered to walk away."
Of course maybe if he was lucky she'd make a mistkae and he'd have an exucse to take his anger out on something living. The little wolf pup wans't a large concern but he didn't want to have to worry about it sutmbing out into the snow with him and possibly gettign shot with an arrow.

"You know," Sonja walked out of the Sancturary and over to Shadowmere, who looked as if she knew already what had ahppened. "I have a feelign I just offered my hide up on the carving board." The horse simply gave her a knowing look as she pulled herself up onto the saddle. "Your good at keeping secrets yes? Consider this oen ours." She told the horse while lighlty kicking her int he side sot make her move.
'Astid finds out I'm dead. Her husband will rip me to peices beofre I cna even pull back if I"m lucky.' Part of her dreaded the thaught but the other part, felt no guilt whatsoever at what she had done. Despite eeverythign she allowed the Fool to make her fight with him .. beliable in hch she had sevrle 'wounds' on her. Shadowmere's pace was brisk and steady and Sonja had to wander if Arjeon had stukc around to see if sh had done the deed, if he had she might have to contend with the conssuequnces sooner than she wished to.

'Annoying elves always sticking their noses were it doesn't belong.' Vilkas thaught but held his tongue before saying anything. "None of your buisness again Elf. Move." He said doing his best to keep himslef civil. The elf was tiny little thng, lik most elves in fact, but she was a wood elf and knew that at range she did hold an advantage, assuming she was able to hit him before he reached her of course. Twenty yards between them, she had a better chance of hitting him than he did her, though depending on her accuracy...
"This pack and it's buisness are none of yours." Perhapes the littel elf woudnt be trying to inch her way forward if Farkas was there a** well, though knowing Farkas he may be more civil and thus nicer to her but he wouldn't ket the elf near the camp.

The ride down south was slow and Sonja prefered it at the moment. She glanced over her shoulder form time to time looking for .. well anything that resembed possilby Arbrejon or even Cicero. The wolf had a head start on her for home and Cicero had for all intensive purposes remained in Dawn Star. But that didn't mena he was going to be there permanently. The cuts and bruises litttering her body stung and hurt with every step the shadow horse made but it was berable nonetheless.
The whole situation was making her head spin Astrid had abonded the tenits yet Cciero remaiend in upholding them yet when he snapped Astrid decdies that they are back again. She was breaking and oberying one tenit no matter what, evne now having spared the Fool she upheld one and seeming broke another.
"Ugh my head.." She muttered lighlty rubbing her head after wipping some snow from her hood. "Least I don't have to worry about you telling anyone." She glanced at Shadowmere who simply snorted in response. "I'll take that as a yes."

'Moon Born and a hunter who's willing to share their kill... unlikely.' Vilkas thaught while still sizing the elf up he thaught she was small but than he reminded hismelf that all elves were considered small by Nords. "We're fine." He said simply. He'd let the Lone Wolf pass by as she was n threat to him or the ohters, she was significantly outnumbered.
A loud noise form inside alerted him that someone must have accidenlty woken Farkas up and he responsed by whacking whoever did it.
"You can leave." For whatever reason Farkas and everyone always said he was the talkitive one of the twins presnelty Farkas was looking more chatty than him. Vilkas breifly wondered if the Elf's present refusal to backdown was a female wolf thing, Aela was the only female wolf he knew and all other women he considered to be justehtier boring, simply or just to confusing to even start caring about.
'And this is what happens when your out and about and realize you have no interactional experiance witht eh oppoiste gender of your species..... Aela is hardly a good example to use here.'

Traveling at night in the snow wasn't her prefered method but at the moment Sonja hoenslty wasn't feeling the bitting cold like she would normally. shadowmere was walking a decent trot, technically she could have been back at the Sanctruary long ago but she chose to take her time returning.
Bame it on her injuries when she returned.
The distent howling of wolves didn't even bother her. Woves, wind and the distent but all to familiar sound of a dragon. She pass a small group of people traveling who gave her odd looks of which she gave them cold stares. 'Lucky them I'm not in the mood.' They looked to ragged and poor to have anything of true value on them for to bother getting her blade bloody over.
The cold wasn't helping her wounds or her mood any etheir.

Whiterun

The trip back to Whiterun, thankfully, was uneventful save for the little wolf pups offcasionally scampering off to investigate every little sound and smell. Vilkas had ended up caring his the majority because it was far to small to make the journey on it's own small legs, Farkas and Aela were in similar situations. Zev's = being the monsterous thing it was walked right along side Zev without a problem. Each Companion had a different mood set walking into the city...
Vilkas wanting to hit or kill the next thing that provocted him. Finding that annoying Wood Elf at one point in time and maybe hanign her in a tree he hand't decided yet.
Aela wanted to get out and teach her new little shadow to hunt and fight for herself.
Farkas was hungery.
"Bout time this trip was over." Vilkas muttered seeing Jorvaskir coming up on them. There was some relife for them, Kodlak was cured and had finaly gotten what he searched years for. Though that still didn't make them feel all that much better but they were all alive and thus they had to move forward.
After all they had a new Harbinger ...
"So you settled on Bane for the gient thing?" Farkas asked Zev while looking at the hulking Dire Wolf that was for all intensive puposes still a pup itself. By Talos how big was that damned thing going to get! How much was it going to eat!

Astrid had practically enbraced her apon return and after informign her of Cicero's death. Astrid praised her for her skills at being a born assassin and somehow it seemed acutally genuine yet Sonja felt uneased.
'She'll try to kill you just as she is with me.'
Cicero's words were oddly haunting and at time he sounded sane as any other person which made her wonder on top of everything if his 'Madness' was just a farce. An amazing cover if that were true.
Astrid had ushered her to Bobette to get her numerous injures taken care of. the un-child was as gentle as a mother when tending her and just as strick if Sonja squirmed fom a stinging aointment. "So the Fool is dead than?" She asked.
She knew this was coming."Yes." She said simply.
Bobette simply gave a hum as she worked but her expression gave nothing of her inner thaughts.
"The Listener killing the Keeper, there's a development I never thaught woudl happen." She finally spoke but it wasn't in some accusing manner that would make Sonja wonder if Bobette was aware, it seemed far more ... somber as if she was rembering something.
"I was told to kill him, so I killed him. Simple." She wasn't sure if she liked where this was going or if maybe Bobette's seeming dip into memory was the cause of her unease.
"I'm not doubting your skills or loyalty, you've proven yourself time and time again to this Family and Astrid. Your one of use now in blood and death and beyond now Sister." Bobette had moved to stand in front of her to treat a slash near her neck, the cuase had nothing to do with assualt.
'Always goes back to Astrid. First before Sithis and first before the Night Mother. First before Keeper and first before the Listner.' Recenlty that reality had been making her angery.
'The Listner rules.'
Yet Sonja felt more used than she could ever recall feeling in her whole life.

Farkas looked down at the little wolf pup lightly squirming in his arms, it was simply tyring to sniff and smell everything all at once. It's little tail was wagging so hard Farkas brefily wondered if it was going to to flying off. "Well let's see," Farkas lifted the pup up to be eye level with him which made it's icy blue eyes lock wiht his silver ones. The pup's wagging tial halted breifly as if having a silent conversation with Farkas. "He says his name is Wraith." Farkas said after a few more seconds, the pup gave a yip of approval and it tail ressumed the insane speed of wagging. "Might need to keep these gusy away form Carlatta's stall, and her chickens. She'll skin them alvie and beat us to death." Farkas noted Wratih's sudden shift in attention went to the widowed stall vendor.
Aela at one point had walked on ahead of them and had fallen into stride with Vilkas, who unsurprisngly was silent as ever. Thoguh Aela wans't a fool to think his silance menat all was well. "Not my place shield-brother to say anything but, you've been evne quiter sense .." She didnt need to say it, hell Vilkas's shift in mood wasn't all that surpisng what surpsied and even scared her was that he had been so eeriely clam and in controal. Vilkas was infamous for having a temper and Kodlak's death hadn't helped. Vilkas's mood and mind were his own but Aela was more than concerned as he hand't uttered a word about Kodlak sens ehtey had left Whiterun nealry a week before, hadn't barely said a word in fact unless he needed to. He spoke to Farkas, unsrupsingly, but that was hoenslty it.
"How I deal with my own matters isn't your buisness." Vilkas said simply while the wolf in his arm gave a small grunt as if silenlty agreeing with his human. Aela's own tempter hadn't been alltogether pleasent but Vilkas had seemed to downright turn mute, and when he did speak it was angery, more than usual.

Week Later

The Reach was as fogged and mauntinous as Sonja remebered. The head Cheif at Stonemist Keep in Markarth knew the identiy of the Gourmet, she was to get the information and remved him , loose ends and all that as Festus had put it. A light drizzle in the fog made the yards in front of her diffiuclt ot make out but Shadowmere seemed to know where she was going. The distant roaring of two dragons caused her to halt her progression to listen. Her head titled to the left listneing to the sounds of wings, roars and battle. Somehow she wans't sure how exaclty she knew what they were 'saying', a simple disagreement it seemed. Shadowmere gave a snort which braught her atention to the road again.
She had passed a small group of Imperials soldiers earlier and had done her best to nt repeat what had happened iwht the Stormcleaks, she was on a tight scheudle this time. They had given her odd looks and she didn't give them a glance.

"You don't like Skelitons do you?" Farkas asked Zev as he pulled his sword form the Necromancer's body. The Dark Elf had been more difficult than they had origonally thaught, but than agin they should have known a bogged down mage would pull out all the stops. Skelitons were more annoyign than anything, but sitll very dangeorus if you underetimated htem soly becuae they never stopped coming after you. Their splintered and brittle bones caked wiht rot and posn didn't make them anymore pleasent.
Farkas had wanted to bring Wraith but had stopped himself at the last minute, soley becuase the little pup was still far to small to be able to fight itself. Bane though had come galloping with them and had taken a few thralls down himself to which the wolf seemed very proud of. "Your wolf is big enough to kill skelitons at not evne a year old, hate to see him fully grown at two.." Farkas thaught wathcing said wolf happliy chew on a skull till it shattered.

Farkas had to think about his answer, sense he himself didn't really know the intimate detials. "Basically yeah I guess you could all it a side-effect or somethign like that. Or I guess a marking so others of our kind now at glance rather than sent, well that's how Aela and Vilkas explained it. I just sorta shrugged and accepted it." He admitted hell not evne Vilkas and Aela knew the deep secrets of being Moon Born, not even Koldak did but he doubted it was possible to understand fully a Deadric blessing, or curse. "Yours havne't changed yet, but could be cause your also the Dragonborn, maybe yours stay the same... or it happens far later?" Farkas thaught alloud. But at the mention of food his own stomach growled loudly. "And my stomach agrees with you in getting some food. There's a good Inn a mile or two from here good food. Vilkas and I stopped by there a few months ago coming back from a job they were also happy about the bandit harassment we removed os they tend to give us a good rate." 'Or maybe I'm thinking to much with my stomach.' Farkas though wanted out of the cramped dark cavren just as much if not more so than Zev did, places like this ... always made his skin crawl ina bad way. also the unsetling dreams that fallowed were never pleasent.

Sonja was being honest with herself in admitting she wasn't entirly certain how she was goign to pull this off. She had a few ideas but hand't settled on which one would grnat her the best chance of getting out unnoticed and unharmed. A few thaughts sprang to mind about her approch and entering the Keep and dealing with Anton would be easy.
'Give him a squeesh and he'll squack the information.'
The light fog had liften and gave a slightly stronger drizzle than when she had arrived in the city. No one seemed all that bothered by it, sense the Reach had serpatic rain which remined her of Daggerfall. A sudden and quick burst of homesickness came and left just like that. The gaurds wathced her as she walked through the market looking but not really looking at what was on display. Heading in at Sunset woul be better sense she couldslip in nd hopeuflly get the informaiton. Or maybe wiat fully till it was dark and surpsie him in his sleep where his fear would be at it's peek.
That one was sounding a whole lot more fun acutally.