Reagan
Say something, I'm giving up on you.
She has been waiting for his moment - biding her time.
The last time Reagan saw Romek, he was handing her the keys to the forest, and then with tired eyes, she watched the tiger walk away from his responsibility, turning over the sense of power and guardianship of the forest to the one who would, at the very least by proxy, watch it all fall to piece.
Reagan has paid a heavy price, and the guilt she carries had silenced her presence in these lands for the years that she has been raising her daughter.
And yet, when the time came, she had known that the tiger would return. In those last days. Beqanna's magic precluded in such ways that goodbyes pretty much always come around, and in her heart she knew that this would be the last time she saw Romek, formerly of the Tundra and the Taiga. Even so, the moment she feels his presence, she steps into the void, watching the exchange of a wolf, and then her king - a prick inside his mind and the warm flooding of her power would show memories of him with her daughter, to which the Grey lady finds great offense - And yet she watches, and waits.
They come, one by one - the muscle, and then the crown, and when all is settled, and before the tiger can make his pleantries, Reagan releases her hold on Warrick's mind - with intent to inform him later of his transgressions - and steps out of her invisible bubble, a cold look resting in her eyes. "Romek. I knew you would come one day. But even the passage of time cannot pin down precisely when. Especially with a roaming tiger such as yourself."
She waxes poetically, as is her way when she is on an official visit. Her grey body is short and stalky, but her brilliant green eyes pierce and throw metaphorical daggers directly at the black stallion with the bioluminescent spots. For a moment, the other two are forgotten. They are there to protect Tephra. Reagan is there to protect her heart.
Where was Romek when Ruan cast her out? Where was Romek when Gryffen inserted himself as the Ghost King of the trees? And where was Romek when Carnage had seen fit to tear down all they together had built... Where was...
"Where have you been? I have been waiting for you."