"...You can't push it back an hour or convince Senescence to watch him?" Zakiyyah asked, wiping a paw down her face as she gave a heavy sigh. Of course, she immediately contradicted her own question by waving him away with a paw. "Go, go. I'll keep him occupied. If somehow this backfires and I die some horrible death, just know that I'm haunting you." She was joking about the death part of course, but entirely serious about the haunting. The enforcer was a hundred percent blaming her littermate if their younger sibling murdered her.

Speaking of siblings, the tall feline turned to face him. Zakiyyah, for her part, was incredibly tall. Taller than Glowstar and Sean, even taller than Senescence, though by comparison, she was significantly more slim and pretty than the demonic Proxy. Too innocent china doll blue eyes peered at the younger tom, piercing and sharp despite the veil of naivety. "I'd ask you to introduce yourself, but I already know you well enough, Duskslayer. But that's fine. I'm more curious as to if you know who I am."

"Well, I gotta give you credit for paying attention in your 'dead to me' relatives class." She mused. Honestly, it was both surprising, yet not, that he'd recognized her. As far as appearances went, she certainly was striking. Ebony fur, with an auburn 'dress' of sorts around her middle and cut in a deep V shape down her chest, with two gloved white forepaws, a tiara of blood and a spray of rusted freckles across her cheeks. Not exactly the fade into the crowd type, and yet, somehow, she managed it. If she hadn't been caught by Innocentia, no one would probably have even known for certain she'd helped out the Shadow era cats.

Guess she was an amazing spy, after all. Not that she'd been all too busy. Mostly, she had been hanging around her littermate and little else, keeping her head down. So much for that, if Dusky now had a face to a name and history. "Yep, definitely his littermate, but you knew that. So, tell me, then, 'brother dearest'. Do dear old mom and dad talk about us, or are we just that taboo a topic? Oh, and how is life in the Regime compared to a cult?" It was hard to tell if she was genuinely interested in his life, or just sarcastic and searching for weaknesses to use against him in one way or other.

"Not surprising. If Shule and Sean had it their way, we'd be scrubbed from the family tree altogether. And, effectively, I guess we have, since no one sees fit to acknowledge us but the other side of the family. Mmm, pity. You didn't answer my question though, don't think I didn't notice. I'll get to rules and regulations in my own time, if I feel like it. A lot can happen in a few minutes and hours, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you." Zakiyyah was a hard cat to read, and a harder cat to distract. She spent her youth training to read cats in the Regime, and her life in the League trying to keep track of the Proxies, including the things they didn't want her to know, to make sure they were doing their jobs.

"Before I answer, I suppose I should have you clarify. What does it mean to be an Eerie?" Zakiyyah returned the question with one of her own, curious as to his definition of what it meant to be part of their particular family. It wasn't really something she herself had considered for too long, so she supposed she wanted his answer in turn to build her own answer off of his. Could she have refused to answer? Yes, of course. But she didn't particularly expect much trouble from Dusky. She was relatively confident that if not her, someone, would have him dead before he made it to the borders anyhow, if necessary. Not that she thought their mother would react well to the news of her having a part in his death.

The enforcer dared to look amused by such an answer. Surprisingly simple, to be honest, albeit a bit surprising given which side of the family he had been born to. Then again, he'd been raised largely by Glowstar, in and out of SunClan from a young age. Perhaps it wasn't so strange that his perspective was unusual when compared to someone Regime born and raised, even if bearing the same parents.

She leaned back to consider it, her expression not shifting even a fraction as she simply watched him. Was she enjoying being part of the Eerie family? "There's pros and there's cons. It's not a question I've considered enough to give you much of an answer." Zakiyyah stated. "Certainly, the situation has far too much nuance for a simple yes or no. I suppose a concise, but not necessarily helpful, answer would be that I don't often feel like an Eerie." She knew she was part of the family, yes. But after leaving with Kotori, she'd sort of mentally separated herself from her family. Even knowing Lucistic and Senescence were her cousins, she wouldn't necessarily have considered herself 'part of the family' so how could she give an accurate answer when she had none?