Of all the rank meetings, it is perhaps the Sneak one that Volterra dreads most. Warriors he adores, crafters, healers and wise ones he's ignorant of yet eager to learn, but thieves...he has spent his life abhorring them, and now he is about to consult with them. He can't deny the role that they play within the herd, but also can't help the niggling voice in his mind that tells him a warrior can do everything that a thief can and better.

All the same, he's beside Ampere the second the Mother of Companions makes clear her intentions. In the aftermath of the meeting he'd attended Victorina's birth, and there's a proud, fatherly glow about him as he marches alongside his Sultana. From the somewhat soppy, emotional side of watching a new child of his enter the world, it's now time for the cold, formal business of herd politics. Volterra accepts both parts of himself equally, and can switch between the two with relative ease. The authoritarian warlord that calls the sneak meeting is a whole different man to the one who lets his children tug on his ears and hide between his mammoth legs.

He watches Ampere's spark-creatures fly out to collect the sneaks, and grins to each as they arrive. He can't help but notice Sunjata's comment towards the Sultana, and it makes a frown dart across his muzzle because he knows those sort of comments. The titan is fond of the winged sneak, but he also can't fight off a frisson of jealousy as he wonders whether the two have dallied. It's truly none of his business if so, but still, a man can wonder....He tries to focus instead on Sunjata's question regarding Saoirse's missing mother, which is a task he's keen to throw himself bodily into. "She is a pegasus, middling height, with rose grey fur and a brown mane and tail. One of her ears is tattered, which should make her easy to spot." His frown deepens. "It is important that we find her, as her son needs his mother, and she is our sand-sister. I would advise gathering intel on whether she has moved into one of the other herds - whilst I doubt she would abandon us or her son for so long, it may help to rule it out before we search the rest of Helovia." And if she had abandoned her son by choice....he's not sure he wants her back in his herd.