Hushed Willows Shall we play, Doctor?

To hell with anyone else!  He had all he needed right here.  Banner frowned.  A childish voice in her mind wanted her to say those things, but she knew better.  Stark needed support and he also needed to branch out.  Marauder's Keep had been a touch too far into isolationist territory and she knew it wasn't a good long-term strategy.  Politics required actual relationships with their neighbors.  Good politics, anyway.  He'd excel at that, though - he always had when it came to other wolves.

"I know," she replied seriously, not to the comment that she was right, but more that they needed to be careful.  Always careful.  It was frustrating that Banner and Stark were the only ones actually being careful in this whole drawn-out mess, but that was a rage-filled rant for another day and a different audience.  "We can keep do this.  You can keep us together."  She took a deep breath in and let it out slowly.  "If anyone disagrees, I'll slip right back to angry Banner," she murmured with a chuckle.  It was meant as a joke, but the internal truth behind it was agonizing.