Heron Lake Plateau We are young, we have years ahead maybe

Awkward because I’m phone-posting lol

The healer believed in her heart of hearts that Screech wanted to be a good person, and in spite of how he’d made her feel recently, there was still a measure of love in her for him. But that didn’t erase the fact that he could be extremely selfish and immature, so thoroughly caught up in his own victim complex that he couldn’t see that everything he said he wanted was being offered to him.

She shrugged a little hesitantly, a troubled and slightly sad expression on her face, and said somberly, ”The only wolf in this pack that Screech truly cares about is Screech.”

She shook her head a little and a smile touched her lips as she refocused her attention on Niamh. She had no desire to sit here and bad-mouth her brother or darken Niamh’s day with rumors and gossip. She relaxed into a sphinx-like position, no formality or authority whatsoever in her body language. She was at ease and she wanted her packmate to feel comfortable with her. ”So tell me — how was your trip with Tegan?”