Ocean's Breath Plateau until his feet bleed and

His huffy words were not a surprise and she couldn't help the teasing smile that slowly formed on her face. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply you were a child, she said with an incline of her head. I was only trying to be helpful, she added with a small shrug. True she had never lead her own pack, but her parents were the beta pair of her natal pack, and they, along with the alphas, ran the pack with compassion and fairness; it set the precedent for how a pack should be run, at least in her eyes. 

Not leadership but not a subordinate seems kind of precarious, she offered with a inquisitive raise of her eyebrow. It seems like a difficult position to hold and like it would be very confusing to the actual subordinates, Speedy added. To her, his goal appeared a little unattainable, but to each their own. He didn't seem like the type to put any merit in the opinions of a stranger, so this was all probably pointless, aside from the fact that it was an interesting conversation. 

At least we agree on something, she replied playfully when he stated that no one would follow a leader that didn't care for them. The teasing smile returned to her face following her words.