Blacktail Deer Plateau My shadow falls against the wall

It took Osprey a little while to respond, and when she did, it wasn't the answer Saena expected. She expected her aunt to make a fuss about it being her business, or to claim that she did care about the pack and had made a dumb mistake. She half-expected the grey-haired woman to stand and yell at her. Osprey did none of these things. Instead, she sort of agreed.

Puzzled, Saena genuinely wondered, "then why are you still here if you don't care anyway? Why didn't you just go with dad?" This was a mystery Saena couldn't possibly guess at. If Osprey truly felt her pack didn't matter enough to follow wolf laws for, then what kept her tethered to the plateau? It couldn't be friends, Saena thought cruelly; Osprey's friends were the ones she had directly defied, so the younger Blacktail didn't imagine it had anything to do with them, even though this assumption was probably wrong.