Blacktail Deer Plateau Bufferzone

Burke had been acting on instinct when he was younger. Behaving very animalistic in a certain way to put dominance over one other. But once he learned about the care of what pups meant he had stopped. The later generations were only fathered by Darius and not by him. But he didn't feel the need to justify that to Bullet. He had to smile when she called him a honest bastard. He didn't take offense in it. Since what he did in the past was quite a bit of a bastard move. He wasn't even realizing that the ripple of him leaving had created a tsunami of disaster and devastation on the pack he called home before. 

Her question was a good one. Because did he really change? He had been broken by the one wolf he was closest too. He never took on a mate since he didn't feel a connection or point of interest towards any female before. Surely Meldresi interested him but she was definitely off limits. And Bullet, she was also a point of interest. He was still providing for a pack, harder than any other member of Black Feather Woods. But he kept more to himself. He socialized with his packmates but always focussed on them not on himself. "I think the change comes naturally. The only real change is that I stopped letting loved ones use me. Anyone use me. I decide if I want to help or give someone council." Still, Burke did feel a bit broken. But he wasn't going to share that.