Duskfire Glacier A check up from an old friend

Manauia's ear flickered at her words, and irritation filled her.  A low rumble escaped.  "That right there.  That is why I can't stand your kind." The wolf's sickly tone, and those words that were so obviously a sham to convey her newfound 'strength' and 'taking the high road'.  "You aren't grateful to us, so don't bother.  Accept the truth... If you are happier now, that wasn't our intention, and don't pretend it was."  Courtesies were for the false to preen themselves and one another.  She wasn't going to play into what she saw as a pointless waste.

"Don't credit others with the blame or gain for a situation that you are in.  They have no control over you.  You do."  It was the same thought she had held when the woman had spoken of her past.  Allowing others to influence you unwillingly never ended well and shows a serious character flaw in her opinion.