Blackfeather Woods Jailhouse Tango

"Exactly why I wish to keep him out." She thought back to her son, and how annoyingly insistent he was on coming down here and visiting Burke. It was a dangerous notion, since he might tear something in Burke if they starting sparring. He was going to have to learn patience until Burke was healed enough to perform physical activities.

"It is only natural that you feel restless, but it will not be long now before you are up and about." Cabin fever was a trait many of the active wolves who became her patients had. She was used to seeing it among those who came to her aid. "If you wish, you could walk around the tunnels to stretch your limbs." As long as he stuck to the tunnels, he was least likely to meet with her children; they were still traumatized from their first experience in Mephala's Web.

Meldresi was silent for a brief moment; she was never truthful about her relationship with Bane. Her silence increased after he had disappeared, and she never spoke of him, neither to her pack mates, or her children, who she believed had forgotten him long ago. "I have never been mated to anyone. I did not accept to carry his young, he accepted being the father of my children." She held the power in their relationship; it was her will that allowed Bane to be so close to her litter in the first place. Whether or not she harbored any feelings for him as a mate was unknown, even to her. It was like they just faded after he disappeared.