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As soon as Saena slowed and stopped, Junior tossed herself to the ground beneath the birch and began making herself comfortable. Meanwhile, she listened to her sister's words. She wondered what might have prevented Dante from allowing the young star to rise. Perhaps he had hoped to save the Alpha female rank for someone special, though that hardly seemed fair. Junior vaguely recollected talking to him about this very topic long ago, though she couldn't actually remember any of his answers on the matter.

"I'm glad you did too. Everything happens for a reason. It's normal for yearlings to strike out on their own. It's the whole 'this neighborhood ain't big enough for the both of us' mentality or whatever," the dark yearling drawled, voice getting even sleepier. "Of course not," she added, snorting and shaking her head at the Alpha's ridiculous question.

In fact, Junior scooted forward, essentially trapping Saena by laying her chin across the young Alpha's paws. She then began dozing right away, her mind untroubled and her sleep undisturbed despite all the havoc she had likely wrought by uprooting and coming here to Redtail Rise.