Phoenix Maplewood Hunger will drive you insane

Under different circumstances, Saena might've seen opportunity here. The chance to recruit someone, even if he wasn't exactly a catch. Yet she was disgusted with him instead, with his seemingly broken nose and his blatant disrespect for the pack wolves that had descended on him. He'd submitted, yes, but from the looks of it, it had been his last resort. Had she and Reek not arrived, would he have continued digging, trying to steal food from their mouths? Whether or not he would, Saena already decided he was a thief and probably a liar as well.

Saena was no murderer, though, and she remembered keenly the disapproval that followed in the wake of their attempt to kill Sebastian. She didn't want to disappoint herself, Reek or Nochtli like that again. So she stepped back, stiff and deliberate, enough to let Dash squirm away if he wanted to. "If I ever see you near here again," Saena snarled down at him, "you won't get a second chance." With that she stood ready. Dash would have his opportunity to escape from here with his life and very little injury to speak of, but she'd be right on his ass the whole time until he was sufficiently far enough away from their borders. She wouldn't give him the chance to double-cross her.