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"I just couldn't do that Citali." No. No he could not have. That was why they were here in the first place. His mercy was a nobel thing, perhaps misplaced, but there was naught to do for it now unless Saena and Reek mutually decided to so anything about it. She simply followed and did as she was told. Well, mostly. There were things like running that she would only do out of pure necessity.

"Oh, I've met Regina," she murmured, looking to him now that they were at a break in his administrations. "She might be bright, but even if she were taught, what wolf would accept care from a coyote when they are known for their deception?" Another coyote maybe. A wolf would likely be convinced they were out to kill them. "You could raise them. Teach them. But despite all that, they would forever be on the outside looking in." She sighed. "What a sad little life. To be so close and yet always so far..."

Her words trailed with a sense of whimsy as their conversation dissolved into silence. He broke it eventually, reminding her that she would have to rinse it. She reclined more fully into the water and leaned so the he could splash water over it or so that she could lower herself into it, which ever he preferred. At least now she was near certain it wouldn't fester. She could only hope it wouldn't leave a more permanent scar.

"What is your end game, Reek?" she asked again. "What is it you hope to accomplish in keeping them?"