Firestone Hot Springs Is it getting any better

"As a friend - yes," Osprey replied hastily, not feeling quite comfortable with the sudden aggressive way Charon was addressing her. Whatever problems the young lad had with the leader of the plateau, she did not want to be involved. Ironically - she was the reason. No one had ever made her feel guilty or bad for having affection for somebody and she did not like that Charon thought her being a fool. 

"Your offer is very kind and I am proud of you for achieving so much, but I belong to the plateau wolves," she declined his offer in the most polite way possible, yet she somehow knew that Charon would take a "no" badly no matter, how well it was told. "Besides... I am an old wolf, but not that old yet," she tried to joke," there is not yet sand falling from me." To make her point she got to her feet, stepped back and shook her coat, hoping that it would be enough to even out the tension between them.