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"Yes", agreed Saena, but her lips press tighter together as Scarlett's gaze sunk to her feet. The other woman's lack of self esteem, for that was how Saena took it, ought to have drawn more words to her tongue, but the alpha female wasn't one for helping others with their problems. Not because she didn't want to, but because she was ill-equipped for it and didn't know how to do it well. Since her youth, she'd focused primarily on her own woes, her own pain, and so empathy for others had fallen by the wayside. It was difficult to dredge up now.

So rather than addressing Scarlett's look to the ground, she chose to focus on talking about her daughter. "Well", she mused, "any motivation is good motivation, right?" Having not known Desna as a young pup, Saena had no idea that the charcoal juvenile had been quite fat. She was still somewhat plump, but mostly she was just promising to be big. A boon to the pack, surely, especially if she did develop into a strong hunter. "Do your other daughters have any interests?"