Phoenix Maplewood Look at all of these tears I've wept

Her tongue was already forming admonishments when she came upon Ukko. She wholly expected to bark at him to hit the ground, to show utter submission and prove to her that he wasn't some big-headed egotist—they already had one of those in the form of Arion and Saena was not keen on a second one—but he saved her the trouble by lowering his head, tail and ears before she even said anything. Perhaps he sensed the ire coming off her in waves and knew better than to say anything about it. Reek might've been a pushover, but Saena was moved easily to anger, and especially so when she'd found out that the alpha male had not only not punished Ukko, but had promoted him instead.

"You have no problem submitting to me," she noted, although the circumstances were probably different. Reek had been upset and probably not at his best when Ukko had challenged him, while Saena, in spite of her injuries, stood tall with sharply cocked ears. It was irrelevant to her. "Yet you seemed to think it's fine to challenge the authority of my mate, your alpha male, who stands beside me." Perhaps gender had something to do with it. Again she felt the knot in her stomach at the thought of Ukko trying to usurp Reek's alpha position. He was one step closer now if that was his end game.

"What made you think you had the right to show such utter disrespect to your own leader, Ukko, when you so willingly lower yourself for me?"