Ankyra Sound manticore

caiaphas allowed her gaze to slide towards lasher's muzzle as he spoke -- his answer puzzled her. his sense of justice differed vastly from her own. where she would annihilate an entire nation for one perpetrator's justice, lasher would have seen to it the individual received punishment for their iniquity. perhaps this was the difference between kings and dictators -- between good men and bad.

"and what? she will have magically changed? your beatings will show her the falseness and error of her actions?" she cut the male a look that told well she knew the futility of the notion of justice and nobility. "if you beat her, you give her a reason to return to finish the job she started." the she-wolf sighed heavily, weighing the options before her. "that's if we find ferahgo and if he gives us what we want. want if he says no? do you negotiate with wolves responsible for savaging your home?"