The Sentinels For there's one thing to be sure of, mate

She did agree, though she was perhaps more reasonable about it.  Dante could feel his anger and knew it was over the top - but he was not fond of being brushed off, not when he felt his advice had not even been heard.  "I do not care if he is a 'full grown wolf'.  There is a band of full grown wolves who obviously mean trouble.  It was reckless to go alone."  He made a disapproving growl, agitated.  The decision was obviously, in Dante's opinion, fueled by Casmir's condition and a desire for revenge.  They had gone after his children twice, so he failed to react rationally.  Would Dante be the same were he a parent?  He did not know.  But a leader did not have the luxury of making mistakes like that.

There is no dearth of capable leaders to take my place.  He presumed much, and it only drove the wedge deeper.  Dante had given Lasher the leadership in good faith because he truly felt, at the time, that it suited him.  Now Lasher had all but thrust it back should he not return, and Dante wondered if maybe it should not have been given in the first place.