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"I have to," she told her mate when he expressed his concerns. Saena was no stranger to being injured—hell, it was basically a permanent state for her lately—but this time she had no intentions of wandering off alone. She would have back up and the chances of being hurt were slim to none, unless Aaron had amassed a following larger than their own. She thought that unlikely, given it had only been a handful of days since she'd discovered him, and he had been alone then.

"I will look weak if I threaten him and then don't show," she quietly pointed out, "and I most certainly am not that." With a flick of her ears she settled the conversation, but favoured Reek with a brush of her muzzle under his own and bid him to, "stop worrying so much," before padding between two trees toward the river with a silent invitation for him to join her if he wished to.