Phoenix Maplewood Thinking 'bout the last time I saw you smiling

A characterfully honest creature in every way, Shreya had never had to suffer ramifications for such things, because she was elderly and had been the Alpha at her one and only pack. But she wasn't the Alpha any more. In fact, she was speaking to one. So there could be ramifications, and she didn't have her grandson around to protect her — she didn't know Saena, and this meant there was every chance there could be ramifications if she spoke her mind the way she normally did. And so she made a note to bite her tongue if anything too risqué sprang to mind.

She didn't believe that this skinny girl, who was as slim as a dryad despite her pregnancy, wasn't hungry in the physical sense, though she could believe that she'd convinced herself of it. Why? Depression, confusion, distraction, punishment...

How about we both eat, she suggested with a note of genuine warmth to her whistley voice. There's enough for the two of us.