Phoenix Maplewood Doomed or Saved

As Esaro launches into his explanation and Luke appears at her side, the Alpha female bristles. The longer the wolf speaks, the more indignant his leader becomes. She's given Esaro the benefit of the doubt in the past when his insistence on peace has come up in spite of how cruel reality is, but now she sees him for what he is: a daft fool. His explanation reveals that he has gone north, gone to the land of the Dragons, who are no longer sleeping, she's sure. The news of an alliance between the grotto and the volcano brings her heart plummeting into her stomach, but in spite of the dread this news brings, Saena's pale blue eyes harden like ice and she sets it aside for another time. Esaro's betrayal of his pack is much more pressing.

"Do you know what you've done?" she barks at him, cutting him off mid-sentence. "You've broken my law and brought war upon our heads with your foolish, babyish ideals. Your head is as empty as the god forsaken clouds. Even children aren't so dense as to ignore their Alpha's own word." Each point is spat out with a level of distaste she hasn't felt toward anyone but her ex-mate in a long while. Following orders was simply the life of a subordinate. Saena had explained to the pack her attempt to open the lands peacefully, and had explained how she was turned down. Her decision was made logically and out of necessity, and she finds it difficult to look upon Esaro as anything but a complete imbecile for testing the truth of her words, and his defiance of her law makes him untrustworthy and intolerable.

"You've doomed your kin. You are no Phoenix." She declares this coldly, and her muscles coil in anticipation of backing up her next statement with action: "Get out!" The lunge she makes for his throat is indicator enough that he is no longer welcome among the Phoenix wolves. He has endangered them all, including her vulnerable and innocent children. Esaro is no longer harmless in his naivety; by dooming the Phoenix pack to flee or fight as he has, he has proven that of all the threats facing them, those from the inside are the most insidious, and Saena is determined to purge them all.