New Blood in The War for Power

I promise it won't take this long to post again, things have been hectic and I've just gotten free time the last couple days (and then got a tuberculosis test injection yesterday that laid me flat out for the evening)!

To say Jinx was impressed with what Lunar offered was an understatement. Rarely did she come across such straightforward individuals who knew exactly what words to say. She had met many leaders in her life, and they all seemed to preach the same values: honesty, hard work, dedication, and the like. Jinx had always viewed this preaching as something to cover up the true nature of leadership, which was ambition. Leaders did not become leaders because they thought they could make the world a better place by doing so. Leaders became leaders for the power of leadership.

Such was her opinion, anyway. Lunar claimed to be capable of befriending others and weeding information out of them, which was something that Jinx herself was terrible at. She sought to weed information through means of force. It wasn't necessarily an evil trait but it wasn't an attractive one, either. She could see the value in having someone who was more like a spy or a double agent.

But naturally that brought with it its due amount of distrust, evidence in the Alpha female shifting herself as though fidgeting slightly. “An excellent skill,” she observed, ”but I am... Concerned. How can I be assured you have not promised the same to another leader in the land, and are playing us all for fools? How do I know you are not befriending me for the same reason you say you would befriend our joint enemies?” In as much as she could be gentle, the woman said this gently. She didn't want to distrust Lunar, but being a double agent brought with it a double-edged sword. Perhaps Lunar was a friend to Silvertip Mountain and sought to spy on other packs... Or perhaps she was a friend to another pack and was trying to befriend Silvertip. It was difficult to say.