Blackfeather Woods You thought I'd just abandon you?

Burke looked at Potema with that same stict but dissapointing gaze. "I want to, Potema. I want to," he spoke. For Burke this was not complicated at all, and Malice was not going to replace Meldresi because she was so different from the previous queen. "She is here for me. Not for you, for me. I am not sure what I am feeling towards her but for once I choose for myself instead of every selfless act I did for this pack," Burke spoke to Potema.

Her thread that this would not end well was not something he would want to disregard. He knew how dangerous the spiderlings could be, but he was not going to allow Malice being hurt. That was not how their pack worked. "If you don't care what she means to me but you want to hurt her then you might want to think harder. Would you really want to hurt me so badly because of your harted towards this female? Don't you think I already had enough of hardship to endure?," he questioned her. He saw Potema as his own daughter and would never wish ill towards her as she just did in his eyes.