Blackfeather Woods only a madman likes the pain

"They said that he was a threat to the pack for impregnating a wolf from outside of Blackfeather Woods and bringing her here." He did not mention the breech of the tennets, for they meant relatively little to him. The faith had never been his prime thing, even though he filled in a lot of the things Mephala stood for without trying. But he did not feel that information'd be of any use to Kendra, especially because it had been used as an excuse to grab for power and kick Burke out themselves.

Cicero smiled sadly when Kendra said that her heart was not in the pack. He knew the feeling, and he understood, but he had little words of consolation to offer. It wasn't like he had a button that he could press that'd make everything better, that'd make her care for the pack once more. He eventually said: "Cicero can teach Kendra about pain, if she brings him a deserving victim." Or they could find one together, he added silently, but the smile he offered her said as much. He hoped she would pick up on the context of that, but that at least him offering to teach her something she held interest in was a bridge throw towards her, a distance breached.