Cedar Sweep I dropped the berry in a stream

Saena expected Ragna's reason to be something easily predicted by a leader: she needed a home. Their ideals aligned with her ideals. They were in need of the skills she offered. These were all valid reasons to join up with a given pack, thought Saena, and these were the sort of response she was expecting to receive. Instead, Ragna merely claimed that the Malkaria were accepting, leaving Saena to wonder just what that was supposed to mean.

"Are other packs not accepting?" she wondered. Silver Creek was not an accepting pack, at least not under her rule, but with Spring's softer form of leadership, she would no longer claim that it was exclusive and picky. And Silver Creek was an outlier. In Saena's experience, most packs were accepting of their members, so that being a reason for joining went over her head, as did the possibility that Ragna had something special about her that required accepting in the first place.