Swiftcurrent Creek soft buzz · pack meeting

AHHH. I wrote a LONG-ASS POST and then closed the browser. :'(

Edit: Just to clarify - Bazi is assuming things and exaggerating greatly here.

Bazi kept schtum. With every mention of Jace, loss burned hotly in her chest. Instinct to obey and selfish desired to advance fought side-by-side against Njal and Tuwawi's arguments, kicking up a storm behind her blue eyes. Out of everyone assembled here, they had known the pair best - but none present had known Jace and Ferdie as well as Bazi had. Jace had revealed his secret to her long before Fox, and Ferdie had shared her den since the beginning. Of them all, Bazi was the most likely to side with the departed.

But she didn't. "Ferdie deserved to leave," she told the three longest-serving wolves tightly, eyes flickering between their faces and the ground. The words rose like hot air in her throat, unstoppable and ever angrier. "I should have seen it - he hadn't been eating. At first, I thought he couldn't hunt, but he's been bringing Fox gifts. He started to get distant, anti-social - the last time I saw him at the den, just before the fight, he could barely string two words together. He was diseased. Something was rotting his mind." Bazi pulled a sharp breath of air into her lungs. The image of Jace and Ferdie - together - flashed on her retina, and the very thought made her lips twitch and put a twitch in her tail. "Ferdie attacked, Jace protected Nightingale, but if I hadn't sent them to Fox, he would've have kept Ferdie's secret." Here, she looked straight at Tuwawi. "He would have let Ferdie stay, and get sicker, and sicker. He was too -" In love? " -..dedicated to Ferdie." The beta's gaze floated back to Fox. "They had to go. Both of them."