Rising Sun Valley the knife's edge

Bazi sniffled loudly. Not kind? She supposed that Fox was easily misunderstood - if you had absolutely no skin on your nose. She was a no-nonsense girl, and Ferdie was ... soft. A sensitive soul. A kind wolf, she thought, feeling the brief warmth of a pleasant memory - Ferdie grooming everything in sight, Ferdie asleep in their shared den.

But she didn't trust him now. He had concealed whatever ailed him, and if he was a good leader now, that did not make up for it.

"I don't trust him," Bazi murmured, frowning hard at the words. "I just don't trust him. He didn't.. say anything. Do you know what happened? Why he went crazy? I have been wondering about it, and.. he told me that he'd been an Alpha before. Remember that story he told us, when you tried to get him to fish? I wonder if that was him, in the story, that got his heart broken by a cruel queen. I wonder if that cut him so deep that he isn't.. in control of himself when he feels hurt." Her eyes strayed back to Jace's dark face. A grim expression settled on her girlish features. "And you can't go through life expecting not to get your feelings hurt."