Moonspear And into the fire we go

The touch did help, but it may have been better to leave her feeling anxious and afraid rather than more comfortable sharing her anxiety and bitterness with him. She knew her feelings were safe with him, but they were not safe in the open air of the pack's territory. But it's okay, she was whispering.

"How do you know?" Liffey challenged him, still unwilling to believe that her family would have just abandoned Gannet like this without reason, "Has anyone even really told them what happened?" It was her paranoia speaking again, and her mistrust. She didn't have any faith that the Caldera had been giving the real story, especially not if it had been left to the Cerberus to send the message. Not for the first time, she felt a pang of guilt for not going to the Caldera herself. They couldn't know the whole story. They couldn't know just how serious the situation was.

She looked sadly at her friend. She had no response for his leg, for she had no real reason to doubt Lyra's diagnosis except for the little voice in her head that said the dark sisters were all manipulative liars. Truth be told, they were the whole problem here. She trusted everyone else, including Charon. She adored their father! But not them. Never them. She couldn't clearly even define why. Except for her very first experience with them, things had been quiet as she went about her day avoiding them and they - presumably - did the same to her. But she couldn't shake the way they had looked at her when she'd reunited with Rannoch. It was a look fueled by emotion not soon forgotten, and she wouldn't soon forget it either.

Plus, there was the possessive way the one (she still didn't know which) had spoken of Rannoch. No way in hell Liffey would ever let that one go.

She smiled faintly at his mention of her being in Moonspear, though she was still concerned about all of this. It didn't occur to her that he might doubt her affection for him - the idea was too unthinkable. In any other situation, she would have been thrilled for them to share ranks in the same pack again. But not this one... Not at the moment, anyway. "Did they say how you're supposed to regain their trust?" she asked, still bothered by that point.