Moonspear tremble

Arcturus seemed happy at first and then deflated again at the unpopular lesson. Charon liked this phase because children were malleable yet already grown and useful for the pack, but he hated it because they tended to get moody quicker and were often arrogant (he didn't really realise that this latter thing may just be a side-effect of his superb parenting skills). Arcturus was suffering from much the same, thinking he should -- and naïvely thinking he could -- protect everyone all the time.

Well, it was never too early to learn that life wasn't fair like that. "I didn't say you can't protect anyone -- just not everyone all at once. You can't be everywhere at once, can you? So you can't be there to make sure nobody you love gets hurt, ever, because you can't be with all of them, all the time." Charon looked at Arcturus, hoping the words would hit home at least a little bit.