Overture Downs We operate under

Mmm, you underestimate how much those growing monsters eat.  And yet most of the ones we've lost left well before then.  So unless you're insinuating they can tell the future, that isn't the case.  Sure, there were probably worse times ahead, but those who left in the early days were certainly weak willed if they were bailing right now.  It was better they were gone, if so.

She seemed to have a different ideal than Arbiter -- or at least desire to plan ahead.  She would not surrender to tough times, nor would she let random encounters escape, that just wasn't her. And if you just want to hunt rabbits, any lone can do that, but they won't last forever in this season if all of us hunt them.  If we bother to be in packs, then we need to take the chances when they appear so that more than one or two can eat per kill.  I don't ask for ten additional wolves, I ask for a couple so we can continue to hunt and protect our territory from those who might be far more desperate.  There was more at stake than just short term food.  Their pack was supposed to be strong.

What was with Sarah right now? Lecturing her or just wanting everything to go wrong, Arbiter wasn't sure which, or which was worse.  She had thought they had a sort of understanding.  Apparently not.  Arbiter assumed that it was obvious that any pack provided security and that sort of thing, so she spoke more precisely, I make sure that my wolves get what they want in exchange for their loyalty, unlike some. Rannoch. Hard to make good on that when you don't answer.