Overture Downs We operate under

Arbiter's arguments were good, but they did not convince Sarah. Everyone had to take care of themselves first no matter, whether they were in a pack or not. She saw no harm on focussing on small game, especially in regards of growing children. Adults might wish to pamper and shelter them, but the sooner they learned that life was neither fair, nor easy, the better. Lesson of hunger was one of the most fundamental ones to set one's priorities straight and see the harsh face of the survival. 

But they would not agree on this matter, because their respective experiences were very different. Each were right in their own way, but each refused to meet the other half-way. So Sarah focussed on the answer to her initial question. What had Terance and Arbiter to offer? "Hard to meet all those wants, don't you think?" she remarked quietly, because it was too much of a general description and far less of an actual contract between two people that discussed real and achievable things.

"Loyalty is too much of an inconsistent thing to barter on. In the end the only person one is loyal to, is themselves," she told her. "Even those, who believe themselves to be fiercely loyal to another person can make grave mistakes that shake that trust," she thought about her own flight one year ago. "And you have to be far more convincing to make those people want to stay. Loyalty is not born in one day, it appears over time. Or it doesn't," she mused.