Blacktail Deer Plateau For a minute

Edit on 8/23: I'm concluding this since Rina's been removed.

Although he intuited that Rina's advice came from a good place, he looked at her strangely. "My brother hit his head and is now mentally retarded. He was my Beta and on the verge of asking Blue Willow to be his mate," he said to shed light on the situation and his subsequent anguish over it. "This isn't going to 'even out in time.' And I could never think of casting out my brother. He would die." He looked at her plaintively.

She made another tentative attempt to counsel him, yet Peregrine simply wasn't in the mood for empty optimism. "I appreciate the effort, Rina," he told her after a few moments, "but there's really no consolation when it comes to this issue. I'm sorry but I'm going to go. Perhaps I will seek you out again when I'm in a better state of mind." He gave her a grim, apologetic look and then resumed his earlier brisk walk.