Sun Mote Copse What a fool believes

He apologized, but she still did not feel that he understood to what extent she had truly believed that Nellie was gone. Why shouldn't she assume Nellie was dead? Why would she have run away on her own, that young? None of Nellie's reasons really made sense- but given the fact that she was a puppy, she could have been excused for making the wrong decision. She was a child. She hadn't been thoughtful enough to realize exactly how much it had hurt everyone else to lose not only Colt, but her too. She bared her teeth, slightly, at his insufficient apology. "What was I supposed to think, after my mate was attacked so savagely at the borders that he died days later?" She asked. "Of course I thought she was dead. Kidnapped, tortured, I don't know...And even if she had chosen to run off- she was too young to make it on her own unless someone took her in, and thankfully, they did." She said. It was fairly apparent that even then, she still held a grudge against the Frosthawks. Both Raven and Quixote had kept Nellie's secret too. "It's taken everything I have no to go straight to the Frosthawks and tear a strip off Raven and Quixote for not sending a message the minute she arrived." She grumbled. 

She wasn't about to take his offering of peace, either, and stepped back, shaking her head slightly. "I don't forgive you." She said. "I can forgive her for making a bad choice, 'cause she's a kid, and her Dad had just died...But you?" She asked, and shook her head, and exhaled sharply. "I appreciate that you respected my daughter's wishes. But as long as you still believe that you did the right thing, in keeping your promise to Nellie, rather than saving me from believing she was dead- I'll never forgive you."