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The idea that things weren't black and white- and that 'an eye for an eye' or in this case, a 'life for a life' wasn't necessarily the only option. He didn't want to kill Kiwi- but he did believe she ought to be punished for what she'd done, and getting away with her life...He didn't see that as being punishment. Survival was a reward she'd been given- of course, he believed her survival had been due to some sort of fate, not knowing that his own packmates had found her shortly after she'd attacked Colt...And had not simply killed her then. 

He didn't like the idea of Kiwi and his mother fighting to the death, because he believed that Kiwi's life was something she owed to his mother...To their whole family. She had taken something away from them that had been so important and beloved- and he felt that she should lose the same, though he wouldn't have condemned one of Kiwi's innocent relatives to death in order to punish her. It likely would have been effective- and Niamh had, in fact, threatened Bat when she'd showed up, as the two were sisters. He didn't believe that Niamh should risk her life just to get revenge- and he knew that if Niamh did decide to take her revenge, she wouldn't be taking it alone. 

"I...I couldn't let Ma fight her alone." He said. "And I know Mom would wanna kill her on sight. But I couldn't let her do it alone." He admitted. "Not because I want revenge...Nothing like that. I just...I'd just wanna make sure that Mom didn't get..." Say Kiwi managed to best his mother- then he would have lost two wolves to brutal murder. He shook his head. "It's just so stupid." He said, brow furrowed. 

He contemplated for a moment, and couldn't make sense of it. "Why'd Kiwi kill him? Like...And does running away make her a coward?" He asked. He'd used Wraen's advice- and had sought to find an answer, rather than simply making an emotional decision, and he looked to her for her insight. While it was a terribly difficult subject, it was a lot easier to talk to Wraen about his father's death, and the woman who murdered him, than it was to talk about with his mother.