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Wraen wished she could tell Bronco about, what had happened in the aftermath of Colt's fight with Kiwi, but knew that this was not the right time to show her vulnerability, her own doubts about her actions. Niamh's son looked up to her, but he would not understand, why she had let Wildfire's daughter go, especially since, she herself did not have all the answers. Had the old Blackthorn not have died - perhaps, things could have turned out differently. Had she approached him sooner about this - who knew, where she would have been now. Things were, what they were. They were crap, to be honest. 

But, what struck her the most, was that Bronco was not asking her for truth, he thought that his inability to murder was a weakness. He was conflicted between, who he was and what he thought his mother wished him to be. Tough, strong, just like her, but did he really believe that even Niamh was so invincible? It probably had to do with him being still very much an inexperienced young person in adult wolf's body. He had not outgrown yet the phase, where he idolized his parents, where they could not do anything wrong. It would take a lot more time to grow up and for him to realize that even his mother was just a wolf being, that she had her flaws and she was not always right. 

In just another flash of clarity, she realized that Bronco was very much like Arcturus in that way. The latter too had believed that he had to live up to the expectations of his dead parents and ideals of Moonspear. Now he was healing and had still not yet recovered. The two would have a lot to discuss, even if they came from two very different backgrounds. "Bronco, I think it will help you a great deal in the future, if you understand now that you do not have to live up to anyone's ideas of who you should be," Wraen began. "If your mom elects to kill - that is her choice, but not the absolute truth. If you choose to act on, what feels fundamentally right to you, there is no shame in taking that route. Regardless of, what others might think of you," perhaps this would be her answer to the "Why?" of the whole Kiwi situation. 

"Finding your way life is neither easy, nor straightforward. There are far more shades of gray than blacks and whites. And - yes - you will come in conflict with many people for following, what you believed to be the right thing, but stand your ground and do not let anyone push you into doing something that you do not wish to do," Wraen said. "Do not believe for a second that taking a life of another sentient being will leave you unchanged. Even if the death sentence was justified, you will have that person's life on your conscience. It will ghost you. There are other ways of punishment, murder should never be the first option."