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Pura said she could choose whether to be sad or not. Saēna thought it was the more acceptable option to be sad, but try as she might, the girl could summon no ounce of sorrow for her dead mother. She had never met her dam, after all, and couldn't have been expected to know a feeling of loss for that. Hawkeye was the closest that Saēna had to a mother... But they spent little time together nowadays.

“I don't want to be,” she decided with a note of finality. She would never be sad again, at least if she could choose it, like Pura said. He went on to say "they" didn't like it when someone wasn't sad, and this made the youth frown. “Why not?” she asked, hoping her brother would know the answers to that ever-important question. It seemed to her that "they" should want the pups to be happy rather than sad.