Redsand Canyon Your boldness stands alone among the wreck

anger burns from him. match is dropped before it burns her, though the damage is well and truly done. good. a soft show of teeth from Derg, the meaning of which is clear. she'd accomplished what she'd wanted here. "coming in second isn't cruelty, Valour. you just failed to measure up." it was a tired argument, that he'd used time and again in an attempt to stop her rising in the ranks, and god forbid, above him. she'd addressed the fact that him helping her when they'd been pups did no mean she had any obligations to make his life easier for him. 

a dip of her muzzle toward donovan, a glance back toward derg, who seems to be attempting to draw submissiveness from the boy. she'd no desire to see how that might end, and so took her leave, retreating back along the borderline as she moved to begin a patrol.