Sun Mote Copse time is a revelator;

She glanced away as he spoke, though not long enough to miss more than a word or two. It was easy enough to stitch the rest of it together to form a context. It kind of surprised her, how genuinely regretful he looked. She stared at him, realizing she felt a kind of remorse too. And it had nothing to do with the alliance she'd struck with Moonspear, the very same that had led to this unraveling of half the pack.

-"Are you in love with her?"- Towhee asked bluntly. It made sense that Maia would want to go with her sister but why had Towhee immediately guessed he would go too? She had pressed Wraen gently on this point a time or two in the past, especially considering her own history with him, but never before had she actually asked him. And, well, it was now or never.