Sun Mote Copse And I'll hate myself for checking as if I don't know

She heard her name, and if it had been anyone but Eljay, they would have gotten a sharp WHAT!? in return.  Despite her seething rage, though, Eljay was the only wolf she literally could not blame right now.  

It's never going to work, she said, bitter anger making her turn to hopelessness.  Dramatic, but weirdly honest for her.  Eljay hadn't given her a reason not to trust him, though, and something about his manner made Fennec not feel like her usual walls were quite as necessary.  Maybe because he was always so hopeless himself.  No one here is ever going to think I can do anything.