Dragoncrest Cliffs is the fairest thing on the black earth,

It was good for Chacal to hear, directly from her mother, what her reasons were behind the decisions she had made. Erzulie was an excellent communicator, and no matter how much Chacal's hormones made her want to feel betrayed and belittled, she couldn't exactly fault her mother for wanting to keep her safe. Considering all that had happened, and all the wolves they had lost recently, her mother had done everything she could to keep going and keep the pack together, uniting it so that they might weather their losses. She confessed that sheltering Chacal was her fault, which made her feel better. So she nodded- giving her mother a bit of forgiveness, though she still felt that apologizing wasn't quite enough. She wanted things to be fixed, too. 

Stubbornly, she still refused to believe that a swimming competition was enough to decide which among them was fit to be a leader, and she found that incredibly frustrating. The ocean was lovely- but it was not a living thing that she felt was capable of deciding a wolf's worth. So she shook her head again; the notion of leaving a political decision to something as wild and reckless as the ocean? It didn't make any sense to her. She sighed. Her mother declared her to be unfit to be the Ruby, which wounded her. Would her mother force Valravn to swim, then, if he too wanted to succeed? And what if the sea deemed him unworthy and drowned him- was it worth risking the life of one of their packmates when they had already lost so many? 

She had so much to say, and she disagreed with her mother on the validity of using the Seafoam Run as a means to choose a leader. But she couldn't say it, nor would she simply bend to her mother's will, and participate in something she didn't believe in. She cast her golden gaze out into the distance and huffed a sigh. It didn't seem like she'd be able to do much in order to explain her point of view, with the exception of continuously refusing to take part in their trial, in the hopes her mothers would reconsider its worth.