Broken Antler Fen We don't need to be related to relate.

"Towhee - this is a decision that I cannot make alone," Wraen tried to make her friend see the point in her initial refusal. "I do not have that power - our members do, they collectively decide on, which direction they want the pack to go," she explained, not expecting that Towhee was going to listen now, hoping that she would think it through afterwards. "And have you asked your people, what they want to do? I mean, our way of governing is not for everyone. What if your mate or your packmates refuse to take care about any other children than his own. It is their right to do so, but not, when under someone else's rule," she pointed out. The split in Firebirds had happened not only because of alliance with Moonspear, but with the fact that Towhee and Niamh had excluded Wraen from decision-making process. Informed her after everything had been said and done. 

"How badly are you struggling, Towhee?" she decided to sniff out the situation first. "There are more ways to get out of this than just giving up and climbing under someone else's roof."