Redhawk Caldera It's uphill for oddities

Āzon looked crushed about the mistake, and Ruenna was full of sympathy for him. She knew very well what that was like, trying so hard to be helpful and involved and yet feeling like every little mistake was so much more conspicuous. 

"Of course you didn't know," Ruenna comforted him. "She should have been accompanied." That led nicely in to an answer for Sphyra's question. 

"No Sphrya.. while Brecheliant are our allies, we don't have an open border policy," she replied. "An ally should stop at the border and identify themselves, and then they might request to come in if they have business here. From that point on they should be accompanied." She took a breath, and then repeated, "Bridget should have been accompanied when she was admitted." 

There were reasons that a guardian might have sent Bridget in on her own, certainly. But given the treatment the Bridget had received the last time she was here, Ruenna thought that it was poorly thought out (at best) to make the poor medic susceptible to such a reception again at the hands of the Redhawks. 

Āzon voiced aloud his desire to make things up to Brecheliant, and Ruenna sighed. That was a wish that weighed heavily on her heart as well, particularly because they seemed to keep digging their hole deeper where Brecheliant was concerned. It didn't help that Brech was becoming the refuge for all the wolves who had been mismanaged or wronged by the Redhawks.  

"Sphyra's right, Āzon, it was an easy mistake. You don't owe them anything. But I do want to find some way to improve pack relations. We keep stepping in it with Brecheliant." It felt like the weight of the world was on Ruenna's shoulders, but even so, she couldn't help a funny little memory that popped up when she said the phrase "stepping in it" to Āzon: the Ignis himself, standing in shit, sweating as he requested admission into the Caldera ranks. 

Ruenna's odd smile would probably seem out of place, since only she was privy to the amusing memory that had surfaced (which Zoo will never allow anyone to forget, ever). With a chuckle, she shook her head and bumped her shoulder amicably against Āzon.

"C'mon," she said to Sphyra, and Āzon if he was willing. "Let's go to the border and practice how to greet an ally." In case Sphyra needed any more temptation, she added, "We can also practice how to greet an enemy, if Āzon is willing to play the part of the intruder..." Rue lifted a brow, looking expectantly between the pair before they answered, and their little party moved elsewhere. 

Feel free to wrap things up, or we can let this be the fade.