Lion Head Mesa prolixus

"the pharaoh named crowfeather royal chief physician. he will give you a title and you will want for little here.
but you will exist in a world like no other, where your rank is determined by how much you gratify royal creatures." Slate knew it had to be true. She didn't know the pharaoh, nor did she know of the insides of Akashingo, if there was any kind of intrigue between the pharaoh and the queen, this would have been new to Slate. She didn't exactly understand what Germanicus meant with his words but she thought that asking was better than imagining something.

"I haven't been in a pack before. But isn't it like that everywhere? Ursus doesn't strike me as any better in that regard." Was there something Slate was missing? She looked at Crowfeather who was beginning to move around. Slate rose from her position and began finding the plants needed for her remedies and began chewing them to mix them. It was the best she could offer against the pain he was in, but she knew them to be effective, might even be the reason he was constantly asleep.

She looked at Germanicus again as she spit out the mix and then spoke again while she worked. "Merrick. He scares me. I followed him thinking he could protect me, but sometimes I feel like I need protection from him instead." She shrugged lightly at that, not sure how else to explain that eerie feeling she around him. She gently put her mixture toward Crowfeather's mouth for him to eat it and she was very focused on the task at hand but listened to Germanicus if he spoke.

"I've tried joining different packs over the years. Ursus was the first place to accept me. I am not sure I could go anywhere else even if I wanted to." She looked up at Germanicus and then she shook her head. She had broken ties with packs over the years and now she felt lost. Akashingo was maybe the place she belonged, but she had also told Merrick she would follow him. It felt like a promise, even if the man scared her. A promise she didn't like to find herself on the end of breaking.